Hi all,
I needed a nice way of saying "mike's friends" in a template when the
currently logged in user was "mike", but "james' friends" when it was
james. I realise this is a very English biased filter, but here's a
patch to add it to defaultfilters in template.
Cheers,
MikeH
--- django0.96/template/defaultfilters.py 2007-03-10
08:11:28.000000000 +0000
+++ django/template/defaultfilters.py 2007-06-17 20:02:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -551,6 +551,15 @@
pass
return singular_suffix
+def possesive(value):
+ """
+ Returns a possesive form of a name according to English rules
+ Mike returns Mike's, while James returns James'
+ """
+ if value[-1] == 's':
+ return "%s'" % value
+ return "%s's" % value
+
def phone2numeric(value):
"Takes a phone number and converts it in to its numerical equivalent"
from django.utils.text import phone2numeric
@@ -593,6 +602,7 @@
register.filter(make_list)
register.filter(phone2numeric)
register.filter(pluralize)
+register.filter(possesive)
register.filter(pprint)
register.filter(removetags)
register.filter(random)
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