Couldn't this problem actually be solved by actually just expanding the truncate_words syntax? instead of just allowing :"nr_of_words" to something like 'count[cw],ellipsis'. e.g. '10c,...' actually meaning cut after 10 characters instead of words, of course always rounded up or down for the last word so we don't end in the middle, and finally having a 3-dot ellipsis. This can be done perfectly backwards-compatible as far as I know and doesn't flood the namespace with dozens of filters with similar functionality. Adding truncate now would mean a 3th filter that does more or less the same (and then I even don't count slice), which in my opinion is only even more confusing.
I'm also no big fan of putting this logic into templates anyway, I think too many people use views just as a passthrough for object managers and do the real data transform for viewing in the template, which isn't the purpose of a template language. In general I am even against many of the already included filters, so for me adding a new filter is certainly vote -1. 2009/12/30 Sean Brant <brant.s...@gmail.com> > The last thing that needs to happen is bulling this into core. It's no > good for the community and that could be part of the perceived > perceptions problem. Just because enough people bitch does not mean > that its a good thing. With that said the reason behind the ticket > being closed no longer seems valid. > > A template filter for shortening a string seems like a logical > addition to truncatewords. At the very least reassessing the ticket > status might be a good start. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
