From e86d35879fa7b111d271dfab393a7691b90fca6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Holovaty Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:04:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Edited docs/templates_python.txt change from [6143] git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6159 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/templates_python.txt | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/templates_python.txt b/docs/templates_python.txt index 150aa70fdf..3399639611 100644 --- a/docs/templates_python.txt +++ b/docs/templates_python.txt @@ -642,12 +642,12 @@ your function. Example:: "Converts a string into all lowercase" return value.lower() -Template filters which expect strings -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Template filters that expect strings +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -If you're writing a template filter which only expects a string as the first -argument, you should use the included decorator ``stringfilter``. This will -convert an object to it's string value before being passed to your function:: +If you're writing a template filter that only expects a string as the first +argument, you should use the decorator ``stringfilter``. This will +convert an object to its string value before being passed to your function:: from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter @@ -655,6 +655,10 @@ convert an object to it's string value before being passed to your function:: def lower(value): return value.lower() +This way, you'll be able to pass, say, an integer to this filter, and it +won't cause an ``AttributeError`` (because integers don't have ``lower()`` +methods). + Registering a custom filters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~