On 4/5/19 3:06 AM, Collin Anderson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I use django templates a lot and I always wished there was a
> myvar|startswith:"teststring", myvar|endswith:"teststring" and a
> myvar|contains:"teststring" filter.
It's almost like we need a syntax for calling methods with an argument,
just like we can with filters.
For example (bring on the sheds for bikes!)
{{ myvar.startswith<"teststring" }}
> I instead do stuff like myvar|slice:":10" == "teststring" which is a
> total hack.
>
> Is this something that could be simple and common enough to add to
> django as batteries-included built-in?
Alternatively, I recall some time in the past I may have written a
"strings" template filter library simply to provide string methods as
filters...
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Curtis