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@@ -642,7 +642,23 @@ your function. Example::
"Converts a string into all lowercase"
return value.lower()
-When you've written your filter definition, you need to register it with
+Template filters which 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::
+
+ from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
+
+ @stringfilter
+ def lower(value):
+ return value.lower()
+
+Registering a custom filters
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Once you've written your filter definition, you need to register it with
your ``Library`` instance, to make it available to Django's template language::
register.filter('cut', cut)
@@ -658,28 +674,18 @@ If you're using Python 2.4 or above, you can use ``register.filter()`` as a
decorator instead::
@register.filter(name='cut')
+ @stringfilter
def cut(value, arg):
return value.replace(arg, '')
@register.filter
+ @stringfilter
def lower(value):
return value.lower()
If you leave off the ``name`` argument, as in the second example above, Django
will use the function's name as the filter name.
-Template filters which expect strings
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-If you are writing a template filter which only expects a string as the first
-argument, you should use the included decorator ``stringfilter`` which will convert
-an object to it's string value before being passed to your function::
-
- from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
-
- @stringfilter
- def lower(value):
- return value.lower()
-
Writing custom template tags
----------------------------