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diff --git a/docs/templates_python.txt b/docs/templates_python.txt index 43ef016ed4..a03ea215d2 100644 --- a/docs/templates_python.txt +++ b/docs/templates_python.txt @@ -1059,8 +1059,8 @@ Passing template variables to the tag Although you can pass any number of arguments to a template tag using ``token.split_contents()``, the arguments are all unpacked as -string literals. A little more work is required in order to dynamic content (a -template variable) to a template tag as an argument. +string literals. A little more work is required in order to pass dynamic +content (a template variable) to a template tag as an argument. While the previous examples have formatted the current time into a string and returned the string, suppose you wanted to pass in a ``DateTimeField`` from an @@ -1169,10 +1169,11 @@ Our earlier ``current_time`` function could thus be written like this:: In Python 2.4, the decorator syntax also works:: @register.simple_tag - def current_time(token): + def current_time(format_string): ... A couple of things to note about the ``simple_tag`` helper function: + * Checking for the required number of arguments, etc, has already been done by the time our function is called, so we don't need to do that. * The quotes around the argument (if any) have already been stripped away, |