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My duh moment - Django and it’s lack of strip filter

Thursday | August 30, 2007 | 5:35 pm  

Had a total ‘duh’ moment today at work. I wanted to per­form the equiv­a­lent of Python’s string.strip method on some Django tem­plate output.

I looked on the Django doc­u­men­ta­tion site but I couldn’t find a strip filter.

It took me a few min­utes of con­ster­na­tion to figure why the devel­op­ers wouldn’t include such an oft-​needed filter.

And then, the afore­men­tioned duh moment, I real­ized that I could just call {% myvar.strip %} — because my output is a string and you can use Django’s dot syntax to call meth­ods, dic­tio­nary keys, etc.

Duh, I’m a moron.

So this post is writ­ten for Google in the hopes that some­one else sim­i­larly con­ster­nated will find this tidbit and be un-​consternated.

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