On Jun 20, 8:50 am, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess it was a little confusing how I formulated my problem. I just
> try again. Sorry for that.
>
> In Python what I want to do would look like the following:
> """"
> item1 = '/test/something/'
> item2 = '/test/somethingelse/'
> """"
> if item2.startswith(item1):
> do_the_trick()
>
> Now since Django has this nice template language I need to do
> something like that:
> {% ifstartswith item2 item1 %}
> ...do the trick
> {% endifstartswith %}
>
> is that possible?
No, you can't do that with the basic template language - it's
deliberately restricted to a few common operations. However you can
very easily define a custom template filter to do this. In your
application directory, create a subdirectory called templatetags and
put in a blank __init__.py and a file called (eg) mytags.py containing
something like:
from django import template
register = template.Library()
@register.filter
def startswith(val1, val2)
return val1.startswith(val2)
Then in your template:
{% load mytags %}
{% if item1|startswith:item2 %}
...
{% endif %}
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