Ok, well just thought maybe I was missing some  python builtin or
django method that others were using.  Looks like it's just something
that needs be coded up and encapsulated.

Thanks for your comments!

Margie

On Dec 21, 2:03 pm, Kieran Brownlees <kbrownl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not very practical but fun to make and good for wtf moments when
> reading old code :)
>
> self.attrs['class'] = ' '.join([x for x in self.attr.get('class') and
> self.attr['class'].split(' ') or []] + [self.pastClass])
>
> Could make it a little shorter with two lines:
> e, a, p = self.attrs.get('class'), self.attrs, self.pastClass
> a['class'] = ' '.join([x for x in e and e.split(' ') or []] + [p])
>
> Could fit the final version in with three tabs and it's only 79 chars!
>
> Kieran
>
> On Dec 22, 10:32 am, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a variety of places in my code where I add a class to a
> > widget.  For example, I have a render() function for a DateWidget that
> > contains this code, which adds a special class if the date is in the
> > past.
>
> >                 if date < datetime.datetime.now():
> >                     if self.attrs.get("class"):
> >                         self.attrs["class"] += " " + self.pastClass
> >                     else:
> >                         self.attrs["class"] = self.pastClass
>
> > This checks if there's already a class attribute and if there is,
> > appends a space and then the string in self.pastClass, and if tehre is
> > not, just creates the class attribute containing self.pastClass.
>
> > This seems like a lot of code to do something really simple and I feel
> > like I'm repeating it in various places.  I'm wondering if there is
> > some better way that folks deal with this little nit?
>
> > Margie

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