On 3/13/06, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 23:17 -0500, Waylan Limberg wrote:
> > I'm trying to format my dates with escaped characters in the format.
> > However, I can only seem to get them to work with the 'now' template
> > tag, but not the 'date' filter. Some examples:
> >
> > {% now "jS o\f F" %}
> >
> > will return '13th of March' as it should. But if I do this in the template:
> >
> > {{ post.pub_date|date:"jS o\f F" }}
> >
> > I get '13th o9:54 March' instead.
>
> OK, that's a bug. The problem is that django,util,dateformat.format is
> being passed the format string with the backslash already removed. Not
> sure why that is happening yet, but it's a real bug.
>
> I am not going to have time to look at it this afternoon, so you should
> probably open a ticket for it so that we don't lose the problem report.
Wow! I found a "real bug". Anyway, submitted as Ticket #1498.
>
> > from the shell:
> > >>> from django.utils.dateformat import *
> > >>> from datetime import datetime
> > >>> d = datetime.now()
> > >>> df = DateFormat(d)
> > >>> print df.format('jS o\f F')
> > 13th o March
> > >>> df.format('jS o\f F')
> > '13th o\x0c March'
>
> This one is all your own doing. :-)
>
> Remember that Python will do the first pass of backslash-removals first,
> before it gets to your function call. And '\f' is the form-feed
> character (ASCII code 12), just like \n is newline and \t is tab. If you
> want to pass in the two character '\' and 'f', you either need to use
> raw strings -- r'jS o\f F' -- or escape the backslash -- 'jS o\\f S' --
> when trying to construct the string in Python.
Doh! My bad.
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