Thanks for the encouragement, Alex. This was so easy, it should be a first lesson in how to write a custom tag. It took about 15 minutes and worked the first time!
from django import template register = template.Library() @register.tag(name="eval") def do_eval(parser, token): try: tagName, variableName = token.split_contents() except ValueError: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("%r requires a single argument: the name of the variable to evaluate as the body of a template" % tagName) return EvalNode(variableName) class EvalNode(template.Node): def __init__(self, variableName): self.variableName = variableName def render(self, context): t = template.Template(context[self.variableName]) return t.render(context) On Jul 4, 5:51 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think it would be difficult to implement, either as a block > tag, or as a regular tag with context. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---