Daniel Roseman wrote: > It's an intentional limitation of the template language that you can't > do that. You'll need to write a custom tag or filter - luckily it can > be done very trivially as a filter: > > @register.filter > def get_attr(obj, val) > return getattr(obj, val) > > Now in the template: > > {{ object|getattr:name }}
I agree that it doesn't belong in the template language, but it's surprising that there's no standard filter to do this... Is there an open issue for this or should I raise one? Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Batch Processing & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---