Absolutize filter

[selectnull]

I've added absolutize as filter along with template tags. README has been updated with examples and reason why sometimes filter works where tag doesn't.

[acatton]

Good catch @selectnull !

I don't see any reason why absolutize should be tag and not a filter. Could you add a deprecation warning on the tag. We will remove it in the future.

Thanks ;) .

[selectnull]

Actually, I'm against deprecating absolutize as a tag. What's more, I would propose that it be extended to support as tags, eg:

{% absolutize someobject.get_absolute_url as url %}

and then you can use url as variable.

[selectnull]

Anyway, it works both as tag and filter, why deprecate it? :)

[acatton]

@selectnull The zen of python says There should be one – and preferably only one – obvious way to do it.

• If you have a tag and a filter, now there are two ways to do the same thing.
• One of them should go away
• The filter works everywhere in {% if url|absolutize %} and so on...
• Why not remove the tag, it doesn't add any value whatsoever?

[acatton]

See e61be2b

[selectnull]

@acatton What about One shall not break backward compatibility when software version is greater than 1

Oh wait, Python 3... ;)

Never mind, since you've already decided, it's ok. When do you plan to upload to pypi?

[acatton]

@selectnull for now can you install from source. We might do a new release within the next month.

Thanks.