From 496dbed960f5f5821326c550debc368a14f52c95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sametmax <lesametlemax@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:09:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Adding a getattr template tag

---
 django_quicky/templatetags/__init__.py      |  4 ++
 django_quicky/templatetags/introspection.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 django_quicky/templatetags/__init__.py
 create mode 100755 django_quicky/templatetags/introspection.py

diff --git a/django_quicky/templatetags/__init__.py b/django_quicky/templatetags/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00d8466
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_quicky/templatetags/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# vim: ai ts=4 sts=4 et sw=4 nu
+
diff --git a/django_quicky/templatetags/introspection.py b/django_quicky/templatetags/introspection.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2ce4145
--- /dev/null
+++ b/django_quicky/templatetags/introspection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# vim: ai ts=4 sts=4 et sw=4 nu
+
+"""
+    Tag to use python introspection in a Django template
+"""
+
+from django import template
+register = template.Library()
+
+
+@register.filter
+def getattr(obj, args):
+    """ 
+        Try to get an attribute from an object.
+
+        Example: {% if block|getattr:"editable,True" %}
+
+        Beware that the default is always a string, if you want this
+        to return False, pass an empty second argument:
+
+        {% if block|getattr:"editable," %}
+
+        Source: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/38/
+    """
+    try:
+        args = args.split(',')
+    except AttributeError:
+        raise AttributeError(('"%s" is not a proper value the "getattr" '
+                              'filter applied to "%s"') % (args, obj))
+
+    if len(args) == 1:
+        (attribute, default) = [args[0], ''] 
+    else:
+        (attribute, default) = args
+
+    try:
+        return obj.__getattribute__(attribute)
+    except AttributeError:
+         return  obj.__dict__.get(attribute, default)
+    except:
+        return default
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