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Plural templatetags if quantity > 1: return single else return plural

Author:
Natim
Posted:
December 7, 2009
Language:
HTML/template
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Regarding to a quantity, use the singular or the plural in two distincts template variables.

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Usage: {% plural quantity name_singular name_plural %}

This simple version only works with template variable since we will use blocktrans for strings.
"""

from django import template

register = template.Library()

class PluralNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, quantity, single, plural):
        self.quantity = template.Variable(quantity)
        self.single = template.Variable(single)
        self.plural = template.Variable(plural)

    def render(self, context):
        if self.quantity.resolve(context) > 1:
            return u'%s' % self.plural.resolve(context)
        else:
            return u'%s' % self.single.resolve(context)

@register.tag(name="plural")
def do_plural(parser, token):
    try:
        # split_contents() knows not to split quoted strings.
        tag_name, quantity, single, plural = token.split_contents()
    except ValueError:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "%r tag requires exactly three arguments" % token.contents.split()[0]

    return PluralNode(quantity, single, plural)

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Comments

jdunck (on December 8, 2009):

What does this do that the pluralize filter doesn't?

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