Clarify in docs that filters don't work in ifequal

[jogwen]

Can you please make it a bit more explicit in ​http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/ref/templates/builtins/#ifequal that ifequal cannot evaluate its arguments - I just wasted several hours (and created several custom filters) trying to work out why

ifequal request.GET.ds_doc_type type.id|toUnicode

always evaluates to False when

{{request.GET.ds_doc_type}}({{request.GET.ds_doc_type|getType}})
and
{{type.id|toUnicode}}({{type.id|toUnicode|getType}})

looked identical when rendered to the screen.

I've now written a custom filter to do the equality check and am using it in an 'if' which seems to work ok.

Many Thanks,

Jo

[Luke Plant]

The 1.0 branch is no longer receiving bugfixes (and that includes documentation). Why not use Django 1.2? Then you can do:

{% if request.GET.ds_doc_type == type.id|toUnicode %}

which will do what you want.