templatefilter "make_list" should receive a optional split variable

[Maxim Danilov]

for use in template, for example:
not only

{% with my_list='i#am#stupid#user'|make_list %}
# my_list=['i','#','a','m','#','s','t','u','p','i','d','#','u','s','e','r']

......

it should to work too:

{% with my_list='i#am#stupid#user'|make_list:'#' %}
# my_list=['i','am','stupid','user']

......

[Tim Graham]

I'm on the fence. While I see the value, I'm not sure that promoting more logic in templates in a good idea. It's fairly easy to write a custom filter (I would call it "split") which I think would be more readable.

[Jeff]

I feel somewhat ambivalent about this as well. If we decide to add the split feature, would it make more sense to add a new tag "split" instead of changing the behavior or "make_list" Do we want to add this at all?

Replying to Tim Graham:

I'm on the fence. While I see the value, I'm not sure that promoting more logic in templates in a good idea. It's fairly easy to write a custom filter (I would call it "split") which I think would be more readable.

[Jeff]

I feel somewhat ambivalent about this as well. If we decide to add the split feature, would it make more sense to add a new tag "split" instead of changing the behavior of "make_list". Do we want to add this at all?

Replying to Tim Graham:

I'm on the fence. While I see the value, I'm not sure that promoting more logic in templates in a good idea. It's fairly easy to write a custom filter (I would call it "split") which I think would be more readable.

[Kamil]

If we decide to do it, I will be happy to do it.

[Ingo Klöcker]

I also think that adding a split filter (there's already a join filter) is useful. Sometimes we store lists of strings in simple CharFields and for display we need to replace the separator with a more human-friendly separator.

So, who's going to decide if it shall be added?

[Tim Graham]

Write to the DevelopersMailingList to get a consensus about how to proceed.

[Kamil]

You can see the discussion ​here.

[Prakash]

Assigning to myself

[Tim Graham]

Closing as the mailing list didn't yield consensus to add this.