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19th July 2007 - Link Blog

Logic in Templates. I don’t think it would hurt Django to have a bit more support for conditional logic in templates, but I wouldn’t go as far as supporting the ability to call Python functions directly.

Posted 19th July 2007 at 8:35 am

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