Django template tag to truncate text

Question

Django has truncatewords template tag, which cuts the text at the given word count. But there is nothing like truncatechars.

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Answer 1

You should write a custom template filter: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#writing-custom-template-filters

Have a look at how truncatewords is built in django.utils.text