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

Adding a "truncate" filter was a feature request for 4 years but finally landed in trunk, as far as I understand https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5025 - so we’ve to wait for the next release or use trunk.