Format an un-decorated phone number in django?

Question

I\'ve got a DB chock full o\' phone numbers as strings, they\'re all formatted like 1112223333, I\'d like to display it as 111-222-3333 in my django template

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Answer 1

This is quite a bit belated, but I figured I'd post my solution anyway. It's super simple and takes advantage of creating your own template tags (for use throughout your project). The other part of this is using the parenthesis around the area code.

from django import template
register = template.Library()

def phonenumber(value):
    phone = '(%s) %s - %s' %(value[0:3],value[3:6],value[6:10])
    return phone

register.filter('phonenumber', phonenumber)

For the rest of your project, all you need to do is {{ var|phonenumber }}