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Continuing those series of tasty features in Django 1.4. It's templates and newly added templatetags this time. Many things improved in template logic now. Lets move on point by point... Tag  {% elif %} For most of us it is almost killer feature of new Django 1.4. You will have simpler logic in your templates, if you have advanced logic there, of course. ;) Key-value arguments for user tags You can use key-value for tags along with old, positional, arguments, e.g.: { % custom_tag 123 "test" thing . var text = msg | upper username = user . get_full_name % } All of this implemented using common "args" and "kwargs": @register . simple_tag def custom_tag ( a , b , * args , * * kwargs ) : warning = kwargs [ 'text' ] profile = kwargs [ 'username' ] . . . return . . . assignment_tag Some tags are not built to output something in template, like simple_tag. They only have to change something in c...

Python plays with unicode nicely nowadays. Bt what if you must deal with old time formats conversion, or ASCII files exporting for e.g. You may also use software that is out of date but is too long to rewrite...  Here often errors occur. I have received mine at copy-pasting from MS Word into Django admin UI  by stupid users. Most of the website played nicely with this fancy characters, but exporting to CSV failed due to non ASCII characters support. Google said nothing special. Python docs about unicode usage briefly cover this type of events. So here is the result of some hours of experiments. I've decided to rewrite some of the python functionality to create decode function with behavior for my needs. Hopefully they will shorten you some time with those collisions you may get in your Django apps... Anyway I've started to receive errors like: Exception Type: UnicodeEncodeError Exception Value: 'asc...