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

I made my own template filter, that add "..." to the end of (last word of) the (truncated) string as well:

from django import template
register = template.Library()

@register.filter("truncate_chars")
def truncate_chars(value, max_length):
    if len(value) > max_length:
        truncd_val = value[:max_length]
        if not len(value) == max_length+1 and value[max_length+1] != " ":
            truncd_val = truncd_val[:truncd_val.rfind(" ")]
        return  truncd_val + "..."
    return value

Answer 2

slice

Answer 3

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.