I’m running a django project that uses a webpack manifest to retrieve the name of the appropriate webpack asset. I created a context processor, however because the key is dynamic, in the context of the template I need to “get” the value accessible via that key in a python dict. The Django builtin template_tags are pretty slim and I started wondering: why isn’t there a dict.get template tag? I saw this thread and I think I understand the philosophy that as much context as possible should be given before the view renders the template, however I’m curious if there are any obvious security (or otherwise) concerns in creating a pythonic get template tag?
I don’t see why there would be, unless templates are written by non-programmers or are not retrieved from the filesystem. I’ve build such a filter myself too.
I build that filter on a regular basis as well.
Often I even go as far as doing a get filter that works for both dict.get(key) and getattr(obj, key)
There’s a ticket that was all but accepted 19 years ago for this, pending a final decision about where exactly to put it. The disposition of the ticket seems like it simply got lost in a shuffle. (EDIT: fixed link to ticket)
I think this makes sense to add: it’s more general-purpose than some existing tags.
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