Django humanize outside of template?

python django django-templates humanize
averageman picture averageman · Jun 21, 2013 · Viewed 8k times · Source

I know I can use the humanize module to convert date/time to a friendlier format in the django templates. I was wondering if I can convert those things outside the templates. For example in a views.py function or a models.py class(meaning outside of a django template). Is there any other library that can do that?

Answer

karthikr picture karthikr · Jun 21, 2013

Yes you can

Lets say you want to call naturalday in views.py you would do

from django.contrib.humanize.templatetags.humanize import naturalday
natural_day = naturalday(value)

You can refer to the source code here for the signature, and options

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