Question

I am trying to build a date-based URL with Django’s url template tag. I have a datetime object that I can display like so:

{{block|date:"F j Y"}}

However, when I use nearly the same syntax with the url templatetag, like so:

{% url meeting block|date:"Y" %}

I get an error — it appears that the only thing passed to url is an empty string:

... Reverse for 'meeting' with arguments '(u'',)' and arguments ...

What might I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

The url tag is a bit strange, and is very picky about its arguments. In particular, I don’t think it evaluates any filters in its arguments.

You could try this:

{% with block|date:"Y" as blockyear %}{% url meeting blockyear %}{% endwith %}