Question

I’m coming from a Rails programming experience.

I’m coding an app in Python on Google App Engine with Django templates.

I can’t call strftime(“%I:%M %p”) on a datetime.

In my main.py file I have:

import datetime
....
class Report(db.Model):
    date = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add = True)

I pass all the reports to the template and in the template I have:

{% for report in reports %}
<tr>
    <td>{{ report.date.strftime("%I:%M %p") }}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

I know I have a datetime object because I can do:

{{ report.date.day }} 

or:

{{ report.date.minute }} 

Just fine and they return what they are supposed to return.

When I do have:

 {{ report.date.strftime("%I:%M %p") }}

I get the error:

raise TemplateSyntaxError, "Could not parse the remainder: %s" % token[upto:]
TemplateSyntaxError: Could not parse the remainder: ("%I:%M %p")

How do I get strftime to work?

Answer 1

The Django template engine doesn’t support passing arguments to methods like that. To accomplish the same thing, try using the date filter:

{{ report.date|date:"f A" }}

(Edited: fixed the syntax for the date string, because I’m stupid.)