Arguments in depth

Examples given here are in tabular form. The non-standard options are a list of options to the argument class which are not the default value. The input is the single token in your template tag that gets consumed by this argument class. The output is the value you get in your render_tag method for the keyword of this argument.

Context for all examples: {'name': 'classytags'}

Argument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
	name	'classytags'
	'name'	'name'
resolve=False	name	'name'
default='myvalue'		'myvalue'

KeywordArgument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
	key=name	{'key': 'classytags'}
	key='name'	{'key': 'name'}
defaultkey='mykey'	name	{'defaultkey': 'classytags'}
defaultkey='mykey'		{'mykey': None}
resolve=False	key=name	{'key': 'name'}
splitter='->'	key=name->'value'	{'key=name': 'value'}

IntegerArgument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
	'1'	1
	name	0

ChoiceArgument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
choices=['choice']	name	'choice'
choices=['choice', 'classytags']	name	'classytags'

MultiValueArgument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
		[]
	name 'is' 'awesome'	['classytags', 'is', 'awesome']

MultiKeywordArgument

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
		{}
	name=name awesome='yes'	{'name': 'classytags', 'awesome': 'yes'}
splitter=':', resolve=False	hello:world	{'hello': 'world'}

Flag

Examples

Non-standard options	Input	Output
true_values=['true', 'yes']	name	False
true_values=['true', 'yes']	'YES'	True
true_values=['true', 'yes'], case_sensitive=True	'YES'	False