Django snippets

from django import template
register = template.Library()
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag, NavigableString

@register.filter(name='plaintext')
@stringfilter
def plaintext(value):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(value)
    anchors = soup.findAll('a')
    for a in anchors:
        substitute = Tag(soup, 'span')
        substitute.insert(0,a.string)
        meta = []
        attrs = [k for k,v in a.attrs]
        if 'title' in attrs: meta.append(a['title'])
        if 'href' in attrs: meta.append(a['href'])
        if meta: substitute.insert(1,NavigableString(' (%s)' % ', '.join(meta)))
        a.replaceWith(substitute)
    
    images = soup.findAll('img')
    for img in images:
        substitute = Tag(soup,'span')
        meta = []
        attrs = [k for k,v in img.attrs]
        if 'src' in attrs: meta.append(img['src'])
        if 'title' in attrs: meta.append(img['title'])
        if 'alt' in attrs: meta.append(img['alt'])
        if meta: substitute.insert(0,NavigableString(' (%s)' % ', '.join(meta)))
        img.replaceWith(substitute)
    return mark_safe(''.join(soup.findAll(text=True)))
plaintext.mark_safe = True