Shortcut for smart printing user's full name or username in template

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from django import template

@register.filter
def nice_name(user):
    """
    Example::
    
        Hi, {{ user|nice_name }}
    """
    return user.get_full_name() or user.username

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Comments

jnns (on September 5, 2012):

Why not simply use {{ user.get_full_name|default:user.username }}?

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