Django snippets

from django import template
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe

register = template.Library()

def quick_url(addressable_object, autoescape=None):
    if not hasattr(addressable_object, 'get_absolute_url'):
        return addressable_object
    if autoescape:
        esc = conditional_escape
    else:
        esc = lambda x: x
    result = '<a href="%s">%s</a>' % (esc(addressable_object.get_absolute_url()), esc(addressable_object))
    return mark_safe(result)

quick_url.needs_autoescape = True
register.filter(quick_url)