from django import template register = template.Library() @register.tag(name='captureas') def do_captureas(parser, token): try: tag_name, args = token.contents.split(None, 1) except ValueError: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("'captureas' node requires a variable name.") nodelist = parser.parse(('endcaptureas',)) parser.delete_first_token() return CaptureasNode(nodelist, args) class CaptureasNode(template.Node): def __init__(self, nodelist, varname): self.nodelist = nodelist self.varname = varname def render(self, context): output = self.nodelist.render(context) context[self.varname] = output return ''