Perhaps you don't want to drop a table, but you also want to do something faster than Model.objects.all().delete() but without resorting to raw SQL. This function, clear_tables, will call the sql_flush operation on a list of tables.
simple_tag is nice, but it would be useful if it had a "as variable" clause at the end. This little bit of code factors out the reusable parts and makes a tag almost as simple as simple_tag. Now you can create tags like the following: {% some_function 1 2 as variable %} {% some_function db person %} To add a new function, just do: register.tag("new_function", make_tag(new_function)) (I think you have to take the quotes off a string.)
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