Django Filter To Shorten Naturaltime

• This is a filter snippet to shorten the natural time value obtained using naturaltime function from humanize.

  #In templatetag file , say file_tags.py from django import template register = template.Library()

  @register.filter def shorten_naturaltime(naturaltime): naturaltime = naturaltime.replace(‘minutes’,’m’).replace(‘hours’,‘h’).replace(‘days’,’d’) naturaltime = naturaltime.replace(‘months’,‘mon’).replace(‘weeks’,‘w’).replace(‘week’,‘w’) return naturaltime

  #In Usage file {% load file_tags %} {{start_time|naturaltime|shorten_naturaltime}} #where start_time is the datetime object to be modified

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