How to apply "format" on a list of strings?

[htgoebel]

I try to do something like in Python

("db.%s.dump" % n for n in names)

I tried

{{ databases | map("format", "db.%s.dump") }}
{{ "db.%s.dump" | map("format", databases) }}

and a lot more. All I tried failed.

The documentation is of no help :-(

[rockwelln]

why not {% for n in names %} {{ "db.%s.dump"|format(n) }} {% endfor %}?

[krzysztof-magosa]

@NormanDenayer it's fine unless you want to pass it to another filter in map().

[krzysztof-magosa]

Personally I ended with writing own plugin:

from jinja2.utils import soft_unicode

def format_string(text, fmt, *kw):
    return soft_unicode(fmt).format(text, *kw)

class FilterModule(object):
    def filters(self):
        return dict(format_string=format_string)

Usage:

list_of_names | map('format_string', 'hello {}!')

[davidism]

See #906 (comment) for why I'm declining this. It also contains a filter that could accomplish this, or you can write a more specific filter as shown above.