Split the list view code up in three pieces
1. getListContents which returns the required contents dictionary
2. _list which returns the response for a specified list of contents
3. list which constructs just one content dict and passes it to _list
This way it is easier to do step 1 and 2 in other code than list(),
which makes it possible to display multiple list pages (by calling
getListContents multiple times and passing the result to _list).
import datetime
import time
from django.utils.tzinfo import LocalTimezone
from django.utils.translation import ungettext, ugettext
def timesince(d, now=None):
"""
Takes two datetime objects and returns the time between d and now
as a nicely formatted string, e.g. "10 minutes". If d occurs after now,
then "0 minutes" is returned.
Units used are years, months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes.
Seconds and microseconds are ignored. Up to two adjacent units will be
displayed. For example, "2 weeks, 3 days" and "1 year, 3 months" are
possible outputs, but "2 weeks, 3 hours" and "1 year, 5 days" are not.
Adapted from http://blog.natbat.co.uk/archive/2003/Jun/14/time_since
"""
chunks = (
(60 * 60 * 24 * 365, lambda n: ungettext('year', 'years', n)),
(60 * 60 * 24 * 30, lambda n: ungettext('month', 'months', n)),
(60 * 60 * 24 * 7, lambda n : ungettext('week', 'weeks', n)),
(60 * 60 * 24, lambda n : ungettext('day', 'days', n)),
(60 * 60, lambda n: ungettext('hour', 'hours', n)),
(60, lambda n: ungettext('minute', 'minutes', n))
)
# Convert datetime.date to datetime.datetime for comparison
if d.__class__ is not datetime.datetime:
d = datetime.datetime(d.year, d.month, d.day)
if not now:
if d.tzinfo:
now = datetime.datetime.now(LocalTimezone(d))
else:
now = datetime.datetime.now()
# ignore microsecond part of 'd' since we removed it from 'now'
delta = now - (d - datetime.timedelta(0, 0, d.microsecond))
since = delta.days * 24 * 60 * 60 + delta.seconds
if since <= 0:
# d is in the future compared to now, stop processing.
return u'0 ' + ugettext('minutes')
for i, (seconds, name) in enumerate(chunks):
count = since // seconds
if count != 0:
break
s = ugettext('%(number)d %(type)s') % {'number': count, 'type': name(count)}
if i + 1 < len(chunks):
# Now get the second item
seconds2, name2 = chunks[i + 1]
count2 = (since - (seconds * count)) // seconds2
if count2 != 0:
s += ugettext(', %(number)d %(type)s') % {'number': count2, 'type': name2(count2)}
return s
def timeuntil(d, now=None):
"""
Like timesince, but returns a string measuring the time until
the given time.
"""
if not now:
if getattr(d, 'tzinfo', None):
now = datetime.datetime.now(LocalTimezone(d))
else:
now = datetime.datetime.now()
return timesince(now, d)