From db6688a454497758e17773db96cbde78a9f1e1eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:20:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added a note about not using ifequal and ifnotequal to
 compare against True, False, None, etc.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3880 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
---
 docs/templates.txt | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/templates.txt b/docs/templates.txt
index c9e76d6c94..35537d6e5f 100644
--- a/docs/templates.txt
+++ b/docs/templates.txt
@@ -540,6 +540,11 @@ The arguments can be hard-coded strings, so the following is valid::
         ...
     {% endifequal %}
 
+It is only possible to compare an argument to template variables or strings.
+You cannot check for equality with Python objects such as ``True`` or
+``False``.  If you need to test if something is true or false, use the ``if``
+and ``ifnot`` tags instead.
+
 ifnotequal
 ~~~~~~~~~~