option to apply filters before the defaults ?

Migrated issue, originally created by Anonymous

Maybe I am wrong here, but shouldn't default filters such as unicode() be applied last? The fact that it's done the exactly opposite way makes it a pain, as we are limited to deal with the string/unicode representation of whatever variable is passed to the filter.

Hence, I propose the following change:

diff -r 29d9a098a70465450563e9c07ed613e227886936 mako/codegen.py
--- a/mako/codegen.py   Fri Aug 05 17:45:51 2011 -0400
+++ b/mako/codegen.py   Mon Aug 08 11:14:48 2011 +0200
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@
                 if self.compiler.pagetag:
                     args = self.compiler.pagetag.filter_args.args + args
                 if self.compiler.default_filters:
-                    args = self.compiler.default_filters + args
+                    args = args + self.compiler.default_filters
         for e in args:
             # if filter given as a function, get just the identifier portion
             if e == 'n':

What do you think?

Cheers,

Pedro

Start in mako/codegen.py at the default_filters branch shown in the issue and review the comment discussion to clarify whether ordering should always change or be optional. Verify the resulting filter order for explicit and default filters, and ensure the behavior is covered by the relevant existing tests.