Can I suppress newlines after each template tag with Django's template engine?

Question

In Rails ERB, you can suppress newlines by adding a trailing hyphen to tags:

<ul>
  <% for @item in @items -%>
    <li><%= @item %></li>
  <% end -%>
</ul>

becomes:

<ul>
    <li>apple</li>
    <li>banana</li>
    <li>cacao</li>
</ul>

Is there a way to do this in Django? (Disclosure: I'm generating a csv file with Django)

Edit: Clarified that the newlines I'm hunting down are the ones left behind after the template tags.

Answer 1

The closest I've found to what you're looking for (I'm looking for the same thing) is talk about a future patch, here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2594.

Unfortunately, it looks like there's not much you can do until they merge that patch in.

Answer 2

{% spaceless %}
<ul>
    <li>apple</li>
    <li>banana</li>
    <li>cacao</li>
</ul>
{% endspaceless %}

I am not aware about any way to discard template tags lines. I'd vote for opening bug report.