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Django: in django-tables2 how to change the way a URL field is displayed

I am new to Django and I am creating a web page that displays model information in a table format. I discovered a very useful library - django-tables2, which makes creating html tables very simple.

However, I cannot figure out how to set up the rendering of one of the columns in the table. In particular, I need a link column (I think it is implemented using LinkColumn or URLColumn in django_tables2) for rendering in

<a href="http://example.com">Personal Webpage</a>

instead of the django_tables2 path, where the default is the link name of the link.

<a href="http://example.com">http://example.com</a>

Where does this logic belong - in the model, in the view or in the template?

# models.py
class Person(models.Model):
  ...
  personal_webpage = models.URLField()
  #personal_webpage = models.URLField(display_link_name = "Personal Webpage") # is something like this possible at the model level?

# table.py
import django_tables2
import my_app.models import Person

class PersonTable(django_tables2.Table):
  class Meta:
    model = Person
    #personal_webpage = URLColumn(url_name = "Personal Webpage") # is something like this possible?

# views.py
from django.shortcuts import render
from django_tables2   import RequestConfig
from my_app.models    import Person
from my_app.table     import PersonTable

def personal_page_view(request):
  table = PersonTable(Person.objects.all())
  RequestConfig(request).configure(table)
  return render(request, "my_app/personal_webpage.html", {"table": table})

#personal_webpage.html
{% load render_table from django_tables2 %}
<!doctype html>
<html>

...

<body>

...

{% render_table table %}

</body>
</html>

I have not studied the source code of django / django_tables2 yet, and hopefully some will have a suggestion.

UPDATE: I searched more for a solution, found a suggested solution:

#tables.py
class CustomTextLinkColumn(django_tables2.LinkColumn):

   def __init__(self, viewname, urlconf=None, args=None, 
     kwargs=None, current_app=None, attrs=None, custom_text=None, **extra):
     super(CustomTextLinkColumn, self).__init__(viewname, urlconf=urlconf, 
     args=args, kwargs=kwargs, current_app=current_app, attrs=attrs, **extra)

     self.custom_text = custom_text

     def render(self, value, record, bound_column):
       return super(CustomTextLinkColumn, self).render(self,
         self.custom_text if self.custom_text else value,
         record, bound_column)

class PersonTable(django_tables2.Table):

   webpage_link = CustomTextLinkColumn('my_app.views.personal_page_view', args=[A('personal_webpage')],
         custom_text='Personal Webpage', verbose_name='Personal Webpage', )

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, PersonTable :

class PersonTable(django_tables2.Table):
    personal_webpage = CustomTextLinkColumn('my_app.views.personal_page_view', 
        args=[A('personal_webpage')], custom_text='Personal Webpage', 
        verbose_name='Personal Webpage', )

    class Meta: 
        model = Person

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