Only official documents that I am sure you have found here .
Other good places to search are user group , developer group , source code, and source code history ,
Relatively compile_filter. Source (with docstring) says.
def compile_filter(self, token):
"Convenient wrapper for FilterExpression"
return FilterExpression(token, self)
And FilterExpression is documented here as:
( ) . :
>>> token = 'variable|default:"Default value"|date:"Y-m-d"'
>>> p = Parser('')
>>> fe = FilterExpression(token, p)
>>> len(fe.filters)
2
>>> fe.var
'variable'