Request context processors - shortcut

[spako]

i'm going to be using custom context processors a lot so i've written
my own shortcut to invoke RequestContext and get a template rendered.
this is my function:

def render_to_response_with_context_processors(template_name, request,
args={}):
"""
this function was written to provide a "shortcut" when using
context processors
if i use this a lot i'll come up with a better (shorter) name
"""
t = template_loader.get_template(template_name)
c = RequestContext(request, args)
return HttpResponse(t.render(c))

this is the only way i could get context processors specified in the
setting TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS to be run in a view. i basically
want to know if what i do is the "correct" way of doing things and also
if there are other way of getting context processors to run. (i.e. not
having to invoke RequestContext)?

[James Bennett]

On 7/11/06, spako <tran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> this is the only way i could get context processors specified in the
> setting TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS to be run in a view. i basically
> want to know if what i do is the "correct" way of doing things and also
> if there are other way of getting context processors to run. (i.e. not
> having to invoke RequestContext)?

render_to_response takes an optional 'context_instance' argument which
can tell it to use RequestContext or any other subclass of Context you
might have defined, instead of the default.

--
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-- George Carlin

[spako]

Thanks, that's exaclty what i needed!