Something deep inside kept telling me it was something like that.
Grrr.... Love making the noob mistakes. NOT!
;-)
Thanks DR!
On Mar 24, 11:57 am, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On Mar 24, 3:42 pm, Keyton Weissinger <key...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm using the extra_context dictionary passed into the view like many
> > folks (James Bennett among them) seem to recommend either directly or
> > via his projects.
>
> > Here is what a view might look like (all of this is on dpaste with
> > link below if you'd prefer):
>
> > from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
> > from django.template import RequestContext
>
> > def test_view(request, template_name='test_view.html', extra_context=
> > {}):
>
> No need to read any further: you have run up against one of the
> biggest Python gotchas. Never put a mutable type as a default argument
> in a function call. This is because the definition is evaluated only
> once, so you get the same values each time you call the function. More
> explanation from the effbot here:http://effbot.org/zone/default-values.htm
>
> As that page shows, the answer is:
> def test_view(request, template_name='test_view.html',
> extra_context=None)
> if extra_context is None:
> extra_context = {}
>
> etc.
> --
> DR.
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