On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 20:28 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
[...]
> Is it really necessary to complicate every 'view' method by appending
> 'context_instance=RequestContext(request)' to the render_to_response
> call? This seems totally boilerplate and a violation of DRY.
Write your own shortcut fun
Peter Rowell wrote:
>> There is a mechanism available
>> for that -- context processors -- but people don't want to use it
>> because they want *something else* that happens for every template.
>
> Malcolm's absolutely correct: context processors (I mis-typed when I
> said content processors) is
> There is a mechanism available
> for that -- context processors -- but people don't want to use it
> because they want *something else* that happens for every template.
Malcolm's absolutely correct: context processors (I mis-typed when I
said content processors) is exactly what you want here. T
On 06-Jan-08, at 11:01 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Attempting to do a method call {% views.get_stuff %} just results
> in a 'bad
> tag' error.
>
> Doing it like a variable {{ views.get_stuff }} just seems to be
> ignored.
make a templatetag
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On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 16:12 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Peter Rowell wrote:
[...]
> > I recommend rethinking how data is passed into and used in your
> > templates. Consider creating your own content processor. Or maybe some
> > custom template tags and/or filters. See
> > http://www.djangoproj
Peter Rowell wrote:
> It
> would probably be better (for any number of reasons) if you put all of
> these types of routines in a utils.py module and import/pass that.
> E.g.
>
> import utils
> return render_to_response('now.html', RequestContext(request, {
> 'utils': utils,
>
> Attempting to do a method call {% views.get_stuff %} just results in a 'bad
> tag' error.
Right, because there is no tag with the name 'views.get_stuff'.
> Doing it like a variable {{ views.get_stuff }} just seems to be ignored.
Not ignored, but it probably fails which the template engine tre
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