Django Quick Tips: Context Processors
Django Quick Tips: Context Processors

Better templating in Python

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Let’s talk about context processors and see how you can use them effectively in your Django projects.

“A context processor has a simple interface: it’s a Python function that takes one argument, an HttpRequest object, and returns a dictionary that gets added to the template context. Each context processor must return a dictionary. Custom context processors can live anywhere in your codebase as long as they are pointed to by the context_processors argument of Engine.” — Django’s documentation

When working with multiple and separate views , you may load different data objects into different views, but sometimes the use case requires you to have the same data available across the entire application — by that, I mean across all templates of the application. What would you do in that case? A beginner might repeat the process of loading data into a template context for each view, which is not so clever, right?

That’s exactly where custom context processors can be very useful.

We’ll see how we can put them in practice in just a moment, but let’s define a use case that would let you easily grasp what we’re about to implement.
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