I was just thinking yesterday that one of my few annoyances with Django was having to explicitly pass a RequestContext instance to render_to_response() in order have access to the request object in a template. Today I noticed the new render() shortcut that finally stops this violation of the DRY principle. Now they just need to add django.core.context_processors.request to the default list of TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. More than once I’ve puzzled over why the request variable in a template wasn’t working. Seriously, isn’t this something folks are going to want more often than not?
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