Since it's pretty common to create a context, load a template, render the template, and then return the rendered string as an HTTP response, Django provides a shortcut at django.shortcuts.render_to_response to do this quickly.

In your mycompany/press/views.py file, add this line to the top of the file to import the render_to_response function:

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response

In the same file, edit the latest function to look like this:

def latest(request):
    ''' Returns information on the latest press release '''
    p = PressRelease.objects.latest()
    return render_to_response('press/latest.html', {
        'press': p,        
    })

Instead of loading a template file, creating a context, and rendering the template with the context, we simply use the render_to_response function that takes a template as its first argument and context as its...