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Django 1.0 Template Development

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Django 1.0 Template Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.0 Template Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered the Django Context class and its usage. This was a code-heavy chapter; don't feel bad if you need to go through the chapter again to make sure you got everything.

We saw how to instantiate the Context object and pass its values from our views. We briefly looked at manipulating an existing context, and how to use locals() to lazily pass all items from our current scope into the Context.

We looked at how to use these values from the context in our templates and how Django handles invalid variables. We also saw some shortcuts for rendering contexts and how to subclass Context with the RequestContext class to get additional items into our Context.

Next, we'll look at how to use Django's built-in tags and filters.