On 03/21/2011 09:14 AM, daonb wrote: > On Mar 20, 4:49 am, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote: >> Those last five characters in "get_context_data" actually serve quite a >> useful purpose, IMO. They clarify that the return value is just the data >> that will go into building a context (a dictionary), as opposed to being >> the Context or RequestContext object itself, which is what I'd expect >> from a method named "get_context". > > Good point. I might be splitting hairs, but _data isn't clear enough - > both a dict and a Context objects satisfy `data`. Looking at > RequestContext code, I found __init__ gets a `dict` parameter, so how > about making it get_context_dict?
Sure - except that these decisions were made several months ago, and these kinds of considerations needed to have been raised then. We've had a beta and an RC release with these names, and will have 1.3 any time now; there's simply zero chance that we'll break things for everyone who's already started working with CBVs in order to make tiny improvements to method names. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
