On Monday, 3 October 2011 13:17:49 UTC+1, Victor Hooi wrote:
>
> heya,
>
> I was previously using the following to render a form:
>
> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, RequestContext
> ...
> def upload_file(request):
> ...
> return render_to_response('upload_form.html', {'form': form},
> context_instance=RequestContext(request))
>
> I can confirm that this works fine, form was rendered perfectly fine.
>
> However, I read that render() is now the bee-knees...lol (
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5154358/django-what-is-the-difference-between-render-render-to-response-and-direct),
>
> so I thought I'd switch to that:
>
> from django.shortcuts import render
> ...
> def upload_file(request):
> ...
> return render('upload_form.html', {'form': form})
>
>
> However, when I try to do that, I get an error:
>
> <snip>
>
> Exception Type: AttributeError at /upload/
> Exception Value: 'str' object has no attribute 'META'
>
>
> Any idea from the above why this might be happening?
>
> Thanks,
> Victor
>
The first argument to `render` is the request.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/http/shortcuts/#render
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