On Sunday, 29 January 2012 05:34:50 UTC, Mike wrote: > > In a project I'm working on I have a status bar at the top of the webpage > that will render data using template tags. The status bar will be > displayed on all of my views, so I want to put the html code in my base > template. The base template is imported to all of templates using the > 'extends' template tag. Now the base template needs a dictionary of data. > My question is, how do I pass this data to the base template? I'm passing > it in the context data of every view that renders a template, but it seems > like there should be a better way - for example the base template calling > out to a python function that can add data to the context before its > rendered. Is there any other way to pass data to a base template? > > > This is exactly what context processors are for: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext -- DR.
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