Django - How to make a variable available to all templates?

Question

I would like to know how to pass a variable to all my templates, without repeating the same code on every method in my views.py file?

In the example below I would l

Answer 1

As seen in this example, post Django 1.3 you can simply use render instead of render_to_response which doesn't require you to explicitly pass the context processor.

def another_view_method(request):
    categories = Category.objects.all()
    return render(
        'eg/front_page.html',
        {'is_logged_in': is_logged_in(request), 'categories':categories}
    )