creating my own context processor in django

Question

I have come to a point where I need to pass certain variables to all of my views (mostly custom authentication type variables).

I was told writing my own context pro

Answer 1

According to the django docs you can use render as a shortcut instead of render_to_response with the context_instance argument:

Alternatively, use the render() shortcut which is the same as a call to render_to_response() with a context_instance argument that forces the use of a RequestContext.