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

If you’re using Django’s render_to_response() shortcut to populate a template with the contents of a dictionary, your template will be passed a Context instance by default (not a RequestContext). To use a RequestContext in your template rendering, 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.