Django template and the locals trick

Question

The django books gives the local trick in order to avoid to type a long list of parameters as context dictionnary

http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter04/

Answer 1

I don't like it, personally. There's probably no reason for my preference, other than the old Python dictum "Explicit is better than implicit". I like to know exactly what's going into my templates.