Is there a way to access the context from everywhere in Django?

Question

I\'m looking for a way to have a global variable that is accessible by any module within my django request without having to pass it around as parameter. Traditionally in ot

Answer 1

You have to write your own ContextProcessor, like explained here.

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EDIT:

After you've created a Context Processor, e.g.,

def ip_address_processor(request):
  return {'ip_address': request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']}

you can get the variables you need by initializing a RequestContext, like this:

from django.template import RequestContext

def myview(request):
  rc = RequestContext(request)
  rc.get('ip_address')

However, please note that if you don't put your Context Processor inside the TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS tuple, you have to pass the processor to RequestContext as an argument, e.g.:

from django.template import RequestContext

def ip_address_processor(request):
  return {'ip_address': request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']}

def myview(request):
  rc = RequestContext(request, processors=[ip_address_processor])
  rc.get('ip_address')

Some useful links:

• Django Template API documentation
• Settings TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS
• Django Book: Advanced Templates