Django 1.4 - {{ request.user.username}} doesn't render in template

Question

In my view, I can print request.user.username, however in the template, {{request.user.username}} does not appear. To make this easy, I removed the logic from the function,

Answer 1

Check out the documentation for RequestContext and TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.

If you want request to be in your template context, then you need to include django.core.context_processors.request in your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting. It is not there by default.

However as Tadeck pointed out in his answer user is already available if you are using the default settings, since django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth is part of the default list for TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS.