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The first example in the Loosely Coupled Django series, this entry looks at replacing Django's template language with the freshly released Jinja2 template language.

You are responding to this comment written by Terry Jones on February 6th 2009, 19:01.

Hi Will

Thanks for taking the time to write all this up.

In your render_to_response function you have a default argument: context={}

This is almost certainly not want you want (though I guess it works in this situation if the context dict always has the same keys).

The function default is evaluated ONCE, when the function def is read. So you want context=None and then a test to see if it's None and set it to {} if so. Make sense?

Thanks again, Terry

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