Possible to pass more than 1 argument to a context processor in Django?

Question

Is it possible to pass more than 1 argument to a context processor in Django? In other words, in addition to the HttpRequest object, I would like to pass 1 or more additional argument?

Answer 1

You might want to look into custom tags:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#howto-custom-template-tags

Make sure that your template tags module is in a templatetags subdir of a loaded module. I.e. if you have a "foo" module in your INSTALLED_APPS, make sure that, wherever foo is located, there is a:

foo/templatetags/blurf.py

that contains the tags and filters you want. Then you can:

{% load blurf %}

in your template, and if blurf has a grok tag with two arguments defined, then you can:

{% grok 1 2 %}

in that template.

Answer 2

Store whatever variables you would want in the session. Then you can access it through the request.