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authorRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2009-03-18 10:46:55 +0000
committerRussell Keith-Magee <russell@keith-magee.com>2009-03-18 10:46:55 +0000
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parent61a2708c4108939795c70cf124d5696275d6c255 (diff)
Fixed #10482 -- Unified access to response.context when inspecting responses from the test client. Thanks to James Bennett for the design, and Julien Phalip for the patch.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@10084 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -712,6 +712,16 @@ Specifically, a ``Response`` object has the following attributes:
If the rendered page used multiple templates, then ``context`` will be a
list of ``Context`` objects, in the order in which they were rendered.
+ .. versionadded:: 1.1
+
+ Regardless of the number of templates used during rendering, you can
+ retrieve context values using the ``[]`` operator. For example, the
+ context variable ``name`` could be retrieved using::
+
+ >>> response = client.get('/foo/')
+ >>> response.context['name']
+ 'Arthur'
+
.. attribute:: request
The request data that stimulated the response.