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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.