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diff --git a/docs/faq.txt b/docs/faq.txt index 204c69244d..e1f344c811 100644 --- a/docs/faq.txt +++ b/docs/faq.txt @@ -313,6 +313,18 @@ PostgreSQL fans, and MySQL_ and `SQLite 3`_ are also supported. .. _MySQL: http://www.mysql.com/ .. _`SQLite 3`: http://www.sqlite.org/ +Do I lose anything by using Python 2.3 versus newer Python versions, such as Python 2.5? +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +No. Django itself is guaranteed to work with any version of Python from 2.3 +and higher. + +If you use a Python version newer than 2.3, you will, of course, be able to +take advantage of newer Python features in your own code, along with the speed +improvements and other optimizations that have been made to the Python language +itself. But the Django framework itself should work equally well on 2.3 as it +does on 2.4 or 2.5. + Do I have to use mod_python? ---------------------------- diff --git a/docs/templates_python.txt b/docs/templates_python.txt index bc05d769ad..39e5b9d91a 100644 --- a/docs/templates_python.txt +++ b/docs/templates_python.txt @@ -366,6 +366,18 @@ If ``TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS`` contains this processor, every `HttpRequest object`_. Note that this processor is not enabled by default; you'll have to activate it. +Writing your own context processors +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +A context processor has a very simple interface: It's just a Python function +that takes one argument, an ``HttpRequest`` object, and returns a dictionary +that gets added to the template context. Each context processor *must* return +a dictionary. + +Custom context processors can live anywhere in your code base. All Django cares +about is that your custom context processors are pointed-to by your +``TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS`` setting. + Loading templates ----------------- |