How do I display the results of a python function in Django's base.html file?

Question

I have the following function that is currently defined in my views.py :

def display_path_url(request):
    return HttpResponse("Current Path: %s" % request.path)

Say I am accessing 127.0.0.1:8000/product_list , I will have product_list/ printed.

I need this information to be printed on every rendered page in Django . This is why I want this function to be called in base.html .

How do I do that?

Thank you for your help.

PS: I tried to find an answer from other Stackoverlow posts but could not find any solutions. I hope this question is not a duplicate of some other question.

Answer 1

request variable is available in Django templates. You can access it from anywhere. Not only base.html . Like this -

{{ request.path }}

Read more .

Answer 2

As karthikr and Bibhas already mentionned you don't have much to do to access the current request in a template (assuming the template is rendered using a RequestContext , cf https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#subclassing-context-requestcontext ).

As a more general answer, if you want to make a function available from any template, then the best way is to write a custom filter or template tag as explained here : https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/