5.6.2 Shortening Code with render_to_response()
Most views must do the following:
1. Load a template file as a Template object.
2. Create a Context from a dictionary.
3. Render the Template with the Context.
4. Instantiate an HttpResponse object with the rendered result.
Django supplies not one but two shortcuts to perform this process for us. The first is the render_to_response() shortcut. The shortcut replaces the behavior that we currently have in our views, performing all four tasks listed above. Let’s start by importing it, adding it to the end of our pre-existing shortcut import, as shown in Example 5.21.
Example 5.21: Project Code
organizer/views.py in 5ff3dee4fa
1 from django.shortcuts import ( 2 get_object_or_404, ...
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