On Mar 20, 4:49 am, Carl Meyer <c...@oddbird.net> wrote:
>
> Those last five characters in "get_context_data" actually serve quite a
> useful purpose, IMO. They clarify that the return value is just the data
> that will go into building a context (a dictionary), as opposed to being
> the Context or RequestContext object itself, which is what I'd expect
> from a method named "get_context".
>

Good point. I might be splitting hairs, but _data isn't clear enough -
both a dict and a Context objects satisfy `data`. Looking at
RequestContext code, I found __init__ gets a `dict` parameter, so how
about making it get_context_dict?

Benny

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