Firstly, please excuse my double post: I didn't realise posts are vetted,
so I thought it had been lost.
The very significant advantage of this being a hook (instead of overriding
dispatch) is that it allows you to call methods that require dispatch to
have already set variables (eg: self.kwarg
I don't really see what difference another function makes. Say
https://gist.github.com/1957251 is implemented, what makes:
def prepare_view(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
# the thing I want to do
super(ClassName, self).prepare_view(request, *args, **kwargs)
preferable over:
def dispatc
