Comments on: Django Gotcha: Never set a variable called ‘user’ in your RequestContext http://www.nomadjourney.com/2009/01/django-gotcha-never-set-a-variable-called-user-in-your-requestcontext/ Currently in transit between here and there... Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy Dunck http://www.nomadjourney.com/2009/01/django-gotcha-never-set-a-variable-called-user-in-your-requestcontext/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Jeremy Dunck Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:18:21 +0000 http://www.nomadjourney.com/?p=69#comment-20 May you have few gotchas. FWIW, this actually can happen with any variable-- context is a stack of dictionaries, with any keys in the topmost dictionary shadowing any keys further in the stack. Context processor values are inherently near the bottom of the stack, and {{ user }} is typically available from the auth context processor. May you have few gotchas.

FWIW, this actually can happen with any variable– context is a stack of dictionaries, with any keys in the topmost dictionary shadowing any keys further in the stack. Context processor values are inherently near the bottom of the stack, and {{ user }} is typically available from the auth context processor.

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