Question

I would like keep reusing some functions I’ve created on many of my django views so I don’t have to write them over and over on every view.

So I created a folder with a __init__.py in it. In the same folder I also created a myfunctions.py file where I placed my functions I would like to reuse on my django views.

Here is just a very simple test function I put in myfunctions.py to see if if I can reuse the function and especially the variable from that function in my views:

def test_function():
    test_variable = 1

I would like to just call the test_function() on a view and to deliver the test_variable value (of 1 in this case) on a template I created. The template for theat view has already a tag {{ test_valiable }}.

My problem is that when I call the test_function() on my view I don’t see the test_variable value passed to the {{ test_valiable }} tag in the template associated with my view.

The way I called the function in my view is:

test_function()

What am I not doing right?

Answer 1

test_variable is a local variable so you cant see it after function finished.
You should rewrite your function to this:

def test_function():
    test_variable = 1
    return test_variable

And use it in a views.py

def View(request):
   result = test_function()
   return render_to_response('template', {'test_valiable' : result })