Question

I’d like to use a number of custom context processors to render some of my template data instead of passing the data every time to the render_to_response method.

Is there any disadvantage (eg memory usage) when adding many context processors to a django project ?

Are there any recommendations for when using context processors instead of passing the data to the templates ?

Answer 1

When you have to use in a lot of templates (almost in every template), something like the user, or DEBUG or other parameters that these don’t have a lot of cost, you must use a context processors. In other case passing to render_to_response