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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:44:28+00:00

So, Generic views are pretty cool, but what I’m interested in is something that’s

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So, Generic views are pretty cool, but what I’m interested in is something that’s a generic template.

so for example, I can give it an object and it’ll just tostring it for me.

or if I give it a list, it’ll just iterate over the objects and tostring them as a ul (or tr, or whatever else it deems necessary).

for most uses you wouldn’t need this. I just threw something together quickly for a friend (a bar stock app, if you must know), and I don’t feel like writing templates.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If there’s a django model for it, you can just stick to django.contrib.admin or django.contrib.databrowse. If not, then you might manage by skipping the django template altogether. example:

    from django.http import HttpResponse
import datetime

def current_datetime(request):
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    html = "<html><body>It is now %s.</body></html>" % now
    return HttpResponse(html)

    But of course you wanted to avoid even writing that much, so instead of doing html, we can use plain text and the pprint module:

    from django.http import HttpResponse
import datetime
from pprint import pformat

def current_datetime(request):
    now = datetime.datetime.now()
    return HttpResponse(pformat(now), mimetype="text/plain")

    edit: Hmm… this seems like something a view decorator should handle: 

    from django.http import HttpResponse
import datetime
import pprint

def prettyprint(fun):
    return lambda request:HttpResponse(
            pprint.pformat(fun(request)), mimetype="text/plain")

@prettyprint
def current_datetime(request):
    return datetime.datetime.now()
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