Question

Whenever someone loads a page, I want to print “Hello” in console.

I don’t want to add a decorator to all my 100 views. That’s silly.
I sort of want this decorator to automatically be added to my views.
Hmm…

Answer 1

Middleware: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/middleware/#writing-your-own-middleware

Define a middleware class, override one of the functions defined above, print “Hello”, return the appropriate object (according to docs), and add the middleware class to your settings.py

class PrintHelloMiddleware(object):
    def process_response(self, request, response):
        print "Hello"
        return None

# settings.py
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( # ... usual middleware
                       'path.to.my.middleware.PrintHelloMiddleware',
                      )