render_to_string - Django 1.8 changed how templates operate

[philippeowagner]

• http://django.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/templates.html#django.template.loader.render_to_string

• based on https://github.com/mysociety/mapit/blob/master/mapit/djangopatch.py#L4-L12

  """ Django 1.8 changed how templates operate. """
  import django
  if django.get_version() >= '1.8':
      from django.template.loader import render_to_string
  else:
      from django.template import loader, RequestContext
  
      def render_to_string(template_name, context=None, request=None):
          context_instance = RequestContext(request) if request else None
          return loader.render_to_string(template_name, context, context_instance
  

[bashu]

+1

[ad-m]

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