Global requests for Django

globalrequests.py

import inspect

def get_request():
    """Walk up the stack, return the nearest first argument named "request"."""
    frame = None
    try:
        for f in inspect.stack()[1:]:
            frame = f[0]
            code = frame.f_code
            if code.co_varnames[:1] == ("request",):
                return frame.f_locals["request"]
            elif code.co_varnames[:2] == ("self", "request",):
                return frame.f_locals["request"]
    finally:
        del frame