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Obtain context from within Django custom template filter
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| """ | |
| What if you suddenly need to have access to the context object from within | |
| certain filters, and it would be costly to alter its syntax? Well, that | |
| just happend to me. Here is my solution. | |
| """ | |
| def get_context(max_depth=4): | |
| """A simple (and perhaps dangerous) way of obtaining a context. Keep | |
| in mind these shortcomings: | |
| 1. There is no guarantee this returns the right 'context'. |