Render a Django template passing all local variables to the RequestContext automatically.

renderlocals.py

import django.shortcuts
import inspect

def renderlocals(template):
    """
    Renders the template in a RequestContext, passing all local
    variables to the request context, and returns the resulting
    HttpResponse.

    Example usage:

        def my_view(request):
            foo = 42
            return renderlocals('mytemplate.html')
    """
    locals = inspect.stack()[1][0].f_locals
    request = locals.get('request')
    return django.shortcuts.render(request, template, locals)

Note that this works on CPython only :)

Thanks for the info. The (C)Python docs (http://docs.python.org/library/inspect.html) led me to believe only the currentframe() function is CPython-only. I haven't tested it with PyPy or other interpreters - I suppose there's a different but equivalent way of getting the parent stack frame there?