merge contributors

3 files changed, 60 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
index 027fc0857..c3995aaba 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
@@ -174,3 +174,5 @@ Contributors
 - Marin Rukavina, 2012/05/03
 
 - Marc Abramowitz, 2012/06/13
+
+- Jeff Cook, 2012/06/16
diff --git a/docs/narr/hooks.rst b/docs/narr/hooks.rst
index a2143b3c5..332805152 100644
--- a/docs/narr/hooks.rst
+++ b/docs/narr/hooks.rst
@@ -289,6 +289,36 @@ keys added to the renderer globals dictionary by all
 :class:`pyramid.events.BeforeRender` subscribers and renderer globals
 factories must be unique.
 
+The dictionary returned from the view is accessible through the
+:attr:`rendering_val` attribute of a :class:`~pyramid.events.BeforeRender`
+event.
+
+Suppose you return ``{'mykey': 'somevalue', 'mykey2': 'somevalue2'}`` from
+your view callable, like so:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+   :linenos:
+
+   from pyramid.view import view_config
+
+   @view_config(renderer='some_renderer')
+   def myview(request):
+       return {'mykey': 'somevalue', 'mykey2': 'somevalue2'}
+
+:attr:`rendering_val` can be used to access these values from the
+:class:`~pyramid.events.BeforeRender` object:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+   :linenos:
+
+   from pyramid.events import subscriber
+   from pyramid.events import BeforeRender
+
+   @subscriber(BeforeRender)
+   def read_return(event):
+       # {'mykey': 'somevalue'} is returned from the view
+       print(event.rendering_val['mykey'])
+
 See the API documentation for the :class:`~pyramid.events.BeforeRender` event
 interface at :class:`pyramid.interfaces.IBeforeRender`.
 
diff --git a/pyramid/events.py b/pyramid/events.py
index e181ef33f..db274823c 100644
--- a/pyramid/events.py
+++ b/pyramid/events.py
@@ -200,10 +200,34 @@ class BeforeRender(dict):
     setting an overriding value (which can be done using ``.get`` or
     ``__contains__`` of the event object).
 
-    The event has an additional attribute named ``rendering_val``.  This is
-    the (non-system) value returned by a view or passed to ``render*`` as
-    ``value``.  This feature is new in Pyramid 1.2.
-    
+    The dictionary returned from the view is accessible through the
+    :attr:`rendering_val` attribute of a :class:`~pyramid.events.BeforeRender`
+    event.
+
+    Suppose you return ``{'mykey': 'somevalue', 'mykey2': 'somevalue2'}`` from
+    your view callable, like so::
+
+      from pyramid.view import view_config
+
+      @view_config(renderer='some_renderer')
+      def myview(request):
+          return {'mykey': 'somevalue', 'mykey2': 'somevalue2'}
+
+    :attr:`rendering_val` can be used to access these values from the
+    :class:`~pyramid.events.BeforeRender` object::
+
+      from pyramid.events import subscriber
+      from pyramid.events import BeforeRender
+
+      @subscriber(BeforeRender)
+      def read_return(event):
+          # {'mykey': 'somevalue'} is returned from the view
+          print(event.rendering_val['mykey'])
+
+    In other words, :attr:`rendering_val` is the (non-system) value returned by a
+    view or passed to ``render*`` as ``value``.  This feature is new in Pyramid
+    1.2.
+
     For a description of the values present in the renderer globals dictionary,
     see :ref:`renderer_system_values`.