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authorChris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>2012-02-15 22:06:30 -0500
committerChris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>2012-02-15 22:06:30 -0500
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Use req instead of r for #413. It's more likely that somebody is already passing something named r, and a template may depend on its existence or nonexistence to conditionalize rendering a bit of html.
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@@ -284,9 +284,12 @@ Minor Feature Additions
something like "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
'rfind'".
-- The system value ``r`` is now supplied to renderers as an alias for
+- The system value ``req`` is now supplied to renderers as an alias for
``request``. This means that you can now, for example, in a template, do
- ``r.route_url(...)`` instead of ``request.route_url(...)``.
+ ``req.route_url(...)`` instead of ``request.route_url(...)``. This is
+ purely a change to reduce the amount of typing required to use request
+ methods and attributes from within templates. The value ``request`` is
+ still available too, this is just an alternative.
Backwards Incompatibilities
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