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diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index 9a1ba190d..61b6ae316 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ This view callable function is handed a single piece of information: the :term:`request`. The *request* is an instance of the :term:`WebOb` ``Request`` class representing the browser's request to our server. -.. note:: Dictionaries (typically) provide values to :term:`template`s. +.. note:: Dictionaries provide values to :term:`template`s. This view is configured to invoke a :term;`renderer` on a template. The dictionary the view returns (on line 6) provides the value the renderer diff --git a/docs/narr/renderers.rst b/docs/narr/renderers.rst index 235dbaf83..4046c67fa 100644 --- a/docs/narr/renderers.rst +++ b/docs/narr/renderers.rst @@ -52,11 +52,9 @@ As we've seen, a view callable needn't always return a Response object. Instead, it may return an arbitrary Python object, with the expectation that a :term:`renderer` will convert that object into a response instance on your behalf. Some renderers use a templating system; other renderers use object -serialization techniques. Because renderers inject variable data into some -output (otherwise a static Response object could be returned) the renderer -must have some means of identifying the data and mapping its transformation -into the desired output. Often, as the means of providing this mapping, the -object supplied to the renderer is a Python dictionary. +serialization techniques. In practice, renderers obtain application data +values from Python dictionaries so, in practice, view callables which use +renderers return Python dictionaries. View configuration can vary the renderer associated with a view callable via the ``renderer`` attribute. For example, this call to |