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diff --git a/docs/narr/renderers.rst b/docs/narr/renderers.rst index 3059aef35..235dbaf83 100644 --- a/docs/narr/renderers.rst +++ b/docs/narr/renderers.rst @@ -49,10 +49,14 @@ Writing View Callables Which Use a Renderer ------------------------------------------- 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. +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. View configuration can vary the renderer associated with a view callable via the ``renderer`` attribute. For example, this call to |