Django template doesn't seem to be getting my context dictionary

Question

The following template renders with the image from the static directory appearing, but myvar doesn't show up. Somehow {{STATIC_URL}} is being evaluated correctly, but {{myvar}} is empty. What am I missing?

views.py

def home(request):
    return render_to_response('home/home.html', 
        {
        'myvar':"something",
        },
        context_instance=RequestContext(request,{}))

home.html

<html>
<h1>{{myvar}}</h1>

<img src="{{STATIC_URL}}home/Marcy.jpg">
</html>

Does replacing `context_instance=RequestContext(request,{})` with `context_instance=RequestContext(request)` help? — alecxe, Oct 03 '14 at 14:24
Or just `render(request, 'home/home.html', {'myvar': 'something'})`. — Peter DeGlopper, Oct 03 '14 at 14:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '14 at 14:36

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On official documentation of Django 1.7, on render_to_response method, the example uses context_instance=RequestContext(request). So, if you take it off the dict of RequestContext, maybe this works.

answered Oct 03 '14 at 14:36

hermancaldara

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '14 at 21:18

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Was missing something obvious: Error was being thrown when restarting gunicorn. Once fixed, problem went away.

answered Nov 12 '14 at 21:18

Isaac Ray

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Django template doesn't seem to be getting my context dictionary

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