Differentiate Context, Request Context in django

Question

What is the difference between Context, Request Context in django? Why do we need context processors?

Answer 1

RequestContext simply goes through your TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS setting and adds variables in addition to the ones you explicitly pass to the context class.

The context processors are literally just a function that accepts request as the first argument and returns a dictionary to be added into the context.

Why do you need them? Because some very common operations like adding the currently logged in user or STATIC_URL variables to the context would get highly repetitive if not automated.