Django how to partial render

Question

How do I call a view method from a template level like partial render in RoR? The problem is perfectly illustrated in this blog. I can use include to include templates in templates but then I would have to match all the variable names across layers of templates. I really would want to include views in templates and decouple layers. The blog was written a year ago. Is there a better solution since?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you're looking for {% include '_partial.html' %}.

Answer 2

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/?from=olddocs#include

If you use the 'with' argument when including a partial, you don't need to match variables - You can rename a variable before including a template. I've found this technique enables me to create far more reusable templates. Also it is much less work than creating inclusion tags. Eg:

{% include 'partials/blog_entry.html' with blog_entry=my_blog_entry %}