[Answered ]-Django View and helper

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The Django way is to use class-based views and create custom Mixin to contain repeated code. So the Mixin could look like this:

class MenuContextMixin(object):
    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        context = super(MenuContextMixin, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['menu'] = MyCategory.objects.all()
        return context

And its usage would be like this:

class IndexView(MenuContextMixin, TemplateView):
    template_name = "index.html"

Since you are using function-based views, I think best solution would be to write a helper function to extend your context. E.g. views.py:

def get_extra_context():
    return {
        'menu': MyCategory.objects.all(),
    }

def index(request):
    ...
    context.update(get_extra_context())
    return render_to_response('index.html', context)
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