[Django]-Why does Django's render() function need the "request" argument?

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The render() shortcut renders templates with a request context. Template context processors take the request object and return a dictionary which is added to the context.

A common template context processor is the auth context processor, which takes the request object, and adds the logged-in user to the context.

If you don’t need to render the template with a request context, you can use request=None.

def my_view(request):
    return render(None, "my_template.html", {'foo': 'bar'})
👤Alasdair

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For rendering a template outside of the context of a view (i.e. without a request object), one can use render_to_string():

from django.template.loader import render_to_string

render_to_string('path/to/template.html', context={'key': 'val'})
👤zepp133

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In django render is used for loading the templates.So for this we 

import-from django.shortcuts import render

its a template shortcut.
Rendering is the process of gathering data (if any) and load the associated templates

👤rahul shukla

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