Commit 7adae302 authored by James Bennett's avatar James Bennett
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[1.1.X] Fixed #11889: Documented the fact that context processors will...

[1.1.X] Fixed #11889: Documented the fact that context processors will overwrite pre-existing context variables of the same names. Backport of [12669] from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.1.X@12670 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -318,6 +318,13 @@ variable to the context and a second processor adds a variable with the same
name, the second will override the first. The default processors are explained
below.

.. admonition:: When context processors are applied
    When you use ``RequestContext``, the variables you supply directly
    are added first, followed any variables supplied by context
    processors. This means that a context processor may overwrite a
    variable you've supplied, so take care to avoid variable names
    which overlap with those supplied by your context processors.

Also, you can give ``RequestContext`` a list of additional processors, using the
optional, third positional argument, ``processors``. In this example, the
``RequestContext`` instance gets a ``ip_address`` variable::