render_to_response always pass a variable

Question

I'm finding myself always passing a 'user' variable to every call to render_to_response

A lot of my renders looks like this

return render_to_response('some/template', {'my':context,'user':user})

Is there a way to automatically send this 'user' variable without manually adding it to the context each time a method is called?

Answer 1

First, read this. Then:

def some_view(request):
    # ...
    return render_to_response('my_template.html',
                          my_data_dictionary,
                          context_instance=RequestContext(request))