Django: How can I identify the calling view from a template?

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Since Django 1.5, the url_name is accessible using:

request.resolver_match.url_name

Before that, you can use a Middleware for that :

from django.core.urlresolvers import resolve

class ViewNameMiddleware(object):  
    def process_view(self, request, view_func, view_args, view_kwargs):
        url_name = resolve(request.path).url_name
        request.url_name = url_name

Then adding this in MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, and in templates I have this:

{% if request.url_name == "url_name" %} ... {% endif %}

considering a RequestContext(request) is always passed to the render function. I prefer using url_name for urls, but one can use resolve().app_name and resolve().func.name, but this doesn’t work with decorators – the decorator function name is returned instead.

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