django template wrapper helper

edit:
# ericflo pointed out something that I totally forgot about… render_to_string. And he’s completely correct… It does exactly the same thing and most likely does it better… DOH! Well whatever… here is my version anyway

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Here is a handy little helper I cooked up for dynamically loading dynamic content into a reusable template wrapper. It takes the path of a template and a dict of vars to populate, compiles the template and returns the resulting value as a string. You can then pass in the resulting variable into your main context. Pretty simple but very useful.

def wrap_content(template, var_dict):
    from django.template import Context, loader
    c = Context(var_dict)
    t = loader.get_template(template)
    return t.render(c)

called like so

mod = wrap_content('shared/mod_wrapper.html',{'title':'test title','content':'content test',})