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<div>You probably want to take a look at the request context and proxies. IIRC 'current_user' is a proxy pushed onto the request context.</div>
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On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:44 AM, "<a href="mailto:badrihippo@gmail.com">badrihippo@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:badrihippo@gmail.com">badrihippo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>I know I figured this out sometime, but can't remember now. How does one make a variable that is automatically accessible to all views?
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<div>I mean like the <font face="monospace">current_user</font> variable provided by Flask-Admin: it automatically calculates <font face="serif">current_user</font> and makes it available to the view for each request, without having to manually define it each
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<div>Basically, make it so that instead of...</div>
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<div><font face="monospace">@app.route('/example')</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace">def example():</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace"> my_var = something()</font></div>
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<div><font face="monospace">@app.route('/example/2')</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace">def second_example():</font></div>
<div><font face="monospace"> my_var = something()</font></div>
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<div>...it automatically calculates <font face="monospace">my_var</font> without having to manually define it in each view.</div>
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<div>Okay, I hope that was clear. And thanks in advance!</div>
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<div>—Badri/Hippo</div>
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