Using templates in views

You've learned the basics of using the template system; now let's use this knowledge to create a view.

Recall the current_datetime view in mysite.views, which we started in the previous chapter. Here's what it looks like:

from django.http import HttpResponse 
import datetime 
 
def current_datetime(request): 
 
    now = datetime.datetime.now() 
    html = "<html><body>It is now %s.</body></html>" % now 
    return HttpResponse(html)

Let's change this view to use Django's template system. At first, you might think to do something like this:

from django.template import Template, Context from django.http import HttpResponse import datetime def current_datetime(request): now = datetime.datetime.now() t = Template("<html><body>It is now {{ current_date ...

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