Django - accessing the RequestContext from within a custom filter

Question

I\'ve got a filter currency, which takes a value in USD and converts it to a currency (either USD or GBP). The currency to convert to is stored in the session,

Answer 1

A somehow less hacky solution to Daniel Rhoden's proposal is, to use threading.local(). Define a middleware class, which stores your request as a global object inside your local thread, and add that class to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.

Now a template filter can easily access that request object.