On 20 jan, 23:26, bfrederi <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a general question about creating a response in Django. > > If I am creating a response using the return > django.shortcuts.render_to_response function: > > return render_to_response( > 'template_name.html', > {'huge_dictionary_of_data': huge_dictionary_of_data,}, > RequestContext(request, {}), > ) > > And the data that I am using to render the template with is 2Mb in > size or more, is it more taxing on Django (Apache-mod_python) than > just taking the parts that I need from that giant 2Mb dictionary of > data and rendering it that way? > > I just wanted to know if it would be a significant difference if I > passed the whole dictionary versus just the parts I need to > render_to_response?
If it's a normal Python dict, then it doesn't make any difference (at least wrt/ resource usage), since Python doesn't copy objects passed as arguments to functions (FWIW, Python never copy anything unless explicitely asked for). But I stronly suggest you find a way to avoid loading 2mb dataset if you only need a subpart of it... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
