django/django — pull request #3601 by aaugustin (2014-11-22 08:50:16+00:00)
Title: Avoided rewrapping Contexts in render_to_response.

This change preserves backwards-compatibility for a very common misuse
of render_to_response which even occurred in the official documentation.

It fixes that misuse wherever it happened in the code base and docs.

Context.__init__ is documented as accepting a dict and nothing else.
Since Context is dict-like, Context(Context({})) could work to some
extent. However, things get complicated with RequestContext and that
gets in the way of refactoring the template engine. This is the real
rationale for this change.