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		jimmybot on June 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Flask 0.7 Released (Python Web Framework) Why would it be good to avoid passing around the request object?

espeed on June 29, 2011 [–]

Armin explains the request object here (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/reqcontext/) and here (http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/quickstart/#id4), and the concept of "context locals" in detail here (http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/local/).

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