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16398	HttpResponse object should return self when write() method is called	Jonathan Sawyer	nobody	"My use case:

# Current procedure
def myview(req):
    resp = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/javascript')
    resp.write(json.dumps({'msg': 'Hello World!'}))
    return resp

# Desired procedure
def myview(req):
    resp = HttpResponse(mimetype='application/javascript')
    return resp.write(json.dumps({'msg': 'Hello World!'}))

HttpResponse.write() returns None initially. It would be really nice if .write() would return self so I can return an HttpResponse object. Instead I have to take up an extra line of code (and in my application, that is a lot when duplicated).

An extension on this request could be that all public methods on HttpResponse should return self."	New feature	new	HTTP handling	1.3	Normal				Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	1	0