Useful optional argument for generic views

[sasch.pe@…]

Hello everybody, i played a bit with generic views and thought, that it would be useful to have a 'template_base' optional argument. If you want to pass a custom template to a generic view, you currently have to add a 'template_name' argument to the parameter dictionary. For example, i have an app called 'blog' with a template-folder inside, Django has no problem with that, but the default generic views want to see my html-files in 'blog/templates/blog/'. So, when i provide something like this:

info_dict = {

'queryset' : Spam.objects.all(),
'date_field' : 'pub_date',

}

i would like to have that:

info_dict = {

'queryset' : Spam.objects.all(),
'date_field' : 'pub_date',
'template_base' : 'templates',

}

This would simplyfy my URLconfs, currently if have to do a

...
dict(blog_dict,template_name='Spam.html'),
...

in every URLconf. Maybe you could give it a tought.