A context is just some information. They will usually be QuerySets, but they could be anything. They will be available from within your templates. Oh, and they are a breeze to make.
When building my site I wanted to have a selection of random entries available on the navigation bar on each page, lets look at how we can do this with a context.
Contexts are simply functions that take one argument, request, and return a dictionary of values. The one I wrote looks like this:
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