Inspect vars directly in your views (https://djangosnippets.org/snippets/743/)
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import linebreaksbr
from django.utils.html import escape
try:
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
except ImportError: # v0.96 and 0.97-pre-autoescaping compat
def mark_safe(x): return x
from pprint import pformat
def rawdump(x):
if hasattr(x, '__dict__'):
d = {
'__str__':str(x),
'__unicode__':unicode(x),
'__repr__':repr(x),
}
d.update(x.__dict__)
x = d
output = pformat(x)+'\n'
return output
def dump(x):
return mark_safe(linebreaksbr(escape(rawdump(x))))
register = template.Library()
register.filter('rawdump', rawdump)
register.filter('dump', dump)