What is context_object_name in django views?

Ok, I've got it by myself! :)

It's just a human-understandable name of variable to access from templates

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/class-based-views/generic-display/#making-friendly-template-contexts

If you do not provide "context_object_name", your view may look like this:

<ul>
    {% for publisher in object_list %}
        <li>{{ publisher.name }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

But if you provide like {"context_object_name": "publisher_list"}, then you can write view like:

<ul>
    {% for publisher in publisher_list %}
        <li>{{ publisher.name }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

That means you can change the original parameter name(object_list) into any name through "context_object_name" for your view. Hope that help:)

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