Very nice snippets, though they're meant to work only with Django's default class views.

A few months ago I started using a small class-based views library called aino-utkik[1] and haven't looked back.

Instead of this:

    class ArtistLogin(FormView):
        form_class = ArtistLoginForm
        template_name = 'artists/artist_login.html'

        def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
            request.session.set_test_cookie()
            return super(ArtistLogin, self).get(request, *args, **kwargs)

        def form_valid(self, form):
            login(self.request, form.artist)
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('artist_mypage'))

        def get_form_kwargs(self):
            kwargs = super(ArtistLogin, self).get_form_kwargs()
            kwargs['request'] = self.request
            return kwargs

I can write this:

    class ArtistLogin(View):
        def setup(self):
            self.c.form = ArtistLoginForm(
                request=self.request, data=self.request.POST or None)

        def get(self):
            self.request.session.set_test_cookie()

        def post(self):
            if self.c.form.is_valid():
                login(self.request, self.c.form.artist)
                return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('artist_mypage'))

which I find way more elegant.

[1] https://github.com/aino/aino-utkik