Django render_to_response() with parameter names specified

I am not 100% sure whether this is a Django or a Python question, but I think it's got something to do with Django.

As I am new to the Django world, I am trying to establish the good habit of explicitly putting down parameter names when making function calls.

In the case of render_to_response(), I would have something like the following:

render_to_response(template='lend_borrow/MyAccount_mod.html',
                   dictionary={'user_form': user_form, 'profile_form': profile_form, 'profile': profile_obj},
                   context_instance=RequestContext(request))

But with that, I got an error, "render_to_string() got an unexpected keyword argument 'template'".

In order for that render_to_response() to work in my view function, I had to change it to

render_to_response('lend_borrow/MyAccount_mod.html',
                    {'user_form': user_form, 'profile_form': profile_form, 'profile': profile_obj},
                    RequestContext(request))

OR

render_to_response('lend_borrow/MyAccount_mod.html',
                    {'user_form': user_form, 'profile_f开发者_StackOverflow中文版orm': profile_form, 'profile': profile_obj},
                    context_instance=RequestContext(request))

QUESTION: Why is the first approach of calling render_to_response() giving me an error?

render_to_response is a wrapper around HttpResponse. However, HttpResponse takes rendered content, not a template name. Therefore, render_to_response calls render_to_string first, and the parameter in render_to_string is template_name not template.

However, prefixing parameter names isn't necessarily "good practice". Good practice is to follow convention and convention is to not use parameter names in render_to_response, except for context_instance.

The parameter name is template_name, not template.