An arguably nicer and less verbose way to handle defining view files in Django.

decorators.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from django.shortcuts import render

def template(template_path, content_type = 'text/html'):
    """
        A Decorator that simplifies a lot of Django view-related cruft, in
        regards to rather verbose view serving.

        This needs some optimization. This currently caches nothing.
    """
    def parse(view_function):
        def process(*args, **kwargs):
            context = view_function(*args, **kwargs)
            return render(args[0], template_path, context, content_type = content_type)
        return process
    return parse

views.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from *.decorators import template

@template('workers/dashboard.html')
def dashboard(request):
    """ 
        Handles serving a dashboard page and such.
    """  
    return {'a': 12345}

I'm a fan of a decorator to define view files, as function names can vary wildly in larger environments. A decorator named @template is pretty apparent that "hey, this is returning a view". It obviously doesn't fit every use case, but nothing does; just another possible option.