Django: How do I update a model after a view has been rendered?

There's no need for anything clever here. Rendering a template doesn't need to be the end of the view - that only comes when you actually return that as a response. They don't have to be in the same step.

Catch the return value from the view or function, do some processing, then kick it up the stack.

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