how to access context?

[silentjay]

I'd like to access context so my shortcodes can access my model instances, however it seems every part of django-markdown-shortcodes is completely outside the normal scope?

[silentjay]

In the end I modified the code along these lines:

{{ page.content|expand_shortcodes:page.site|safe }}

@register.filter
@stringfilter
def expand_shortcodes(val, extra_var=None):
    return expand_shortcodes_func(val, extra_var)

def expand_shortcodes(document, extra_var):
    ...
    parameters = [item for item in flattened_params if item != '']
    parameters.append(extra_var)
    ...

Hacky as hell but couldn't think of another way.