Lazy evaluation in Django middlewares

Attach a lazy evaluated function as a property of request in a middleware.

from django.contrib.gis.geoip import GeoIP
from django.utils.functional import SimpleLazyObject

def get_country_code(request):
    g = GeoIP()
    location = g.country(request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'])
    country_code = location.get('country_code', 'TW')

    return country_code

class CountryAndSiteMiddleware(object):

    def process_request(self, request):
        request.COUNTRY_CODE = SimpleLazyObject(lambda: get_country_code(request))

Then you could use request.COUNTRY_CODE whenever you want.