django forms - reusing form request functions

I have a base.html which most of my pages inherit. Inside it defines a header which contains a search box. The code for the search box is some thing along the lines of....

if request.method == 'POST':
    if 'search_button' in request.POS开发者_开发问答T:
        location = request.POST['location']

         # Do something with location here and redirect to another page...

        return HttpResponseRedirect('/lostandfound')

I have a couple of questions. First of all, how do I ensure that this code is sat in all my other views without rewriting it every time, this wouldn't be very DRY!!

Also how do I redirect to another page and pass the variable 'location' along with it? HttpResponseRedirect isn't the right way to do it i'm sure!

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You should POST your search form to it's own search view, and display the results on that page.