Is the `set_cookie` variable the correct way to signal that the cookie should be set? It does not seems pythonic to me: cookie = request.COOKIES.get(TIMEZONE_COOKIE_NAME) set_cookie = False if cookie and cookie in pytz.all_timezones_set: timezone.activate(pytz.timezone(cookie)) elif request.ip: geo = GeoIP2() try: time_zone = geo.city(request.ip).time_zone if time_zone: timezone.activate(pytz.timezone(time_zone)) set_cookie = True except GeoIP2Error: self.logger.warning('Could not determine time zone of ip address: %s', request.ip) response = self.get_response(request) if set_cookie: response.set_cookie(TIMEZONE_COOKIE_NAME, time_zone) return response