Dj(T)ango with Python Ritika Virmani

What is Django? It’s not a Hawaiian dance Developed by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison Rapid Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines Named after Django Reinhardt, a gypsy jazz guitarist Open Source

It’s all about music MVC  MTV : Model – Class maps to tables Template - HTML View - Pages

more about Django Make web development stupidly fast Ease the creation of complex, database- driven websites Reusability and "pluggability" of components DRY

Cool stuff Dynamic administrative interface Lightweight, standalone web server for development and testing Tools for generating cool things like RSS and Atom feeds, Google Sitemaps

Get started… and done! To create your project, simply run django-admin.py startproject __init__.py — Blank module to initialize the package manage.py — command-line utility that lets you interact with this Django project settings.py — Django settings for your project urls.py — URL mappings to views

Get started … and done! [2] 1. At the Command Prompt type: python manage.py startapp blogs 2. Add this to settings.py under INSTALLED_APPS DjangoPrimer.blogs 3. Add to models.py: from django.db import models class Post(models.Model): author = models.CharField(maxlength=20) date = models.DateTimeField() title = models.CharField(maxlength=50) post = models.TextField() def __str__(self): return self.title class Admin: list_display = ('author', 'date') search_fields = ('title', 'post')

Get started … and done! [3] 4. At the Command Prompt type: python manage.py sql blogs 5. At the Command Prompt type: python manage.py syncdb 6. At the Command Prompt type: python manage.py runserver

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