Dj(T)ango with Python

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Dj(T)ango with Python

• Ritika Virmani

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What is Django?

• Its 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

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Its all about music

• MVC ? MTV
• Model Class maps to tables
• Template - HTML
• View - Pages

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more about Django

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

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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

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Get started and done!

• To create your project, simply run
• django-admin.py startproject ltyourProjectgt
• __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

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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(maxlength20)
• date models.DateTimeField()
• title models.CharField(maxlength50)
• post models.TextField()
• def __str__(self)
• return self.title
• class Admin
• list_display ('author', 'date')

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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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