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Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database. What it doesn’t abstracts, and doesn’t try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them.
Consider a hypothetical HR department, which wants you to build [...]
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Summary: How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using Wordpress as example. The completed code is available at github or you can see some screnshots
Though there are quite a few good Django blog applications, our blog is based on Wordpress. A number of plugin’s make moving to a Django based app a bad decision for [...]
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Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms.
Basic form
Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it.
Ans. Create a simple form.
class UserForm(forms.Form): username = forms.CharField() [...]
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twitter ready version:
We have released a Django forum application, with some cool features not in any other Django based forum. You can get it here or see it in action.
blog version
There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer is “none [...]
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What is bpython?
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system.
says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation and such stuff.
Unlike iPython, which implements then entire shell functions and emulates the standard python shell, and adds enhancements, bpython just adds features on top of the [...]
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Foss.in is without doubt India’s largest FOSS technology conference. Lakshman gave a talk today on “Python metaclasses and how Django uses them”. Here are the slides from that talk.
Doing magic with python metaclassesView more documents from Usware Technologies.
[Edit] Some reactions, http://twitter.com/jaideep2588/status/6295483833 http://twitter.com/kunalbharati/status/6296572939
And the talk images, http://twitpic.com/rxhn7
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This is not yet another Django vs Rails blog post. It is a compilation of notes I made working with Django after having worked on Rails for years.
In this post I want to give a brief introduction to Django project layout from a Rails developer point of view, on what is there, what is not [...]
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Django has three builtin template loaders which are used to get the templates for rendering.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( ‘django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source’, ‘django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source’, # ‘django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source’, )
Writing your template loader is a awfuly easy. It is a callable which
Returns a tuple of (openfile, filename) if it can find the template. Raise TemplateDoesNotExist if [...]
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This is announcement about our new work, Django Gotchas, a teeny tiny ebook about commonly occurring gotchas with Django. Here is the readme copied from the project.
Django-gotchas is a collections of gotchas which happen commonly when you are working with Django. They are some errors which I have made commonly or seen others do, these [...]
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