Beginning Django: Web Application Development and Deployment with Python

© Daniel Rubio 2017

Daniel Rubio, Beginning Django, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2787-9_7

7. Django Models

Daniel Rubio¹ 

(1)F. Bahia, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

The typical way for Django applications to interact with data is through Django models. A Django model is an object-oriented Python class that represents the characteristics of an entity. For example, an entity can be a person, a company, a product, or some other concept used by an application.

Because data is at the center of modern applications and the Django framework enforces the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle , Django models often serve as the building blocks for Django projects. Once you have a set of Django models representing an application’s entities, Django models ...