Beginning Django: Web Application Development and Deployment with Python

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Daniel Rubio, Beginning Django, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2787-9_9

9. Django Model Forms and Class Views

Daniel Rubio¹ 

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

In the previous two chapters you learned how Django models are used to move data between a relational database and a Django project. Although this is the main purpose of Django models, there’s another important set of functionalities fulfilled by Django models that isn’t tied directly to a database.

In this chapter you’ll learn how to create Django forms parting from Django models, a process that further extends Django’s DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle. You’ll learn how a Django model can produce a Django form, including its fields, validations, and ...