Core Python Applications Programming, 3rd Edition

Chapter 11. Web Frameworks: Django

Python: the only language with more Web frameworks than keywords.

—Harald Armin Massa, December 2005

In this chapter...

• Introduction

• Web Frameworks

• Introduction to Django

• Projects and Apps

• Your “Hello World” Application (A Blog)

• Creating a Model to Add Database Service

• The Python Application Shell

• The Django Administration App

• Creating the Blog’s User Interface

• Improving the Output

• Working with User Input

• Forms and Model Forms

• More About Views

• *Look-and-Feel Improvements

• *Unit Testing

• *An Intermediate Django App: The TweetApprover

• Resources

11.1. Introduction

In this chapter, we’ll go outside the Python Standard Library and explore one popular Web framework for Python: Django. ...