Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Getting ready

Start by creating the music app from the Importing data from a local CSV file and Preparing paginated sitemaps for search engines recipes. Specifically, follow the steps in the Getting ready section to set up the models, forms, views, URL configurations, and templates.

To the view listing songs, we will add filtering by artist that later will be used by the RSS feed too:

1. Add a filter form to forms.py. It will have the artist choice field with all artist names sorted alphabetically with letter case ignored:

# myproject/apps/music/forms.pyfrom django import formsfrom django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _from .models import Song# …class SongFilterForm(forms.Form):    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):        super().__init__ ...