Django RESTful Web Services

Working with the Django shell and diving deeply into serialization and deserialization

We can launch our default Python interactive shell in our virtual environment and make all the Django project modules available before it starts. This way, we can check that the serializer works as expected. We will do this to understand how serialization works in Django.

Run the following command to launch the interactive shell. Make sure you are within the restful01 folder in the terminal, Command Prompt, or Windows Powershell:

python manage.py shell

You will notice a line that says (InteractiveConsole) is displayed after the usual lines that introduce your default Python interactive shell. The following screenshot shows the Django shell launched in a ...