Django Unleashed

2.3.1 Webpage Data

Webpage data are typically stored in the views.py file of any app. This may seem confusing, given the Model-View-Controller architecture. For the moment, remember that Django views and MVC Views are unrelated concepts!

Open the file found at /helloworld/views.py. Erase the contents of the file and replace them with the code shown in Example 2.3.

Example 2.3: Project Code

helloworld/views.py in 9937ef66c0

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1  from django.http import HttpResponse 2 3 4  def greeting(request): 5      return HttpResponse('Hello World!')

Our webpage is simply a Python function called greeting(). Given our understanding of HTTP request/response, we can already see how Django handles this for us. Django gives our function ...