13.1 Introduction
The focus of Part II is Django’s contributed library. Colloquially called contrib, the library is a set of premade apps filled with content for developers to use to make building websites as easy and as quick as possible.
This book uses a rather loose definition of the contributed library. As we discover in this chapter, contrib refers to a very select part of Django’s source code and to a specific set of tools. Nevertheless, in Part II, we also discuss tools that exist outside of contrib because they provide a means for developers to extend behavior rather than having to customize core behavior (the topic of Part III).
In this chapter, we introduce the contributed library by jumping into Django’s actual source code. We see ...
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