Django Unleashed

15.4.2 Creating the About FlatPage

In Example 15.7, we import the FlatPage model into our shell along with the Site model from the sites app.

Example 15.7: Python Interpreter Code

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>>> from django.contrib.sites.models import Site >>> from django.contrib.flatpages.models import FlatPage

We’ve taken the name spaced string from our settings, django.contrib.app_name, and simply suffixed models. The contributed apps that Django supplies follow the same conventions as developer-created apps. Opening either of the files found at django/contrib/sites/models.py or django/contrib/flatpages/models.py allows us to read the source code for either the Site or FlatPage model class.

The Site model is simple, and we don’t actually ...