Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Django introduction

In this section, we are going to review how to start working with the Django framework. To install django, just execute the pip install django command.

Once installed, we can use the django-admin.py script to create the file structure that's necessary to create applications with the framework.

These are the self-generated files that appear when you run the $ django-admin.py startproject djangoApplication command:

• __init__.py tells Python that this folder is a Python package and allows Python to import all of the scripts into the folder as modules.
• manage.py is a utility script that executes from the command line. It contains some functions to manage your website.
• settings.py contains the settings of your website. This ...