Mastering Django: Core

Basic data access

Once you've created a model, Django automatically provides a high-level Python API for working with those models. Try it out by running python manage.py shell and typing the following:

>>> from books.models import Publisher 
>>> p1 = Publisher(name='Apress', address='2855 Telegraph Avenue', 
...     city='Berkeley', state_province='CA', country='U.S.A.', 
...     website='http://www.apress.com/') 
>>> p1.save() 
>>> p2 = Publisher(name="O'Reilly", address='10 Fawcett St.', 
...     city='Cambridge', state_province='MA', country='U.S.A.', 
...     website='http://www.oreilly.com/') 
>>> p2.save() 
>>> publisher_list = Publisher.objects.all() 
>>> publisher_list 
[<Publisher: Publisher object>, <Publisher: Publisher object>] 

These few lines of code accomplish ...