Book description
Learn how to leverage Django, the leading Python web application development framework, to its full potential in this advanced tutorial and reference. Updated for Django 1.5 and Python 3, Pro Django, Second Edition examines in great detail the complex problems that Python web application developers can face and how to solve them. It provides in-depth information about advanced tools and techniques available in every Django installation, running the gamut from the theory of Django's internal operations to actual code that solves real-world problems for high-volume environments.
With Pro Django, Second Edition you'll learn how to:
Use Django's models, views, forms, and templates
Handle HTTP and customizing back ends
Get the most out of Django's common tooling
Employ Django in various environments
Build an API using Django's own components
Make this code reusable—even distributable
Pro Django, Second Edition goes above and beyond other books, leaving the basics far behind and showing how Django can do things even its core developers never expected. By drawing on the dynamic nature of Python, you can write Django applications that stretch the limits of what you thought possible!
What you'll learn
See how to use Django's models, views, forms, and templates
Handle HTTP and customizing back ends
Use Django's common tooling
Employ Django in various environments
Build a business software suite for use in the corporate world
Make this code reusable—even distributable
Who this book is for
This book is for companies looking for a framework capable of supporting enterprise needs, as well as advanced Python or web developers looking to solve unusual, complex problems.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: Understanding Django
- CHAPTER 2: Django Is Python
- CHAPTER 3: Models
- CHAPTER 4: URLs and Views
- CHAPTER 5: Forms
- CHAPTER 6: Templates
- CHAPTER 7: Handling HTTP
- CHAPTER 8: Backend Protocols
- CHAPTER 9: Common Tools
- CHAPTER 10: Coordinating Applications
- CHAPTER 11: Enhancing Applications
- Index
Product information
- Title: Pro Django, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2013
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430258094
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