CHAPTER 3
Models
Data is at the center of most modern Web applications, and Django aims to provide support for a variety of data structures and persistence options. Models are the primary aspect of the traditional MVC model that Django uses as expected. Models are an essential part of any application that needs to persist data across multiple requests, sessions or even server instances.
Django models are defined as standard Python classes, with a wealth of additional features added in automatically. Behind the scenes, an object-relational mapper (ORM) allows these classes and their instances access to databases. Without this ORM, developers would ...
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