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Django is an open-source server-side web application framework written in Python. It is designed to reduce the effort required to create complex data-driven websites and web applications, with a special focus on less code, no-redundancy and being more explicit than implicit.

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Django: The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Django is a high-level web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers and maintained by the non-profit Django Software Foundation (DSF). it takes care of much of the hassle of Web development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. It’s free and open source.

Django follows the (model-view-controller) architectural pattern. This consists of:

  • an object-relational mapper that mediates between data models
    (Python classes) and a relational database ("Model")

  • a system for processing requests with a web templating system ("View")

  • a regular-expression-based URL dispatcher ("Controller")

The team prefers to think of Django as an "MTV" framework, where 'M' is the model, 'T' is the template and 'V' is view.

In , 'views' describe which data are presented while 'templates' describe how that data is presented.

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Does Django scale?

I'm building a web application with Django. The reasons I chose Django were: I wanted to work with free/open-source tools. I like Python and feel it's a long-term language, whereas regarding Ruby I wasn't sure, and PHP seemed like a huge hassle to…
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What is the difference between null=True and blank=True in Django?

When we add a database field in django we generally write: models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True) The same is done with ForeignKey, DecimalField etc. What is the basic difference in having null=True only blank=True…
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Is there a list of Pytz Timezones?

I would like to know what are all the possible values for the timezone argument in the Python library pytz. How to do it?
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How do I do a not equal in Django queryset filtering?

In Django model QuerySets, I see that there is a __gt and __lt for comparative values, but is there a __ne or != (not equals)? I want to filter out using a not equals. For example, for Model: bool a; int x; I want to do results =…
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How can I combine two or more querysets in a Django view?

I am trying to build the search for a Django site I am building, and in that search, I am searching in three different models. And to get pagination on the search result list, I would like to use a generic object_list view to display the results.…
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How can I temporarily disable a foreign key constraint in MySQL?

Is it possible to temporarily disable constraints in MySQL? I have two Django models, each with a foreign key to the other one. Deleting instances of a model returns an error because of the foreign key constraint: cursor.execute("DELETE FROM…
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How to upload a file in Django?

As a newbie to Django, I am having difficulty making an upload app in Django 1.3. I could not find any up-to-date example/snippets. May someone post a minimal but complete (Model, View, Template) example code to do so?
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What is a "slug" in Django?

When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a "slug". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is this slug-thing supposed to be used? (I have read its definition in this…
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How to check Django version

I have to use Python and Django for our application. So I have two versions of Python, 2.6 and 2.7. Now I have installed Django. I could run the sample application for testing Django succesfuly. But how do I make sure whether Django uses the 2.6 or…
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How to debug in Django, the good way?

So, I started learning to code in Python and later Django. The first times it was hard looking at tracebacks and actually figure out what I did wrong and where the syntax error was. Some time has passed now and some way along the way, I guess I got…
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How to revert the last migration?

I've made a migration that added a new table and want to revert it and delete the migration, without creating a new migration. How do I do it? Is there a command to revert last migration and then I can simply delete the migration file?
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Set up a scheduled job?

I've been working on a web app using Django, and I'm curious if there is a way to schedule a job to run periodically. Basically I just want to run through the database and make some calculations/updates on an automatic, regular basis, but I can't…
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Separation of business logic and data access in django

I am writing a project in Django and I see that 80% of the code is in the file models.py. This code is confusing and, after a certain time, I cease to understand what is really happening. Here is what bothers me: I find it ugly that my model level…
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Capturing URL parameters in request.GET

I am currently defining regular expressions in order to capture parameters in a URL, as described in the tutorial. How do I access parameters from the URL as part the HttpRequest object? My HttpRequest.GET currently returns an empty QueryDict…
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How to reset Django admin password?

I am using Django (version 1.3) and have forgotten both admin username and password. How to reset both? And is it possible to make a normal user into admin, and then remove admin status?
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