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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Generic views of objects


Django's generic views really shine when it comes to presenting views of your database content. Because it's such a common task, Django comes with a handful of built-in generic views that make generating list and detail views of objects incredibly easy.

Let's start by looking at some examples of showing a list of objects or an individual object. We'll be using these models:

# models.py 
from django.db import models 
 
class Publisher(models.Model): 
    name = models.CharField(max_length=30) 
    address = models.CharField(max_length=50) 
    city = models.CharField(max_length=60) 
    state_province = models.CharField(max_length=30) 
    country = models.CharField(max_length=50) 
    website = models.URLField() 
 
    class Meta: 
        ordering = ["-name"] 
 
    def __str__(self): 
        return self.name 
 
class Author(models.Model): 
    salutation = models.CharField...