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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

Using different settings for production


So far in this book, we've dealt with only a single settings file: the settings.py generated by django-admin startproject. But as you get ready to deploy, you'll likely find yourself needing multiple settings files to keep your development environment isolated from your production environment. (For example, you probably won't want to change DEBUG from False to True whenever you want to test code changes on your local machine.) Django makes this very easy by allowing you to use multiple settings files. If you'd like to organize your settings files into production and development settings, you can accomplish this in one of three ways:

  • Set up two full-blown, independent settings files.

  • Set up a base settings file (say, for development) and a second (say, production) settings file that merely imports from the first one and defines whatever overrides it needs to define.

  • Use only a single settings file that has Python logic to change the settings based on context...