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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

The low-level framework


Behind the scenes, the high-level RSS framework uses a lower-level framework for generating feeds' XML. This framework lives in a single module: django/utils/feedgenerator.py. You use this framework on your own, for lower-level feed generation. You can also create custom feed generator subclasses for use with the feed_type Feed option.

SyndicationFeed classes

The feedgenerator module contains a base class:

  • django.utils.feedgenerator.SyndicationFeed

and several subclasses:

  • django.utils.feedgenerator.RssUserland091Feed

  • django.utils.feedgenerator.Rss201rev2Feed

  • django.utils.feedgenerator.Atom1Feed

Each of these three classes knows how to render a certain type of feed as XML. They share this interface:

SyndicationFeed.__init__()

Initialize the feed with the given dictionary of metadata, which applies to the entire feed. Required keyword arguments are:

  • title

  • link

  • description

There's also a bunch of other optional keywords:

  • language

  • author_email

  • author_name

  • author_link...