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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

Definitions


Internationalization

Refers to the process of designing programs for the potential use of any locale. This process is usually done by software developers. Internationalization includes marking text (such as UI elements and error messages) for future translation, abstracting the display of dates and times so that different local standards may be observed, providing support for differing time zones, and generally making sure that the code contains no assumptions about the location of its users. You'll often see internationalization abbreviated I18N. (The 18 refers to the number of letters omitted between the initial I and the terminal N.)

Localization

Refers to the process of actually translating an internationalized program for use in a particular locale. This work is usually done by translators. You'll sometimes see localization abbreviated as L10N.

Here are some other terms that will help us to handle a common language:

locale name

A locale name, either a language specification of...