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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

Internationalization: In URL patterns


Django provides two mechanisms to internationalize URL patterns:

  • Adding the language prefix to the root of the URL patterns to make it possible for LocaleMiddleware to detect the language to activate from the requested URL.

  • Making URL patterns themselves translatable via the django.utils.translation.ugettext_lazy() function.

Using either one of these features requires that an active language be set for each request; in other words, you need to have django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

Language prefix in URL patterns

This function can be used in your root URLconf and Django will automatically prepend the current active language code to all URL patterns defined within i18n_patterns(). Example URL patterns:

from django.conf.urls import include, url 
from django.conf.urls.i18n import i18n_patterns 
from about import views as about_views 
from news import views as news_views 
from sitemap.views import...