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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

Your second view: dynamic content


Our Hello World view was instructive in demonstrating the basics of how Django works, but it wasn't an example of a dynamic web page, because the content of the page is always the same. Every time you view /hello/, you'll see the same thing; it might as well be a static HTML file.

For our second view, let's create something more dynamic-a web page that displays the current date and time. This is a nice, simple next step, because it doesn't involve a database or any user input-just the output of your server's internal clock. It's only marginally more exciting than Hello World, but it'll demonstrate a few new concepts. This view needs to do two things: calculate the current date and time, and return an HttpResponse containing that value. If you have experience with Python, you know that Python includes a datetime module for calculating dates. Here's how to use it:

>>> import datetime 
>>> now = datetime.datetime.now() 
>>&gt...