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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

Installing Django manually


  1. Download the latest release from the Django Project download page (https://www.djangoproject.com/download/).

  2. Untar the downloaded file (for example, tar xzvf Django-X.Y.tar.gz, where X.Y is the version number of the latest release). If you're using Windows, you can download the command-line tool bsdtar to do this, or you can use a GUI-based tool such as 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/).

  3. Change into the directory created in step 2 (for example, cd Django-X.Y).

  4. If you're using Linux, Mac OS X or some other flavor of Unix, enter the command sudo python setup.py install at the shell prompt. If you're using Windows, start a command shell with administrator privileges and run the command python setup.py install. This will install Django in your Python installation's site-packages directory.

Note

Removing an old version

If you use this installation technique, it is particularly important that you remove any existing installations of Django first (see below). Otherwise, you can...