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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

Oracle notes


Django supports Oracle Database Server versions 11.1 and higher. Version 4.3.1 or higher of the cx_Oracle (http://cx-oracle.sourceforge.net/) Python driver is required, although we recommend version 5.1.3 or later as these versions support Python 3.

Note that due to a Unicode-corruption bug in cx_Oracle 5.0, that version of the driver should not be used with Django; cx_Oracle 5.0.1 resolved this issue, so if you'd like to use a more recent cx_Oracle, use version 5.0.1.

cx_Oracle 5.0.1 or greater can optionally be compiled with the WITH_UNICODE environment variable. This is recommended but not required.

In order for the python manage.py migrate command to work, your Oracle database user must have privileges to run the following commands:

  • CREATE TABLE

  • CREATE SEQUENCE

  • CREATE PROCEDURE

  • CREATE TRIGGER

To run a project's test suite, the user usually needs these additional privileges:

  • CREATE USER

  • DROP USER

  • CREATE TABLESPACE

  • DROP TABLESPACE

  • CREATE SESSION WITH ADMIN OPTION

  • CREATE...