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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

Integrating Django with a legacy database


While Django is best suited for developing new applications, it's quite possible to integrate it into legacy databases. Django includes a couple of utilities to automate as much of this process as possible.

Once you've got Django set up, you'll follow this general process to integrate with an existing database.

Give Django your database parameters

You'll need to tell Django what your database connection parameters are, and what the name of the database is. Do that by editing the DATABASES setting and assigning values to the following keys for the 'default' connection:

  • NAME

  • ENGINE <DATABASE-ENGINE>

  • USER

  • PASSWORD

  • HOST

  • PORT

Auto-generate the models

Django comes with a utility called inspectdb that can create models by introspecting an existing database. You can view the output by running this command:

python manage.py inspectdb 

Save this as a file by using standard Unix output redirection:

python manage.py inspectdb > models.py 

This...