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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

Using the template system


A Django project can be configured with one or several template engines (or even zero if you don't use templates). Django ships with a built-in backend for its own template system-the Django Template Language (DTL). Django 1.8 also includes support for the popular alternative Jinja2 (for more information visit http://jinja.pocoo.org/). If you don't have a pressing reason to choose another backend, you should use the DTL-especially if you're writing a pluggable application and you intend to distribute templates. Django's contrib apps that include templates, like django.contrib.admin, use the DTL. All of the examples in this chapter will use the DTL. For more advanced template topics, including configuring third-party template engines, see Chapter 8, Advanced Templates. Before we go about implementing Django templates in your view, lets first dig inside the DTL a little so you can see how it works. Here is the most basic way you can use Django's template system in...