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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

By : Ravindran
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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

4.7 (7)
By: Ravindran

Overview of this book

If you want to learn how best to utilize commonly found patterns and learn best practices in developing applications with Django, this is the book for you. This book, like Django itself, is accessible to amateur and professional developers alike and assumes little in the way of prior experience. Although written for Python 3, the majority of the code in this book works in Python 2 or can be easily translated.
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Structural patterns

This section contains several design patterns that can help you design and structure your models.

Patterns – normalized models

Problem: By design, model instances have duplicated data that cause data inconsistencies.

Solution: Break down your models into smaller models through normalization. Connect these models with logical relationships between them.

Problem details

Imagine if someone designed our Post table (omitting certain columns) in the following way:

Superhero Name

Message

Posted on

Captain Temper

Has this posted yet?

2012/07/07 07:15

Professor English

It should be 'Is' not 'Has'.

2012/07/07 07:17

Captain Temper

Has this posted yet?

2012/07/07 07:18

Capt. Temper

Has this posted yet?

2012/07/07 07:19

I hope you noticed the inconsistent superhero naming in the last row (and captain's consistent lack of patience).

If we were to look at the first column, we are not sure which spelling is correct—Captain Temper or Capt...

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