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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

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.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Testing tools

Django provides a set of tools that come in handy when writing tests.

The test client

The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy web browser, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Django-powered application programmatically. Some of the things you can do with the test client are:

  • Simulate GET and POST requests on a URL and observe the response-everything from low-level HTTP (result headers and status codes) to page content.
  • See the chain of redirects (if any) and check the URL and status code at each step.
  • Test that a given request is rendered by a given Django template, with a template context that contains certain values.

Note that the test client is not intended to be a replacement for Selenium (for more information visit http://seleniumhq.org/) or other in-browser frameworks. Django's test client has a different focus. In short:

  • Use Django's test client to establish that the correct template is being rendered and that the template is passed...
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