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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

The high-level framework

Overview

The high-level feed-generating framework is supplied by the Feed class. To create a feed, write a Feed class and point to an instance of it in your URLconf.

Feed classes

A Feed class is a Python class that represents a syndication feed. A feed can be simple (for example, a site news feed, or a basic feed displaying the latest entries of a blog) or more complex (for example, a feed displaying all the blog entries in a particular category, where the category is variable). Feed classes subclass django.contrib.syndication.views.Feed. They can live anywhere in your codebase. Instances of Feed classes are views which can be used in your URLconf.

A simple example

This simple example, taken from a hypothetical police beat news site describes a feed of the latest five news items:

from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed 
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse 
from policebeat.models import NewsItem 
 
class LatestEntriesFeed(Feed): 
    title = "Police...
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