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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Aidas Bendoraitis, Jake Kronika
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Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By: Aidas Bendoraitis, Jake Kronika

Overview of this book

Django is a web framework for perfectionists with deadlines, designed to help you build manageable medium and large web projects in a short time span. This fourth edition of the Django Web Development Cookbook is updated with Django 3's latest features to guide you effectively through the development process. This Django book starts by helping you create a virtual environment and project structure for building Python web apps. You'll learn how to build models, views, forms, and templates for your web apps and then integrate JavaScript in your Django apps to add more features. As you advance, you'll create responsive multilingual websites, ready to be shared on social networks. The book will take you through uploading and processing images, rendering data in HTML5, PDF, and Excel, using and creating APIs, and navigating different data types in Django. You'll become well-versed in security best practices and caching techniques to enhance your website's security and speed. This edition not only helps you work with the PostgreSQL database but also the MySQL database. You'll also discover advanced recipes for using Django with Docker and Ansible in development, staging, and production environments. By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in using Django's powerful features and will be equipped to create robust websites.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Importing data from an external XML file

Just as we showed what could be done with JSON in the preceding recipe, the Last.fm file also allows you to take data from its services in XML format. In this recipe, we will show you how to do this.

Getting ready

Follow these steps to import data in the XML format from Last.fm:

  1. Let's start with the music app that we created in the Importing data from a local CSV file recipe.
  2. To use Last.fm, you need to register and get an API key. The API key can be
    created at https://www.last.fm/api/account/create.
  3. The API key has to be set in the settings as LAST_FM_API_KEY. We recommend
    providing it from the secrets file or an environment variable and drawing that into your settings...