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Learn Web Development with Python

By : Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran
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Learn Web Development with Python

By: Fabrizio Romano, Gaston C. Hillar, Arun Ravindran

Overview of this book

If you want to develop complete Python web apps with Django, this Learning Path is for you. It will walk you through Python programming techniques and guide you in implementing them when creating 4 professional Django projects, teaching you how to solve common problems and develop RESTful web services with Django and Python. You will learn how to build a blog application, a social image bookmarking website, an online shop, and an e-learning platform. Learn Web Development with Python will get you started with Python programming techniques, show you how to enhance your applications with AJAX, create RESTful APIs, and set up a production environment for your Django projects. Last but not least, you’ll learn the best practices for creating real-world applications. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have a full understanding of how Django works and how to use it to build web applications from scratch. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Learn Python Programming by Fabrizio Romano • Django RESTful Web Services by Gastón C. Hillar • Django Design Patterns and Best Practices by Arun Ravindran
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Test your knowledge


  1. In Django REST framework, serializers are:
    1. Mediators between the view functions and Python primitives
    2. Mediators between the URLs and view functions
    3. Mediators between the model instances and Python primitives
  2. If we want to create a simple Toy model that we will use to represent and persist toys in Django REST framework, we can create:
    1.  A Toy class as a subclass of the djangorestframework.models.Model class
    2.  A Toy class as a subclass of the django.db.models.Model class
    3.  A Toy function in the restframeworkmodels.py file
  1. In Django REST framework, parsers and renderers:
    1. Handle as mediators between model instances and Python primitives
    2. Handle as mediators between Python primitives and HTTP requests and responses
    3. Handle as mediators between the view functions and Python primitives.
  2. Which of the following commands starts the Django shell?
    1. python manage.py shell
    2. python django.py shell
    3. django shell
  3. If we have a Django application named computers and a model called memory, what is the name...