Here is a quick summary of the Django features covered in this chapter:

Django can be downloaded from the official Django website at http://www.djangoproject.com/. Given that it is written in Python, the same package works on all major operating systems.

To start a new Django project, issue the following command:

$ django-admin.py startproject <project-name>

To create database tables, issue the following command:

$ python manage.py syncdb

To start the development server, issue the following command:

$ python manage.py runserver

Django project settings are stored in settings.py. This file is a regular Python source file that can be edited using any source code editor. To change a variable, simply assign...