Our development environment consists of Python, Django, and a database system. There are many different database systems available. In this book, we will be using a system known as SQLite. In the following section, we will see how to install the necessary software packages.
Django is written in Python, so the first step in setting up our development environment is to install Python. Python is available for a variety of operating systems, and installing it is not very different from installing any other software package. The procedure depends on your operating system.
You will need a recent version of Python. Django requires Python 2.3 or higher. The latest version of Python, at the time of writing, is 2.5.
We will now look at the installation process for each operating system.
Python has a standard installer for Windows users. You will need to go to http://www.python.org/download/ and download the latest version of...