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Django 3 : Extending the templates
The legacy of templates allows you to define a super template and a subtemplate that inherits from the super template. In the super template, it is possible to define blocks that subtemplates can fill. We will use an example where the page.html template will extend the base.html template. Step 1...
Django 3 : Passing Variables to the template
Django 3 : Passing Variables to the template Injecting the data from the view to the template Before improving our template, we must send variables to the templates. The injection of the data is based on these variables, as the template will perform certain actions Step 1 : We will...
Django 3 : Displaying Hello world! in a template
Templates are files that will allow us to generate the HTML code returned to the client. Step 1 : We will create the first template of our application. To do so, we must first edit the settings.py file to define the folder that will contain our templates. import os #...
Django 3 : Routing and Creating our first view
Routing in Django Step 1 : In the previous post, we edited the settings.py file to configure our Django project. ROOT_URLCONF = 'myproject.urls' This parameter will define the Python file that will contain all the URLs of our site. When the controller receives the client request, it will go in...
Django 3 : Configuring the application
To configure our project or our application, we need to edit the settings.py file in the project folder. This file contains variables. These variables are the settings that Django reads when initializing the web app. The following are a few of these variables: Step 1 : DEBUG: This parameter must...
Django 3 : Creating a Django Project
Starting your project with Django Before you start using Django, you need to create an environment for your applications. We will create a Django project. This project will then contain our applications. Step 1 : To create the project of our application, we need to run the following command using...
Django 3 : Installing Django 3
What is Django? Django was born in 2003 in a press agency of Lawrence, Kansas. It is a web framework that uses Python to create websites. Its goal is to write very fast dynamic websites. In 2005, the agency decided to publish the Django source code in the BSD license....
Python Variables
Variables in Python can reference values of different data types such as strings, integers, floating point values, Booleans, and different data types and data structures. Python, in contrast to statically typed languages such as Java or C++, doesn't require you to pre-declare a variable's data type. It determines the type...
Python : Writing and Running Simple Scripts
Python allows you to run your instructions from a saved file. A file containing Python instructions is called a module. A script is a module that can be run. By convention, Python scripts should have the file extension .py. The filename should be a valid filename, as defined by your...
Python : Working with the Python Interactive Shell
We are going to be writing our first program through the Python interactive shell. Before we begin, ensure that you have Python installed on your machine. Checking our Python Installation Step 1 : Open the terminal Step 2 : Type in the command python3 and press Enter. This should open...
