Django Ressources

Here's an example of a settings file I've created for a recent project. I'll explain all of the bells and whistles below.

try: func = getattr(obj, "method") except AttributeError: ... deal with missing method ... else: result = func(args)

from django.core.management import setup_environ import settings setup_environ(settings)

The Django documentation on internationalization describes how to add multi-language support to your application. As it took me a few tries to get it right, here's a rundown of what I did to add it to an existing project.

Please feel free to share the things that tripped you up when you started with Django. We'll try to improve Django's error handling to catch such mistakes in the future.

Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database. What it doesn't abstracts, and doesn't try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them.

Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation, and it has excellent support for the documentation of Python projects, but other documents can be written with it too. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx!

I've finally gotten around to playing with the Django Signals.  I've been pleased so far but I feel its currently missing a few key features.

Debugging Django