{"id":9830,"date":"2014-10-10T05:03:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2014-10-10T05:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T18:03:55","slug":"django-python-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/django-python-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Django Python Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Django<\/a>

Django Python Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Django<\/a> is a high-level Web framework that utilizes the Python programming language. You may remember from some time back with Python Webserver Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, that we intimated we would try this out sometime. Django helps you achieve rapid, clean, pragmatic design and development of web apps, with all those advantages Python offers.<\/p>\n

As one of the Three P’s you’d expect Python to be capable of this, and, indeed, it can be a complete replacement for PHP as your server-side language. It is growing in popularity, and can see its appeal for the clear-thinkers amongst us. Its data structures are appealing to many programmers, and with more and more Python code written, the more powerful it will become in the Open Source world. So combine this with Django’s web app interfacing to databases (SQLite<\/a> (database) is installed when you install Django, and you can interface to others, such as PostgreSQL or MySql) and you have a great environment to make powerful and interesting web apps.<\/p>\n

Today<\/a> we install Django to a pre-existant Python installation that sits happily alongside a local MAMP Apache\/PHP web server without concern. If you do this yourself, too, please head for the latest version, because there have been recent security patch improvements to Django. We follow the Django website’s first tutorial<\/a> to do a small “poll” web app which we call “mysite”<\/a> as you would if “yer head’s a marley”<\/a> (as they used to say in Coleraine<\/a>). Along the way you’ll see a Django http:\/\/localhost:8080 local web server we’ll add to the web server list in Cassini++ WebServer Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lots of sidetracks here but hope you’ll bear with the mistakes, and if you are beginning, perhaps, sidestep those mistakes.<\/p>\n

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Previous relevant Python Webserver Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"Python<\/a>

Python Webserver Primer Tutorial (try twirling round bottom of image for a synopsis ... 'do the twirl now')<\/p><\/div>\n

Today’s tutorial shows yet another approach regarding the creation of a local Web Server. Today we create a very simple Python Web Server, and give thanks to Python and XML<\/i> by Christopher A. Jones and Fred E. Drake, for the excellent “basis” code on pp 198-200. This tutorial could use Go Webserver Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, for compare and contrast purposes, and you may want to refer to our growing list of Web Server ideas at Cassini++ WebServer Primer Tutorial<\/a> and perhaps Web Server Primer Tutorial<\/a> and maybe Apache WebServer on Mac and The Three P\u2019s Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As one of the Three P’s you’d expect Python to be capable of this, and, indeed, it can be a complete replacement for PHP as your server-side language. Believe it is growing in popularity, and can see its appeal for the clear-thinkers amongst us. Its data structures are appealing to many programmers, and with more and more Python code written, the more powerful it will become in the Open Source world.<\/p>\n

So this Python’s Web Server “ingredients” (ie. methods) for class ourRequestHandler are:<\/p>\n