What is Django?

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The Web Framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

History

The Lawrence Journal World The original Django site.

Ellington CMS The original Django system.

www.djangoproject.com Open sourced.

Philosophy

Pythonic

Beautiful is better than ugly.Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.Complex is better than complicated.

Flat is better than nested.Sparse is better than dense.

Readability counts.

DRY

Don’t Repeat Yourself

Other Good Stuff

• Loose coupling

• Less code

• Quick development

Consistency.

Foundations

The Python language. Batteries included.

Who uses Python?

Components

Object-Relational Mapper

Automatic Admin Interface

Template Language

Other Goodies

• Strong internationalization support.

• Caching support for high performance websites.

• Built-in support for RSS feeds.

• Elegant, cruft-free URLs

Django Community Many additional projects.

Django Community A rich user community.

Django Community Extensively deployed.

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Questions?