Admin

The admin panel is a user interface for managing the application, accessible through the browser. In the admin.py file, we can add the model just created with the following command:

from models import Person
admin.site.register(Person)

All the models can be accessed by a user interface at:

http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/

At this link, the user name and password are required. We create that with the following command:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Then we type a username and password (in my case, andrea/a).

Now, we can explore the panel that follows:

Clicking on Persons, we will see all Person objects shown by name (because the__unicode__ function in the model refers to the name field):

Shell interface

The Django framework also provides a shell to explore the created models and test them. To start it, we type the following in the terminal:

python manage.py shell

Now we can import the Person model and play with it:

In [1]: from addressesapp.models import Person
In [2]: newcontact = Person...