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Django 4 for the Impatient

You're reading from   Django 4 for the Impatient Learn the core concepts of Python web development with Django in one weekend

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245836
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Lim Greg Lim
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Installing Python and Django 2. Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Managing Django URLs 4. Chapter 4: Generating HTML Pages with Templates 5. Chapter 5: Working with Models 6. Chapter 6: Displaying Objects from Admin 7. Chapter 7: Understanding the Database 8. Chapter 8: Extending Base Templates 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Movie Detail Page 10. Chapter 10: Implementing User Signup and Login 11. Chapter 11: Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews 12. Chapter 12: Deploying the Application to the Cloud 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating our first model

Working with databases in Django involves working with models. A model contains the fields and behaviors of the data we want to store. Commonly, each model maps a database table. We can create models such as blog posts, movies, and users, and Django turns these models into a database table for us.

Here are the Django model basics:

  • Each model is a class that extends django.db.models.Model.
  • Each model attribute represents a database column.
  • With all of this, Django provides us with a set of useful methods to create, update, read, and delete (CRUD) model information from a database.

/movie/models.py

In /movie, we have the models.py file, where we create our models for the movie app. Open that file and fill it in with the following:

from django.db import models
class Movie(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=250)
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