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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

You're reading from   Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer Discover best practices, tooling, and solutions for writing and organizing Django applications in production

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073639
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mike Dinder Mike Dinder
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Starting a Project
2. Chapter 1: Undertaking a Colossal Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Project Configuration 4. Chapter 3: Models, Relations, and Inheritance 5. Part 2 – Django Components
6. Chapter 4: URLs, Views, and Templates 7. Chapter 5: Django Forms 8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Django Admin Site 9. Chapter 7: Working with Messages, Email Notifications, and PDF Reports 10. Part 3 – Advanced Django Components
11. Chapter 8: Working with the Django REST Framework 12. Chapter 9: Django Testing 13. Chapter 10: Database Management 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linking a model to a form

Linking a model to a form without needing any special field rendering is fairly easy.

In your /chapter_5/forms.py file, add the following code to the existing VehicleForm class (remember to remove the pass statement that was added to this class earlier):

# /becoming_a_django_entdev/chapter_5/forms.py
...
from django.forms 
import Form, ModelForm
from ..chapter_3.models 
import Vehicle
class VehicleForm(ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Vehicle
        fields = [
            'vin', 
            'sold', 
            'price', 
            &apos...
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