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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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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

Understanding the database viewer

Let's take some time to understand how the database works. The objects are stored in the db.sqlite3 file. If you click on it, it is not very readable. But you can view such SQlite files with a SQLite viewer; just google SQLite Viewer for a list of them. One example is https://inloop.github.io/sqlite-viewer/.

Drag and drop your db.sqlite3 file into the previous link (over the SQLite viewer), and you can see the different tables in the database (as shown in Figure 7.1):

Figure 7.1 – Opening db.sqlite3 in SQLite Viewer

You can see the tables of the models we have created – that is, movie and news. There are other tables, such as django_session, because of the different apps that are installed for functions such as sessions and authentications.

Select a table – for example, news_news, and you can see its rows (Figure 7.2).

Note

The table name is derived from <appname>_<modelname&gt...

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