Who uses it? MichaelMoore.com

What's it all about? Rapid Development Clean, Pragmatic Design

MVC -> MTV Except in their terminology, the "view" is the controller and the "template" is the view, kind of Model URLconf Template View

Model Layer Each model maps to a single database table Django comes with a built in ORM

Model Layer

Model Fields Django offers field options and field types Examples: Field.default returns default value of a field Field.primary_key returns true if the field is the primary key

SQL Django has an API for CRUD

Databases SQLite - Default with Python PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle Or you can write your own engine.

URLconf Maps regex to view

Web Server Gateway Interface (WSGI) Python standard for web servers to communicate with web applications

View Layer Python function that takes a Web request and returns a Web response.

Response Can Be HTML contents of a Web page Redirect 404 error XML document Image anything, really.

View Layer

Template Layer This is the "view" in most web frameworks Can contain block tags or variables A block tag is a symbol within a template that does something; surrounded by "{%" and "%}" A variable is a symbol within a template that outputs a value; surrounded by "{{" and "}}"

Template Layer Similar to PHP

Structure Root Apps URLconf LibrariesWSGI App Directories ModelsTestsViewsTemplates

IDEs PyDev Eclipse Plugin PyCharm Komodo IDE Netbeans IntelliJ IDEA Ninja IDE Eric Python IDE Wing IDE Basic Text Editors (Komodo, VIM)

Conclusion Django is great for fast development from scratch Not great for integrating with legacy databases, although it is possible

References Django's Website