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Django documentation

Everything you need to know about Django (and then some).

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First steps

• From scratch: Overview | Installation
• Tutorial: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

The model layer

• Models: Model syntax | Field types | Meta options
• QuerySets: Executing queries | QuerySet method reference
• Model instances: Instance methods | Accessing related objects
• Advanced: Managers | Raw SQL | Transactions | Aggregation | Custom fields | Multiple databases
• Other: Supported databases | Legacy databases | Providing initial data | Optimize database access

The template layer

• For designers: Syntax overview | Built-in tags and filters
• For programmers: Template API | Custom tags and filters

The view layer

• The basics: URLconfs | View functions | Shortcuts | Decorators
• Reference: Request/response objects | TemplateResponse objects
• File uploads: Overview | File objects | Storage API | Managing files | Custom storage
• Generic views: Overview | Built-in generic views
• Advanced: Generating CSV | Generating PDF
• Middleware: Overview | Built-in middleware classes

Forms

• The basics: Overview | Form API | Built-in fields | Built-in widgets
• Advanced: Forms for models | Integrating media | Formsets | Customizing validation
• Extras: Form preview | Form wizard

The development process

• Settings: Overview | Full list of settings
• Exceptions: Overview
• django-admin.py and manage.py: Overview | Adding custom commands
• Testing: Overview
• Deployment: Overview | Apache/mod_wsgi | Apache/mod_python | FastCGI/SCGI/AJP | Apache authentication | Handling static files | Tracking code errors by e-mail

Other batteries included

• Admin site | Admin actions | Admin documentation generator
• Authentication
• Cache system
• Conditional content processing
• Comments | Moderation | Custom comments
• Content types
• Cross Site Request Forgery protection
• Databrowse
• E-mail (sending)
• Flatpages
• GeoDjango
• Humanize
• Internationalization
• Jython support
• “Local flavor”
• Logging
• Messages
• Pagination
• Redirects
• Serialization
• Sessions
• Signals
• Sitemaps
• Sites
• Static Files
• Syndication feeds (RSS/Atom)
• Unicode in Django
• Web design helpers
• Validators
• Function-based generic views (Deprecated) Overview | Built-in generic views | Migration guide

The Django open-source project

• Community: How to get involved | The release process | Team of committers | The Django source code repository
• Design philosophies: Overview
• Documentation: About this documentation
• Third-party distributions: Overview
• Django over time: API stability | Release notes and upgrading instructions | Deprecation Timeline

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