Glossary. Django Software

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8

Glossary

concrete model A non-abstract ( abstract=False

) model.

field An attribute on a

model ; a given field usually maps directly to a single database column.

See

Models .

generic view A higher-order

view

function that provides an abstract/generic implementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development.

See

Class-based views

.

model Models store your application’s data.

See

Models .

MTV “Model-template-view”; a software pattern, similar in style to MVC, but a better description of the way Django does things.

See

the FAQ entry .

MVC Model-view-controller ; a software pattern. Django

follows MVC to some extent .

project A Python package – i.e. a directory of code – that contains all the settings for an instance of Django. This would include database configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific settings.

property Also known as “managed attributes”, and a feature of Python since version 2.2. This is a neat way to implement attributes whose usage resembles attribute access, but whose implementation uses method calls.

See property

.

queryset An object representing some set of rows to be fetched from the database.

See

Making queries .

slug A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. They’re generally used in URLs. For example, in a typical blog entry URL: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/apr/12/

spring

/ the last bit (spring) is the slug.

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template A chunk of text that acts as formatting for representing data. A template helps to abstract the presentation of data from the data itself.

See

Templates .

view A function responsible for rendering a page.

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