Question

I just started out using python and went straight to django. I have set up a first project and played around a bit. So far so good. Now I’m trying to get a deeper understanding of what is going on.

I can’t find any info on what startproject actually does. I understand it creates the page-structure of a Django-project, but does it do anything else?

Answer 1

Example:

# running django-admin.py inside /opt
/opt$ django-admin.py startproject testproject

Created structure:

• /opt
  • testproject
    • manage.py (the script which you use instead of django-admin.py for this project)
    • testproject (the directory which keeps the codebase for your project)
    • __init__.py (this file let’s Python know that this folder is a package)
    • settings.py (django settings file created from a template)
    • urls.py (Django URLs file in which you put all your URL structure)
    • wsgi.py (the WSGI script which you can use to serve your application later on)

That’s pretty much it.