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Asked: 2026-05-14T23:28:35+00:00

I know Python but I’ve never used Django. What do I need to know

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I know Python but I’ve never used Django.

What do I need to know about Django 1.2 to port my typical PHP CRUD web application in one weekend? (Yes I’ve read Joel Spolsky’s Netscape article :-))

I’m reading this tutorial right now and it’s excellent. I’m already playing around with inspectdb to generate my models from the existing schema.

I’m planning to use the following this weekend:

  • Fragment caching
  • Static asset versioning (for far future expires)
  • Schema migrations (or whatever they’re called in Django)
  • Auto-admin (and customize it later)
  • The test framework
  • Skins
  • …other stuff I probably don’t know about yet

I’m familiar with all these concepts in other languages/frameworks, except for the ORM which I’ve never used. I know SQL pretty well though.

Any links, sage bits of advice, gotchas, stuff not mentioned in the (excellent) tutorial/docs, or stuff that is mentioned but warrants repeating == very welcome. Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    The django docs is very good and you should find the answers to most of your questions http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/

    You can google it easily but make sure that you are on the doc pages of django 1.2.

    For schema migration, I recommed to look at south http://south.aeracode.org/

    In my opinion south is a must-have feature for a website. It is quite easy and fast to get started. The tutorial on their website should help you. I think that it will be a big help if you plan to make some schema migration in the week-end. If not you can wait a little.
    I’ve never used south on a db generated by inspectdb but I guess that it should work ok 🙂

    Have a nice week-end 🙂

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