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Monthly Archives July 2005

Django middleware

In the django project settings there is a key called MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES which is a tuple of strings implementing the middleware methods. Django base handler (TBD explain what this class does) reads this setting and initializes three of its own attributes: _request_middleware, _view_middleware and _response_middleware. It goes through the list of middleware classes instantiates each of [...]

Posted 28 July 2005 † amit § Programming § Python § Scripting § django § webdev ‡ Comments (0) °

django decorators

Django framework has used some design patterns. There is a directory called decorator which currently has two decorators: (decorator is just a method which dynamically adds additional functionality to original method depending on the situation)

funcA = login_required(funcA)
This replaces the funcA with a function which checks if the user is logged in and calls original function [...]

Posted 28 July 2005 † amit § Programming § Python § django § webdev ‡ Comments (0) °

Getting to know the django web framework

I was just about to abandon python and join the ruby camp to be able to use the wonderful rails framework for web application development. (They do have very good documentation and impressive video demo which you should check out!) But then came the announcement of Django. I really like the python [...]

Posted 28 July 2005 † amit § Programming § Python § Scripting § django § webdev ‡ Comments (0) °