Just one point of clarity - the intention is clearly for apps to be
small and focused and "do one thing well". Like much of Python, of
course, you as a developer can abuse this to your heart's content and
create humugenous and unwieldy code bases. (Pinax, incidentally, is
not an "app", but a bund
Apps vs Projects
There is probably no one better to address this topic than James
Bennet - see:
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/feb/11/integrity/
(e.g. "when Django first appeared I was playing with Rails, and the
available options for this sort of reusable functionality in Rails
all, frankly, s
On Saturday, January 08, 2011 02:07:22 am Ondřej Mirtes wrote:
> Thank you all for your responses.
>
> I have one more question - what is the purpose of "apps" in
> "projects" (when I create new app in a project via manage.py
> startapp)? Are they something like sections of a web (articles, forum,
I've had this question too, when I'm designing a project. So far, I have
dumped all of my own code into the one app that I create for the project and
then add external apps that can be found on the internet to extend my
project's functionality. For example, I needed to download articles from
Thank you all for your responses.
I have one more question - what is the purpose of "apps" in
"projects" (when I create new app in a project via manage.py
startapp)? Are they something like sections of a web (articles, forum,
user administration?) or are they rather something like modules,
reusabl
Re: " I would like to read about some best practices about midsize and
large Django projects."
I would recommend first implementing a small-ish but meaningful (i.e.
something that addresses a Real World problem, and that you will
actually use) project; that way you will see the overall structure a
Re: "inversion of control" in Python - look at:
http://plope.com/control_inversion
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/413268-dependency-injection-the-python-way/
http://blog.code.zaubersoftware.com/2009/04/controlfreak-python-inversion-of.html
On Jan 5, 12:06 am, Ondřej Mirtes wrote:
> Hello,
On Jan 4, 9:38 pm, Shawn Milochik wrote:
> Hi Ondřej.
>
> ...
> #2: The validation should all be done during form validation[2], prior to
> save. Using a Form or ModelForm. That way, the user can get friendly, useful
> errors.
Further to this, look into model validation if the logic is integral
Hi Ondřej.
For your question #1, you could create a field in the model itself and then use
signals[1] to populate it upon the saving of a "vote" instance.
#2: The validation should all be done during form validation[2], prior to save.
Using a Form or ModelForm. That way, the user can get frien
Hello,
I am experienced PHP developer (and by PHP I mean advanced programming
with MVC frameworks, TDD, ORM libraries, design patterns and such, so
no scoffing please :)) and I would like to try something new. I've
chosen Python and Django and I am building my bachelor thesis project
with it.
I di
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