The best place to understand the difference is at the official documentation on values / values_list. It has many useful examples and explains it very clearly. The django docs are very user freindly. Here's a short snippet to keep SO reviewers happy: values Returns a QuerySet that returns dictionaries, rather than model instances, when used as an iterable. And read the section which follows it ...
Django is the web development framework in python whereas the Django Rest Framework is the library used in Django to build Rest APIs. Django Rest Framework is especially designed to make the CRUD operations easier to design in Django. Django Rest Framework makes it easy to use your Django Server as an REST API. REST stands for "representational state transfer" and API stands for application ...
My local machine is running Python 2.5 and Nginx on Ubuntu 8.10, with Django builded from latest development trunk. For every URL I request, it throws: TemplateDoesNotExist at /appname/path appn...
How can I query/filter in Django and ignore the cases of my query-string? I've got something like and like to ignore the case of my_parameter: MyClass.objects.filter(name=my_parameter)
70 As of Django 1.9, the simplest solution I have found (based on Quentin Stafford-Fraser's solution) is to add a few lines to manage.py which dynamically modify the default port number before invoking the runserver command:
I was trying to create migrations within an existing app using the makemigrations command but it outputs "No changes detected". Usually I create new apps using the startapp command but di...
I uninstalled django on my machine using pip uninstall Django. It says successfully uninstalled whereas when I see django version in python shell, it still gives the older version I installed. To ...
When the Django server receives the form request, Django will verify that the token matches the value that was rendered in the form. This is necessary to ensure that POST requests (i.e. data-altering requests) originate from an authentic client session.
To take complete control of which app a template is loaded from, there is django-apptemplates and django-app-namespace-template-loader, which are both still relevant if you want to extend from one app to another.
