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Django aims to follow Python’s “batteries included” philosophy. It ships with a variety of extra, optional tools\nthat solve common Web-development problems.

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This code lives in django/contrib in the Django distribution. This document\ngives a rundown of the packages in contrib, along with any dependencies\nthose packages have.

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adminLink to this heading#

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The automatic Django administrative interface. For more information, see\nTutorial 2 and the\nadmin documentation.

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Requires the auth and contenttypes contrib packages to be installed.

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Django’s authentication framework.

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See User authentication in Django.

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A light framework for hooking into “types” of content, where each installed\nDjango model is a separate content type.

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See the contenttypes documentation.

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A framework for managing simple “flat” HTML content in a database.

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See the flatpages documentation.

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Requires the sites contrib package to be installed as well.

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A world-class geospatial framework built on top of Django, that enables\nstorage, manipulation and display of spatial data.

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See the GeoDjango documentation for more.

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humanizeLink to this heading#

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A set of Django template filters useful for adding a “human touch” to data.

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See the humanize documentation.

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messagesLink to this heading#

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A framework for storing and retrieving temporary cookie- or session-based\nmessages

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See the messages documentation.

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postgresLink to this heading#

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A collection of PostgreSQL specific features.

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See the contrib.postgres documentation.

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redirectsLink to this heading#

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A framework for managing redirects.

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See the redirects documentation.

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sessionsLink to this heading#

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A framework for storing data in anonymous sessions.

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See the sessions documentation.

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sitesLink to this heading#

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A light framework that lets you operate multiple websites off of the same\ndatabase and Django installation. It gives you hooks for associating objects to\none or more sites.

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See the sites documentation.

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A framework for generating Google sitemap XML files.

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See the sitemaps documentation.

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A framework for generating syndication feeds, in RSS and Atom, quite easily.

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See the syndication documentation.

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If you have an idea for functionality to include in contrib, let us know!\nCode it up, and post it to the django-users mailing list.

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