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concrete modelLink to this term#

A non-abstract (abstract=False) model.

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An attribute on a model; a given field usually maps directly to a single database column.

See Models.

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A higher-order view function that provides an abstract/generic implementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development.

See Class-based views.

modelLink to this term#

Models store your application’s data.

See Models.

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“Model-template-view”; a software pattern, similar in style to MVC, but a better description of the way Django does things.

See the FAQ entry.

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Model-view-controller; a software pattern. Django follows MVC to some extent.

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A Python package – i.e. a directory of code – that contains all the settings for an instance of Django. This would include database configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific settings.

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Also known as “managed attributes”, and a feature of Python since version 2.2. This is a neat way to implement attributes whose usage resembles attribute access, but whose implementation uses method calls.

See property.

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An object representing some set of rows to be fetched from the database.

See Making queries.

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A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens. They’re generally used in URLs. For example, in a typical blog entry URL:

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/apr/12/spring/

the last bit (spring) is the slug.

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A chunk of text that acts as formatting for representing data. A template helps to abstract the presentation of data from the data itself.

See Templates.

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A function responsible for rendering a page.