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This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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Django News - 200 OK - Django Security Releases: 4.2.6, 4.1.12, and 3.2.22 - Oct 6th 2023
News Django security releases issued: 4.2.6, 4.1.12, and 3.2.22 Posted by Natalia Bidart on October 4, 2023 djangoproject.com Python Release Python 3.12.0 Python 3.12.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. python.org Python Insider: Python 3.11.6 is now available Python 3.11.6 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations. blogspot.com Updates to Django Last week we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 6 different contributors - including 1 first time contributor! Congratulations to Dan Jacob for having their first commit merged into Django - welcome on board! Any bugs found in the new features of 5.0 are considered "Release blockers". We had 3 release blockers resolved last week (#34849, #34877, #34878) which were discovered by Mariusz Felisiak, Paolo Melchiorre and Dan Jacob. I want to thank each of you for testing 5.0 and uncovering these issues! Testing 5.0 is a great way to contribute to this release and might even lead to your first commit to Django! There are even a couple of 5.0 Testathons planned as community events - sign up here if you're free: https://forms.gle/eqXBtCTa8V5KrL9h9 … -
How to Stop macOS from Stealing Focus after Switching Apps Across Desktops
For years, I’ve had a macOS bug that occurred randomly and that I could only fix by rebooting or logging out. The Internet is full of similar problems, but I never found a solution to mine, and my pleas for help on Twitter went unanswered. Now, I have found a workaround myself. -
Django Fixtures Tutorial: How to use dumpdata and loaddata
A [fixture](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/db/fixtures/) is a collection of data that can be dumped or loaded into a Django database. It is serialized into a text-based format such as JSON or XML and … -
DNS Strikes Back - Building SaaS #172
In this episode, we returned to our DNS configuration from the previous stream and worked on testing email from end to end on the production site. On the stream, we spent a lot of time looking through SendGrid documentation, digging into layers of DNS, and troubleshooting the challenges that can arise when getting a site online. -
DNS Strikes Back - Building SaaS with Python and Django #172
In this episode, we returned to our DNS configuration from the previous stream and worked on testing email from end to end on the production site. On the stream, we spent a lot of time looking through SendGrid documentation, digging into layers of DNS, and troubleshooting the challenges that can arise when getting a site online. -
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Django Fixtures Tutorial: How to use dumpdata and loaddata
A [fixture](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/db/fixtures/) is a collection of data that can be dumped or loaded into a Django database. It is serialized into a text-based format such as JSON or XML and … -
Weeknotes (2023 week 40)
Weeknotes (2023 week 40)More work on hosting several websites from a single Django application server using feincms3-sites I have mentioned feincms3-sites last week in my last weeknotes entry; I have again given this package a lot of attention in the last days, so another update is in order. It is now possible to override the list of languages available on each site. That’s especially useful for an upcoming campaign site where the umbrella group’s site is available in three languages, but (most?) individual group sites (hosted on subdomains) will only have a subset of languages. Since I live in a country with four national languages (english isn’t one of them, but is spoken by many!) supporting more than one language, or even many languages is totally commonplace. It’s great that Django has good support for internationalization. For the sake of an example, I have the following sites: example.com: The default. The host has to match exactly. subdomain.example.com: One individual group’s site. The host has to match the regex ^subdomain\. (sorry, I actually do like regexes). Overriding configured hosts for local development One thing which always annoyed me when using django.contrib.sites was that “just” pulling the database from production to the … -
Django Best Practices: Docker
[Docker](https://www.docker.com/) is a very popular tool for managing Django projects. Many professional developers use it but I find it is still confusing to many newcomers. In this post I'll attempt … -
Django Best Practices: Imports
Imports are an inevitable part of Python and Django development. [Pep8](https://pep8.org/#imports), which is the official style guide for Python, recommends imports be placed at the top of the file, on … -
Django Best Practices: Models
Properly defining database models is arguably __the__ most important part of a new project, however Django provides us with tremendous flexibility around *how* we structure our models. There _is_ an … -
Django Best Practices: Security
Django is a mature, battle-tested web framework with a well deserved reputation for security over the past 15+ years.However the internet remains a dangerous place and web security is an … -
Django Best Practices: User permissions
Setting user permissions is a common part of most Django projects and can become quite complex quickly. We'll use the Blog example from my [Django for Beginners](http://djangoforbeginners.com) book as an … -
Database Design Tutorial for Beginners
Databases are at the heart of every web application. Their design, or schema, is literally the blueprint for how all information is stored, updated, and accessed. However learning about databases … -
Django Search Tutorial
__Note__: I gave a version of this tutorial at DjangoCon US 2019. You can see the video here: -
Django Rest Framework Tutorial: Todo API
[Django Rest Framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) is a powerful library that sits on top of existing Django projects to add robust web APIs. If you have an existing Django project with only models … -
Is Django a Full Stack Framework?
The title of this post, "Is Django a Full Stack Framework?" is a question I receive often from new web developers. It's a very valid question so I wanted to … -
Django Markdown Tutorial
[Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) is a popular text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. It is far easier to use than plain old HTML. Many/most static site generators provide a built-in way to write … -
Trailing URL Slashes in Django
Among Django's many built-in features is [APPEND_SLASH](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#append-slash), which by default is set to `True` and automatically appends a slash `/` to URLs that would otherwise [404](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_404). **Note**: The Chrome web … -
What is Django (Python)?
[Django](https://djangoproject.com) is an open-source web framework written in the [Python](https://www.python.org) programming language. Named after the jazz guitarist [Django Reinhardt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Reinhardt), it is used by some of the largest websites in the … -
How to Get Hired as a Django Developer
Hiring developers is a famously non-linear problem. Once you have a job at a notable company, it seems recruiters constantly beat down your door. But how do you get started? … -
NameError: name 'os' is not defined
If you've started a new Django 3.1+ project and are using older tutorials or guides, it's likely to come across the following error on your command line: ``` NameError: name … -
Django Polls Tutorial API
The [polls tutorial](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/) is the official guide to Django. As a fun exercise, I wanted to show how little code it takes to transform it into a robust API using … -
Django Testing Tutorial
Testing is an important but often neglected part of any Django project. In this tutorial we'll review testing best practices and example code that can be applied to any Django … -
What's New in Django 3.1
Django 3.1 will be released in early August 2020 and comes a number of major new features and many minor improvements including asynchronous views and middleware support, asynchronous tests, JSONField …
