You're reading from Django 4 By Example - Fourth Edition Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

Product type Book

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813051

Pages 766 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Antonio Melé

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Building a Blog Application FREE CHAPTER

2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features

3. Extending Your Blog Application

4. Building a Social Website

5. Implementing Social Authentication

6. Sharing Content on Your Website

7. Tracking User Actions

8. Building an Online Shop

9. Managing Payments and Orders

10. Extending Your Shop

11. Adding Internationalization to Your Shop

12. Building an E-Learning Platform

13. Creating a Content Management System

14. Rendering and Caching Content

15. Building an API

16. Building a Chat Server

17. Going Live

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Installing Python

Django 4.1 supports Python 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10. In the examples in this book, we will use Python 3.10.6.

If you’re using Linux or macOS, you probably have Python installed. If you’re using Windows, you can download a Python installer from https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/.

Open the command-line shell prompt of your machine. If you are using macOS, open the /Applications/Utilities directory in the Finder, then double-click Terminal. If you are using Windows, open the Start menu and type cmd into the search box. Then click on the Command Prompt application to open it.

Verify that Python is installed on your machine by typing the following command in the shell prompt:

python

If you see something like the following, then Python is installed on your computer:

Python 3.10.6 (v3.10.6:9c7b4bd164, Aug  1 2022, 17:13:48) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

If your installed Python version is lower than 3.10, or if Python is not installed on your computer, download Python 3.10.6 from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and follow the instructions to install it. On the download site, you can find Python installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Throughout this book, when Python is referenced in the shell prompt, we will be using python, though some systems may require using python3. If you are using Linux or macOS and your system’s Python is Python 2 you will need to use python3 to use the Python 3 version you installed.

In Windows, python is the Python executable of your default Python installation, whereas py is the Python launcher. The Python launcher for Windows was introduced in Python 3.3. It detects what Python versions are installed on your machine and it automatically delegates to the latest version. If you use Windows, it’s recommended that you replace python with the py command. You can read more about the Windows Python launcher at https://docs.python.org/3/using/windows.html#launcher.