Coding Patterns in Django
Latest Changes
New: Automatically Filling in a User in the Admin
Sometimes it is nice to automatically add the current user into a field, like to easily keep track of the last user who modified a record or automatically set the “author” of a record. In earlier versions of Django this was pretty simple, but with validation added to Django, it requires a bit more work.
New: Introduction to Decorator Applications
A decorator app is an application that adds functionality to another application without the application's awareness. It is different than a Python decorator, rather it follows the idea from Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
New: Views as a package
This pattern allows for refactoring the view code into several files without effecting the import process in other files. In other words from coolapp.views import foo still works.
Updated: Django Version Reporting
Updated the example script to use Stefan Foulis' PEP 386-compliant example from https://gist.github.com/1149730
New: Configurable Applications
You want to allow configuration of your app without having to modify its code. You may also want to provide reasonable defaults that users can override.
