A helper script for runserver
This is a little shell script I save as rs, put on my path, and use as a shortcut to start the Django development server. It has several features that make me more productive...
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Class-based views in Django 1.3
Django 1.3 added class-based views, but neglected to provide documentation to explain what they were or how to use them. So here's a basic introduction.
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Django Without the Web
One of the things I like best about Django is how easy its ORM makes it to work with databases. Too bad Django is only for web applications. Sure, you could deploy a Django app and then make use of it from a non-web application using a REST API, but ...
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Bulk inserts in Django
I recently found a way to speed up a large data import far more than I expected.
The task was to read data from a text file and create data records in Django, and the naive implementation was managing to import about 55 records per second, which was going to ...
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Getting Started using Python in Eclipse
Eclipse with the PyDev module has a lot to offer the Python programmer these days. If you haven't looked at PyDev before, or not in a while, it's worth checking out.
Here are some of my favorite features:
- One-keystroke navigation to the definitions of variables, methods, classes
- Code ...