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Django 4 for the Impatient

You're reading from   Django 4 for the Impatient Learn the core concepts of Python web development with Django in one weekend

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245836
Length 190 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Greg Lim Greg Lim
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Installing Python and Django 2. Chapter 2: Understanding the Project Structure and Creating Our First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Managing Django URLs 4. Chapter 4: Generating HTML Pages with Templates 5. Chapter 5: Working with Models 6. Chapter 6: Displaying Objects from Admin 7. Chapter 7: Understanding the Database 8. Chapter 8: Extending Base Templates 9. Chapter 9: Creating a Movie Detail Page 10. Chapter 10: Implementing User Signup and Login 11. Chapter 11: Letting Users Create, Read, Update, and Delete Movie Reviews 12. Chapter 12: Deploying the Application to the Cloud 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding and defining Django URLs

Remember that /moviereviews/urls.py is referenced each time someone types in a URL on our website – for example, localhost:8000/hello.

For now, we get an error page when we go to the preceding URL. So, how do we display a proper page for it? Each time a user types in a URL, the request passes through urls.py and sees whether the URL matches any defined paths so that the Django server can return an appropriate response.

urls.py currently has the following code:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
urlpatterns = [
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]

When a request passes through urls.py, it will try to match a path object in urlpatterns – for example, if a user enters http://localhost:8000/admin into the browser, the URL will match the admin/ path. The server will then respond with the Django admin site (as shown in Figure 3.1), which we will explore later:

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