Django is great On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 12:55:07 AM UTC-7, CM wrote: > On Monday, January 6, 2014 8:57:22 PM UTC-5, Roy Smith wrote: > > > > > Yes, exactly. There's nothing magic about a django view. It's just a > > > function which is passed an instance of HttpRequest (and possibly a few > > > other things, depending on your url mapping), and which is expected to > > > return an instance of HttpResponse. Within that framework, it can call > > > any other functions it wants. > > > > > > For example, http://legalipsum.com/ is a silly little site I built in > > > django. Here's the view for the home page: > > > > Nice! > > > > > Notice how the view knows nothing about generating the actual markov > > > text. That's in another module, which lives somewhere on my PYTHONPATH. > > > ALso, the view knows nothing about how the page is laid out; only the > > > templates know that. If I decided to redo this in tornado or flask, > > > whatever, I would need to rewrite my view, but there's not much to > > > rewrite. Most of the logic is in the Markov chainer, and that would > > > cary over to the new implementation unchanged. > > > > > > BTW, my suggestion to keep business logic and presentation code distinct > > > isn't unique to django, it's a good idea in pretty much all systems. > > > > Thanks for these points, helpful to see in practice. I'm trying to be > > more mindful of good coding practices, and this will be helpful as I continue > > to learn Django and making web applications generally.
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