Re: Questions about templates from a novice - Question #1

2016-12-02 Thread jim_anderson
Hi Dan, Thank you, much, for the pointer. I was totally unaware of the ccbv website. I looked over the 1.9 area this morning and after about 30 minutes I think I have a good feel for how the methods are being called. I believe I can use the classes and methods without going 'under the hood'.

Re: Questions about templates from a novice - Question #1

2016-12-01 Thread Dan Tagg
Hi Jim, I would really recommend looking at https://ccbv.co.uk/projects/Django/1.9/ There are diagrams to show the hierarchy of inheritance and mixins, plus all the properties and methods are there to see and explore. The place to start is the dispatch method, as_view is called first but you can

Questions about templates from a novice - Question #1

2016-12-01 Thread jim_anderson
Hi, A few intro words first. I am an experienced programmer and worked on a few python projects for maybe 3 years around 2000. Most of my other programming has been in c, c++, and java - maybe too many years. My current project is a web based project using Python 3.5.2 and Django 1.9.7. I have