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A framework for WebProgramming.

Masthead

URL

http://django.sourceforge.net/

version
Expected to launch in the week of July 11, 2005
licence
Django is open source software available under a BSD-style license.
platforms
Unix and probably Windows too
Python versions

Deployment Platforms

ModPython is supported and WSGI is being considered

Suitability

Django currently powers lawrence.com, ljworld.com and chicagocrime.org, along with a bunch of smaller sites such as visitlawrence.com and kkcscountry.com.

Development Interfaces

Environment Access

Session, Identification and Authentication

Persistence Support

Presentation Support

InTheirOwnWords

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, MVC design. Includes a template system, object-relational mapper and a framework for dynamically creating admin interfaces.

Django has been actively developed over the past year and a half. Ruby on Rails is similar to it, but Django is written in Python and has a few more advanced conveniences for super-quick Web development.

Comments

This framework is a potential competitor for Rails. It can claim one high profile site so far, chicagocrime.org though the same was true of Rails when the hype started. If Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison blog about it and evangelize it in the same way that DHH did for Rails and the meme manages to propagate across the blogosphere, Django may achieve a similar profile. A big win for Rails was the accompanying documentation, the very active wiki and the screencasts. This made it much more approachable for interested web developers to get started.

Hosting

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