Do you want to get hired as a Django developer? It doesn’t matter if you are looking for your first Django job fresh out of school, if you want to switch companies to advance your career, or if you are a freelancer looking for your next gig: you will probably have to answer some technical […]
TL;DR: if your AUTH_USER_MODEL setting is correct, the most likely cause for this exception is that an exception is raised during import of the model.py containing your custom user class. I just encountered an exception that had me scratching my head for a minute or two. Here is the relevant part for the stack trace: […]
Last week I attended DjangoCon Europe 2019 in the beautiful city of Copenhagen. The organizers did a great job putting together a fantastic event with three days of insightful talks covering a wide variety of topics followed by two days of sprints. I had a great time catching up with old friends and meeting new […]
There is a myth out there on the Internet, a myth that needs to be busted. It’s the idea that Django is too complicated. And because it is too complicated, it is too difficult to learn for beginners and also unsuited for small applications or microservices. Where does this idea come from? I’m not 100% […]
In my last article, I explained the new approach in Django 2.0 to define URL patterns and specifically how to capture URL parameter. In this article, we will have a closer look at Django path converters, the bit you can optionally put before the colon in a URL parameter definition. Here are some examples: Path […]
Django 2.0 introduced a new way to define URLs, which greatly simplifies how parameters are captured. In earlier versions of Django, you had to use the url() method and pass a regular expressions with named capturing groups to capture URL parameters. url(r’^posts/(?P<post_id>[0-9]+)/$’, post_detail_view) In Django 2.0, you use the path() method with path converters to […]
Want to attend DjangoCon Europe 2018? I mean who wouldn’t! Three days of great talks on your favorite web framework and two days of sprints and tutorials. All of that in the beautiful city of Heidelberg, Germany. If you don’t have a ticket yet, I have some bad news and some good news: The bad […]
Django comes with a powerful template language. The Django tutorial only scratches the surface of Django’s templating capabilities and doesn’t get to one of the most powerful features: template inheritance. In this article, I will show you how to use the template tags {% block %} and {% extends %} to avoid repeating the same […]
One of the most common requirements for a web application is to have user accounts: Users should have accounts and they should be able to log in and log out. This is called user authentication and is supported by Django out of the box. In this article, we will add user authentication to the polls […]
Did you encounter the error message: ImportError: cannot import name ‘include’ or ImportError: cannot import name ‘path’ when following the official Django tutorial or some other tutorial written for Django 2.0? The most likely reason for that is that you are using an older version of Django. You are seeing this error because the tutorial […]