Glossary

    • concrete model
    • A non-abstract () model.
    • field
    • An attribute on a ; a given field usually maps directly toa single database column.
    • generic view
    • A higher-order view function that provides an abstract/genericimplementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development.

    See .

    • model
    • MTV
    • “Model-template-view”; a software pattern, similar in style to MVC, buta better description of the way Django does things.

    See the FAQ entry.

    • MVC
    • ; a software pattern. Django follows MVCto some extent.
    • project
    • A Python package – i.e. a directory of code – that contains all thesettings for an instance of Django. This would include databaseconfiguration, Django-specific options and application-specificsettings.
    • property
    • queryset
    • An object representing some set of rows to be fetched from the database.

    See .

    • slug
    • A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers,underscores or hyphens. They’re generally used in URLs. Forexample, in a typical blog entry URL:
    • template
    • A chunk of text that acts as formatting for representing data. Atemplate helps to abstract the presentation of data from the dataitself.

    See Templates.

    • view