Glossary

• concrete model
• A non-abstract () model.
• field
• An attribute on a model; a given field usually maps directly toa single database column.

• generic view
• A higher-order function that provides an abstract/genericimplementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development.

See Class-based views.

• model

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

See .

• MVC
• Model-view-controller; a software pattern. Django .
• 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 Making queries.

• 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 .

• view