Before you can use Django, you’ll need to get it installed. We have a complete installation guide that covers all the possibilities; this guide will guide you to a simple, minimal installation that’ll work while you walk through the introduction. Install Python Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python. See What Python version can I use with Django? for details. Python includes a lightweight database called SQLite so you won’t need to set up a database just yet. Get the latest versio

class middleware.RedirectFallbackMiddleware You can change the HttpResponse classes used by the middleware by creating a subclass of RedirectFallbackMiddleware and overriding response_gone_class and/or response_redirect_class. response_gone_class The HttpResponse class used when a Redirect is not found for the requested path or has a blank new_path value. Defaults to HttpResponseGone. response_redirect_class The HttpResponse class that handles the redirect. Defaults to HttpResponseP

response_gone_class The HttpResponse class used when a Redirect is not found for the requested path or has a blank new_path value. Defaults to HttpResponseGone.

response_redirect_class The HttpResponse class that handles the redirect. Defaults to HttpResponsePermanentRedirect.

class models.Redirect Redirects are represented by a standard Django model, which lives in django/contrib/redirects/models.py. You can access redirect objects via the Django database API.

Jython is an implementation of Python that runs on the Java platform (JVM). This document will get you up and running with Django on top of Jython. Installing Jython Django works with Jython versions 2.7b2 and higher. See the Jython website for download and installation instructions. Creating a servlet container If you just want to experiment with Django, skip ahead to the next section; Django includes a lightweight Web server you can use for testing, so you won’t need to set up anything else u

A common task for web applications is to search some data in the database with user input. In a simple case, this could be filtering a list of objects by a category. A more complex use case might require searching with weighting, categorization, highlighting, multiple languages, and so on. This document explains some of the possible use cases and the tools you can use. We’ll refer to the same models used in Making queries. Use Cases Standard textual queries Text-based fields have a selection of

This document is an overview of Django’s security features. It includes advice on securing a Django-powered site. Cross site scripting (XSS) protection XSS attacks allow a user to inject client side scripts into the browsers of other users. This is usually achieved by storing the malicious scripts in the database where it will be retrieved and displayed to other users, or by getting users to click a link which will cause the attacker’s JavaScript to be executed by the user’s browser. However, X

class backends.base.SessionBase This is the base class for all session objects. It has the following standard dictionary methods: __getitem__(key) Example: fav_color = request.session['fav_color'] __setitem__(key, value) Example: request.session['fav_color'] = 'blue' __delitem__(key) Example: del request.session['fav_color']. This raises KeyError if the given key isn’t already in the session. __contains__(key) Example: 'fav_color' in request.session get(key, default=

clear() It also has these methods: