Comments on: On Django

By: very oddd

very oddd — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:51:17 +0000

Very nice and good work on building your own!

By: cristinamarie

cristinamarie — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:40:50 +0000

It all sounds complicated and I understand none of it, but it looks fab.

By: C

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:33:10 +0000

I suppose this is more attributable to your design, but I love the cleanness (is that even a word?) of the whole thing. It seems to move quickly and it just looks nice.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:01:34 +0000

As a long time MT user, and one who is still languishing at version 2.66, I would be very interested in a more detailed review of what your Django blog management system looks like.

By: Simon Willison

Simon Willison — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:39:43 +0000

Rich: That’s not pure Ruby code, it’s embedded Ruby - Ruby embedded in HTML. That said, the Django equivalent (which uses its own template language with syntax inspired by Python) would look like this:

{% for s in students %}{{ s.name }}{% endfor %}

In pure Python, for loops tend to look like this:

for s in student:
    print s

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:15:04 +0000

Just how elegant or straight-forward is Python compared to Ruby? Digital Web’s article on Ruby on Rails has this snippet of code:

<% @students.each do |s| %>
<%= s.name %>
<% end %>

I don’t really know Ruby, but that looks easy enough that I know it’s a loop and I could spend a few minutes to know what it’s doing. Is the equivalent in Python any easier?

And what about hosting? A lot of the tutorials (and for Ruby on Rails) seem to be an installation on a local (or purely clean, remote) system. If it’s already installed, how do you go about calling the installation? Or make templates?

P.S. I miss the live comment preview.

By: suki

suki — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:29:42 +0000

thanks! for some weird reason, the RSS wasn’t updating to show this post. yay for non-programming attempts at django!