| .. _glossary: |
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| ======== |
| Glossary |
| ======== |
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| .. glossary:: |
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| field |
| An attribute on a :term:`model`; a given field usually maps directly to |
| a single database column. |
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| See :doc:`/topics/db/models`. |
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| generic view |
| A higher-order :term:`view` function that provides an abstract/generic |
| implementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development. |
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| See :doc:`/ref/generic-views`. |
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| model |
| Models store your application's data. |
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| See :doc:`/topics/db/models`. |
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| MTV |
| "Model-template-view"; a software pattern, similar in style to MVC, but |
| a better description of the way Django does things. |
| |
| See :ref:`the FAQ entry <faq-mtv>`. |
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| MVC |
| `Model-view-controller`__; a software pattern. Django :ref:`follows MVC |
| to some extent <faq-mtv>`. |
| |
| __ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller |
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| project |
| A Python package -- i.e. a directory of code -- that contains all the |
| settings for an instance of Django. This would include database |
| configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific |
| settings. |
| |
| property |
| Also known as "managed attributes", and a feature of Python since |
| version 2.2. From `the property documentation`__: |
| |
| Properties are a neat way to implement attributes whose usage |
| resembles attribute access, but whose implementation uses method |
| calls. [...] You |
| could only do this by overriding ``__getattr__`` and |
| ``__setattr__``; but overriding ``__setattr__`` slows down all |
| attribute assignments considerably, and overriding ``__getattr__`` |
| is always a bit tricky to get right. Properties let you do this |
| painlessly, without having to override ``__getattr__`` or |
| ``__setattr__``. |
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| __ http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/#property |
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| queryset |
| An object representing some set of rows to be fetched from the database. |
| |
| See :doc:`/topics/db/queries`. |
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| slug |
| A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers, |
| underscores or hyphens. They're generally used in URLs. For |
| example, in a typical blog entry URL: |
| |
| .. parsed-literal:: |
| |
| http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/apr/12/**spring**/ |
| |
| the last bit (``spring``) is the slug. |
| |
| template |
| A chunk of text that acts as formatting for representing data. A |
| template helps to abstract the presentation of data from the data |
| itself. |
| |
| See :doc:`/topics/templates`. |
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| view |
| A function responsible for rending a page. |
