Django Heresies

May 4, 200931 likes34,009 views

This document contains Simon Willison's heresies about Django. Some of the heresies discussed include that the {% if %} tags in Django templates suck, that silencing template errors is a bad idea, and that settings.py causes problems. Alternatives proposed include using a smarter {% if %} tag snippet, not silencing errors, and allowing per-application settings instead of one global settings file. The document also advocates for improving testing and documentation in the Django community.

The document summarizes Simon Willison's presentation on advanced Django topics including unit testing, newforms, Ajax, and OpenID. Key points include: - Unit testing in Django is encouraged through features like fixtures, doctests, test client, and email capture. Tests should be written before code using test-driven development. - Newforms provide a declarative way to create forms with fields, validation, rendering, and conversion to Python types. Forms make it easy to display, validate, and process user submissions. - The test client allows simulating a browser to test views and templates. Ajax functionality can return HTML, XML, or JSON and be integrated with JavaScript libraries like jQuery. - Form validation

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