Everything You Need to Know About Django Models in Python

A comprehensive guide to Django Models

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Django is a high-level web framework written in python. It is used to build complex database-driven applications. Django uses the MVT framework. The MVT framework consists of the following components:

• Model
• View
• Template

In this tutorial, we will cover everything needed to know about models in Django, and by the end of the tutorial, you will be in a position to

• Create a Django project
• Represent objects in Django using models.

Setup a Django Project

We will start by creating a new Django project. Our project will be a Movie database system.

Create a directory and cd into it.

$ mkdir movie_db
$ cd movie_db

Create Virtual environment:

$ python3.8 -m venv env

Activate virtual environment:

$ source env/bin/activate

Install Django in the virtual environment:

(env)$ pip install Django

Create a new Django project with the name django_movie

(env)$ django-admin startproject django_movie .

Create a Django app:

(myenv)$ django-admin startapp movie_library

The above command will create the following files.

movie_library

Add the app to the list of INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py.

Models

Models represent objects in a django application. For our application, we need to ask ourselves;