Classes are great when you’re working with concepts in the real world. They are by no means a necessary construct in Python, they’re mostly used for code simplification, readaibility and reusability. We’ll walk through some […]
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Django create a file upload form with version control and save output to model
In my last articles, I spoke about creating a login for an app in Django and creating a file upload form in Django. In this article, I am going to share with you what project […]
Django: File uploads in forms
There are so many usecases where you’ll want to be able to upload a whole bunch of files to a website at once and yet, there isn’t really a well documented way to do it. […]
Building an app in Django: the login
I’ve spoken in depth about getting Django ready to use in this article, so I’m not going to go through the general setup commands in too much detail. Suffice to say, once you’ve got your […]
Pulling data from MySQL into Google Charts using Django
Pulling data from MySQL into Django is pretty straightforward. This article will show you some code samples of exactly that. In the below, you’ll see I have a load of DB queries. Each query is […]
An in depth look at Django
In Django, we have a few concepts. We have projects, apps, views, models, templates and a few more bits and bobs. In this article, I want to go through Django Project App Views.py Models.py Templates […]
Making a random password generator website with django
While learning Django, it’s important to have some real world problems to tackle. Strong passwords are of course really important and so generators have become popular. So, the first thing we do is edit our […]
A guide to using templates in django
In Django, we have a few concepts: URLs, Views and Templates (models too, but we’ll talk about them in a future article). You can think of the flow like this: User requests a particular web […]
Getting django setup and ready to use
I am not the biggest fan of sys admin kind of tasks – I really just want an environment that works so that I can get to work. So when it came to installing a […]
Making a simple command line to do list in Python
I’ve been asked recently what some super simple tasks would be to support learning Python so I’ve decided to post a few of them. Yesterday, you may have seen my article, looking at how we […]
Building a quiz with a time limit in python and golang
In this article, I am going to go through how we might create a terminal based quiz application where we ingest a CSV with quiz questions and answers, accept an answer from a user (and […]
The basics of threading in Python
If you’re a frequent reader of my website, you’ll know that I’ve been doing a lot with Golang recently.. like, a lot and it got me thinking about how easy concurrency is in Golang and […]
