I think I was in a similar position not so long ago. It all makes more sense if you get familiar with all functionalities used by or similar to those used by Django. I have played with other template frameworks, sqlalchemy and mod_wsgi, I was aslo writing own classes for handling forms etc. separately for a while and then came back to Django. Without that experience it is difficult to tie what Django does in the background with python knowledge.
I hope it helps. On 8 July, 18:43, Bradley Hintze <bradle...@aggiemail.usu.edu> wrote: > Hi all > > I did the tutorial and I've spent the last two days in the > documentation trying, and failing, to figure out how to tie my model > to a view and ultimately a template that is served. The documentation > seems to do a lot of things (like write html) automatically which is > not what I want (seehttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/). I > am not > interested in admin sites, they make things easier but I am interested > in learning the code (i.e. the HTML and how it communicates with > python) rather than, in my view, just blackbox automation. > > I hope this makes sense. Please tell me if it doesn't. I want to > simply upload a file and then process the file using code I already > have. I would like to write the HTML code myself rather then having > django automatically do it. This is because I want to learn how to > process forms and not have a black box do everything for me. Are there > methods to simply get post data from a form that I write rather the > django automatically creating it (an example maybe)? are models > necessary for what I'm explaining? Is django right for what I'm > explaining? > > -- > Bradley J. Hintze > Graduate Student > Duke University > School of Medicine > 801-712-8799 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
