With all respect to the other answers, they don't answer what you are asking. The documentation has you interacting with the shell because django uses a database. In order to interact with the database you have to have an instance of your app running - in this case via the shell. In a future section of the tutorial you will interact with the database via the web view of your app. There are ways to populate the database by way of code (you can look up migrations if you would like) but the tutorial is really teaching the CRUD paradigm (Create, Read, Update, Delete) by which a user will interact with your app
On Monday, July 23, 2018 at 7:25:52 PM UTC-4, roflcopterpaul wrote: > > Hello, everyone! > > I am quite the scrub, having written a few super basic apps and currently > going through the Django tutorial. As I'm going through the tutorial > (creating a "polls" app), I've been perplexed by something the whole time > that I haven't been able to find an answer to - > > Why is much of the data the users see (i.e., the questions and answers to > the questions) written in the shell INSTEAD of simply being typed up in the > code/text editor? I'm new, so this is coming from a place of ignorance, by > why is that? It seems way more complicated and less efficient. > > Also, IS there a way to change up the code so everything can be directly > changed in the files themselves instead of in the shell? > > Thank you very much for any insight! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/f5f1f58a-ef73-46a4-9f9f-dfdabf8c26ed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
