Re: Some basic questions from somebody learning Django/Python

2013-05-07 Thread Shawn Milochik
Coincidentally, Russell just gave the answer to that question less than an hour ago, so I'll just refer you to his reply: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/AMYLfQo6Ba4/Y-57B0i7qy4J -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To u

Re: Some basic questions from somebody learning Django/Python

2013-05-06 Thread Shawn Milochik
Hi Christopher. In general, you don't install a Django app -- you just run it with ./manage.py runserver. If it's a "pluggable app" it should have an installer. If it needs to be installed and the author hasn't provided an easy way for you to do it, it's probably better to learn from code written

Some basic questions from somebody learning Django/Python

2013-05-06 Thread Christopher Winter
Hi all, I have some (possibly dumb) questions about Django. I've been through the great "Writing your first app" tutorial on the DjangoProject site, and now my plan is to explore in detail some existing apps from GitHub: get them installed, go through the code line by line, make some mods a