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Python

Mark Jones
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Mark Jones
Courses Plus Student 760 Points
Posted by Mark Jones
Mark Jones
Courses Plus Student 760 Points

View details in Model?

I am new to django but is it the best practice to add view logic to the model?

Cheers M

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

Hi Mark, The view logic is kept separate from the model. In typical project organization, the models are placed in the file models.py and the views go in the file views.py.

When a starting a new app within a django project, the startapp command creates these files for you:

$ django-admin startproject myproject
$ cd myproject
$ ls
manage.py  myproject
$ python manage.py startapp myapp
$ ls
app  manage.py  myproject
$ cd app
$ ls
admin.py  __init__.py  migrations  models.py  tests.py  views.py