Django's MVC architecture

[doug.b...@gmail.com]

I just posted about this over at the blog and just wondered if anyone
had noticed this?

Django seems to switch things around a bit so MVC has become MTV.
If you compare it to RoR which calls its templates views (correct) and
calls its control code "controller" and so on. Django seems to call
its equivalent 'control' code a 'view' and its located in the
"views.py" file. What you'd expect to be a view (the template) is
called a template.

So Django's naming convention appears to be: Model-Template-View.

A little confusing when coming from RoR.

My original post is here:
http://straw-dogs.co.uk/tao-blog/2005/12/05/djangos-mvc-architecture/

[Jacob Kaplan-Moss]

Hi Doug --

This is addressed in the FAQ: http://www.djangoproject.com/
documentation/faq/

Jacob

[doug.b...@gmail.com]

Haha. I hadn't noticed that. Very good but it still functions and
appears like a mis-labelled MVC model. However, I'm still very much
smitten with it. I certainly wouldn't rid myself of my other half
simply because she had an unusual name.