Django Internals

[Venkatraman S]

Except for the code, is there any good place to start with to better understand the django structure.
As in, i am trying to figure out a way by which django can be much leaner, so that the actual footprint
is much smaller. Say, if i just want to have a simple website with a handful of models, with no complex
queries, then having something like a 'django-lite' would be awsome.

I started cleaning(/removing) up the code sometime back, but soon digressed.

-V

[Daniel Roseman]

For understanding the code, the absolute best place to start is Marty Alchin's great book Pro Django.

But if you want a "Django-lite", you'll be better off dropping Django and looking at one of the micro-frameworks like Flask. They usually don't come with ORMs, but you can always use  something like SQLObject, which again is much more minimal than Django's or SQLAlchemy.

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DR.

[Gath]

There was a long talk by James Bannett called "Django In Depth" during
pycon 2010, it would be good to check it out

http://djangocon.blip.tv/file/3322277/

Gath