Django 1.0 Ships

by Mike Gunderloy - Sep. 05, 2008Comments (2)

As predicted on the project's road map months ago, Django 1.0 is out. Though this Python-backed web application framework has been around for quite a while, declaring it to be 1.0 is an important milestone - and a big accomplishment for a dedicated community of developers.

Django 1.0 includes quite a few features that are new since the 0.96 release that many sites have been using. These include improved Unicode handling, an improved and refactored ORM, cross-site scripting protection, Jython compatability, and more. The 1.0 release also comes with a promise of API stability and forward compatibility; as you move from 1.0 to 1.1, you won't face a moving target.

If you're interested in learning Django, the best starting point is the project's own documentation. There's also a handy cheat-sheet for more experienced developers.


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PHP has many problems, but it just works, and until recently the alternatives have been too complex or immature to use. Now that Django is at version 1.0 and everybody is on board with WSGI, there are few reasons to avoid Python for everyday web sites except the fear of learning new things.

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Is this related to the Google App Engine launch in anyways ? I heard that the Google App Engine is a customized Django Impl with a scalable datastore ?

For those of you , interested in getting a free Scalable Online Django setup , try Google App Engine. 500 MB disk space and 5 Million Page views is not a bad deal (for free :))

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