Chapter 1. Getting Started with Django 1.8

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Working with a virtual environment
• Creating a project file structure
• Handling project dependencies with pip
• Making your code compatible with both Python 2.7 and Python 3
• Including external dependencies in your project
• Configuring settings for development, testing, staging, and production environments
• Defining relative paths in the settings
• Creating and including local settings
• Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically for Subversion users
• Setting up STATIC_URL dynamically for Git users
• Setting UTF-8 as the default encoding for MySQL configuration
• Setting the Subversion ignore property
• Creating a Git ignore file
• Deleting Python-compiled files
• Respecting the import order in Python files
• Creating app configuration
• Defining overwritable app settings