Python | Django Interview Questions and

Answers
1. What is Django?
Ans: Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean,
pragmatic design. Built by experienced developers, it takes care of much of the hassle of Web
development, so you can focus on writing your app without needing to reinvent the wheel. It’s free
and open source..

2. What does Django mean?

Ans: Django is named after Django Reinhardt, a gypsy jazz guitarist from the 1930s to early 1950s
who is known as one of the best guitarists of all time.

3. Which architectural pattern does Django Follow?

Ans: Django follows Model-View Template (MVT) architectural pattern.

4. Explain the architecture of Django?

Ans: Django is based on MVT architecture. It contains the following layers:
Models: It describes the database schema and data structure.
Views: The view layer is a user interface. It controls what a user sees, the view retrieves data from
appropriate models and execute any calculation made to the data and pass it to the template.
Templates: It determines how the user sees it. It describes how the data received from the views
should be changed or formatted for display on the page.
Controller: Controller is the heart of the system. It handles requests and responses, setting up
database connections and loading add-ons. It specifies the Django framework and URL parsing.

5. Which foundation manages Django web framework?

Ans: Django web framework is managed and maintained by an independent and non-profit
organization named Django Software Foundation (DSF).

6. Is Django stable?
Ans: Yes, Django is quite stable. Many companies like Disqus, Instagram, Pinterest, and Mozilla
have been using Django for many years.

7. What are the features available in Django web framework?

Ans: Features available in Django web framework are:
Admin Interface (CRUD)
Templating
Form handling
Internationalization
Session, user management, role-based permissions
Object-relational mapping (ORM)
Testing Framework
Fantastic Documentation

8. What are the advantages of using Django for web development?

Ans: It facilitates you to divide code modules into logical groups to make it flexible to change.
It provides auto-generated web admin to make website administration easy.
It provides pre-packaged API for common user tasks.
It provides template system to define HTML template for your web page to avoid code duplication.
It enables you to define what URL is for a given function.
It enables you to separate business logic from the HTML.

 
9. How to create a project in Django?
Ans: To start a project in Django, use the command $django-admin.py and then use the following
command:
Project
_init_.py
manage.py
settings.py
urls.py

10. What are the inheritance styles in Django?

Ans: There are three possible inheritance styles in Django:
1. Abstract base classes: This style is used when you only want parent?s class to hold information
that you don’t want to type out for each child model.
2. Multi-table Inheritance: This style is used if you are sub-classing an existing model and need
each model to have its own database table.
3. Proxy models: This style is used, if you only want to modify the Python level behavior of the
model, without changing the model’s fields.

11. How can you set up the database in Djanago?

Ans: To set up a database in Django, you can use the command edit mysite/setting.py , it is a
normal python module with module level representing Django settings.
By default, Django uses SQLite database. It is easy for Django users because it doesn’t require any
other type of installation. In the case of other database you have to the following keys in the
DATABASE ‘default’ item to match your database connection settings.
Engines: you can change database by using ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3’ ,
‘django.db.backeneds.mysql’, ‘django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2’,
‘django.db.backends.oracle’ and so on
Name: The name of your database. In the case if you are using SQLite as your database, in that
case database will be a file on your computer, Name should be a full absolute path, including file
name of that file.
Note: You have to add setting likes setting like Password, Host, User, etc. in your database, if you
are not choosing SQLite as your database.

 
12. What does the Django templates contain?
Ans: A template is a simple text file. It can create any text-based format like XML, CSV, HTML, etc.
A template contains variables that get replaced with values when the template is evaluated and tags
(%tag%) that controls the logic of the template.

 
13. Is Django a content management system (CMS)?
Ans: No, Django is not a CMS. Instead, it is a Web framework and a programming tool that makes
you able to build websites.

14. What is the use of session framework in Django?

Ans: The session framework facilitates you to store and retrieve arbitrary data on a per-site visitor
basis. It stores data on the server side and abstracts the receiving and sending of cookies. Session
can be implemented through a piece of middleware.

15. How can you set up static files in Django?

Ans: There are three main things required to set up static files in Django:
1. Set STATIC_ROOT in settings.py
2. run manage.py collectsatic
3. set up a Static Files entry on the PythonAnywhere web tab

16. How to use file based sessions?

Ans: You have to set the SESSION_ENGINE settings to “django.contrib.sessions.backends.file” to
use file based session.

17. What is some typical usage of middlewares in Django?

Ans: Some usage of middlewares in Django is:
Session management,
Use authentication
Cross-site request forgery protection
Content Gzipping, etc.

18. What does of Django field class types do?

Ans: The Django field class types specify:
The database column type.
The default HTML widget to avail while rendering a form field.
The minimal validation requirements used in Django admin.
Automatic generated forms.

19. What is the command to start Django’s built-in development server?

A. manage.py runserver
B. manage.py –start
C. manage.py run
D. manage.py startserver –dev
E. manage.py –run
Ans: A

20. Given a model named ‘User’ that contains a DateTime field named
‘last_login’, how do you query for users that have never logged in?
A. User.objects.filter( last_login=Null )
B. User.objects.filter( last_login__null=True )
C. User.objects.filter( last_login__isnull=False )
D. User.objects.filter( last_login__isnull=True )
E. User.objects.filter( last_login=Never )
Ans: D

 
21. What does the Django command `manage.py shell` do?
A. Starts a command line in whatever $SHELL your environment uses.
B. Starts a Django command prompt with your Python environment pre-loaded.
C. Starts a Python command prompt with your Django environment pre-loaded.
D. Loads a special Pythonic version of the Bash shell.
E. Loads a Python command prompt you can use to sync your database schema remotely.
Ans: C

22. Assuming you’ve imported the proper Django model file, how do you
add a ‘User’ model to the Django admin?
A. admin.register( Users )
B. admin.site( self, User )
C. user.site.register( Admin )
D. users.site.register( Admin )
E. admin.site.register( User )
Ans: E

23. What is the Django command to start a new app named ‘users’ in an
existing project?
A. manage.py –newapp users
B. manage.py newapp users
C. manage.py –startapp users
D. manage.py startapp users
E. manage.py start users
Ans: D

24. What does a urls.py file do in Django?

A. This file contains site deployment data such as server names and ports.
B. It contains a site map of Django-approved URLs.
C. It contains URL matching patterns and their corresponding view methods.
D. You run this file when you get obscure 404 Not Found errors in your server logs.
E. This file provides an up to date list of how-to URLs for learning Django more easily.
Ans: C

25. What is the command to run Django’s development server on port

8080 on IP address 12.34.56.78?
A. manage.py –run 12.34.56.78 8080
B. manage.py –dev 12.34.56.78:8080
C. manage.py runserver 12.34.56.78:8000
D. manage.py run 12.34.56.78:8080
E. manage.py runserver 12.34.56.78:8080
Ans: E

26. Django is written using what programming language?

A. PHP
B. Ruby
C. Javascript
D. Java
E. Python
Ans: E

27. After you make a new ‘app’ in your existing Django project, how do
you get Django to notice it?
 A. No additional action is required, Django notices new apps automatically.
B. Run the `manage.py validate` command, and then start a new shell.
C. Run the `manage.py syncdb` command.
D. In settings.py, add the app to the PROJECT_APPS variable.
E. In settings.py, add the new app to the INSTALLED_APPS variable.
Ans: E

 
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28. What is the purpose of settings.py?
A. To configure settings for the Django project
B. To configure settings for an app
C. To set the date and time on the server
D. To sync the database schema
Ans: A

29. How do you define a ‘name’ field in a Django model with a maximum
length of 255 characters?
A. name = models.CharField(max_len=255)
B. model.CharField(max_length=255)
C. name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
D. model = CharField(max_length=255)
E. name = model.StringField(max_length=auto)
Ans: C

30. What is the definition of a good Django app?

A. A good Django app provides a small, specific piece of functionality that can be used
in any number of Django projects.
B. A good Django app is a fully functioning website that has 100% test coverage.
C. A good Django app is highly customized and cannot be used in multiple projects.
Ans: A

31. What is the most easiest, fastest, and most stable deployment choice
in most cases with Django?
A. FastCGI
B. mod_wsgi
C. SCGI
D. AJP
Ans: B

32. How do you exclude a specific field from a ModelForm?

A. Create a new Form, don’t use a ModelForm
B. Use the exclude parameter in the Meta class in your form
C. Set the field to hidden
D. You can not do this
Ans: B

33. Assuming you have a Django model named ‘User’, how do you
define a foreign key field for this model in another model?
A. model = new ForeignKey(User)
B. user = models.IntegerKey(User)
C. user = models.ForeignKey(User)
D. models.ForeignKey( self, User )
Ans: C

34. What preferred method do you add to a Django model to get a better
string representation of the model in the Django admin?
A. __unicode__
B. to_s( self )
C. __translate__
D. __utf_8__
Ans: A

36. What is Model Form used for?

A. To model an input form for a template
B. To specify rules for correct form when writing Django code
C. To define a form based on an existing model
Ans: C

37. What happens if MyObject.objects.get() is called with parameters

that do not match an existing item in the database?
A. The Http404 exception is raised.
B. The DatabaseError exception is raised.
C. The MyObject.DoesNotExist exception is raised.
D. The object is created and returned.
Ans: C

38. A set of helpful applications to use within your Django projects is

included in the official distribution. This module is called what?
A. django.extras
B. django.helpers
C. django.utilities
D. django.ponies
E. django.contrib
Ans: E

39. What is the correct syntax for including a class based view in a
URLconf?
A. (r’^pattern/$’, YourView.as_view()),
B. (r’^pattern/$’, YourView.init()),
C. (r’^pattern/$’, YourView),
D. (r’^pattern/$’, YourView()),
Ans: A

40. What is the command to start a new Django project called

‘myproject’?
A. django-admin.py startproject myproject
B. django-admin.py –start myproject
C. django.py startproject myproject
D. django.py –new myproject
E. django.py new myproject
Ans: A
41. How to make django timezone-aware?
A. In settings.py: USE_L10N=True
B. in views.py, import timezone
C. in views.py, import tz
D. in urls.py, import timezone
E. In settings.py: USE_TZ=True
Ans: E

42. In Django how would you retrieve all the ‘User’ records from a given
database?
A. User.objects.all()
B. Users.objects.all()
C. User.all_records()
D. User.object.all()
E. User.objects
Ans: A

43. How can you define additional behavior and characteristics of a

Django class?
A. def setUp():
B. class Meta:
C. class __init__:
D. def Meta():
E. def __init__():
Ans: B

44. What is the Django shortcut method to more easily render an html
response?
A. render_to_html
B. render_to_response
C. response_render
D. render
Ans: B

45. What does the Django command `manage.py validate` do?

A. Checks for errors in your views.
B. Checks for errors in your templates.
C. Checks for errors in your controllers.
D. Checks for errors in your models.
E. Checks for errors in your settings.py file.
Ans: D
46. What is the correct way to include django’s admin urls? from
django.contrib import admin’) from django.conf.urls import patterns,
include, url urlpatterns = patterns(”, ______________________ )
A. url(r’^admin/’, admin.as_view(), name=’admin ),
B. url(r’^admin/’, include(admin) ),
C. url(r’^admin/’, include(admin.site.urls) ),
D. url(r’^admin/’, admin.urls ),
E. admin.autodiscover()
Ans: C

47. Where is pre_save signal in Django

A. from django.db.models import pre_save
B. from django.db.models.signals import pre_save
C. There is no pre_save signal
D. from django.db.models.signal import pre_save
Ans: B

48. Given the Python data: mydata = [ [ 0, ‘Fred’ ], [ 1, ‘Wilma’ ] ] How do

you access the data in a Django template?
A. {% for d in mydata %}
{% d.1 %}
{% endfor %}
B. {% for d in mydata -%}
{{ d.1 }}
{% end -%}
C. {% for d in mydata %}
{{ d.1 }}
{% endfor %}
D. {{ for d in mydata }}
{{ d[1] }}
{{ endfor }}
E. {% mydata.each |d| %}
{{ d.2 }}
{% end %}
Ans: C

49. What is the purpose of the STATIC_ROOT setting?

A. Defines the URL prefix where static files will be served from .
B. Defines the location where all static files will be copied by the ‘collectstatic’
management command, to be served by the production webserver.
C. A project’s static assets should be stored here to be served by the development
server.
D. Defines the location for serving user uploaded files.
Ans: B
 
50. How to create a DateTimeField named created and filled in only on
the creation with the current time?
A. created = models.CreationTimeField()
B. created = models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now())
C. created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True, auto_now=True)
D. created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
E. created = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
Ans: E

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51. What is the difference between a project and an app in

Django?
Ans: In Django, a project is the entire application and an app is a module inside the project that
deals with one specific requirement. E.g., if the entire project is an ecommerce site, then inside the
project we will have several apps, such as the retail site app, the buyer site app, the shipment site
app, etc.

52. What is Django Admin Interface?

Ans: Django comes with a fully customizable in-built admin interface, which lets us see and make
changes to all the data in the database of registered apps and models. To use a database table with
the admin interface, we need to register the model in the admin.py file.

53. Explain Django’s Request/Response Cycle.

Ans: In the Request/Response Cycle, first, a request is received by the Django server. Then, the
server looks for a matching URL in the urlpatterns defined for the project. If no matching URL is
found, then a response with 404 status code is returned. If a URL matches, then the corresponding
code in the view file associated with the URL is executed to build and send a response.

54. What is a model in Django?

Ans: A model is a Python class in Django that is derived from the django.db.models.Model class. A
model is used in Django to represent a table in a database. It is used to interact with and get results
from the database tables of our application.

55. What are migrations in Django?

Ans: A migration in Django is a Python file that contains changes we make to our models so that
they can be converted into a database schema in our DBMS. So, instead of manually making
changes to our database schema by writing queries in our DBMS shell, we can just make changes
to our models. Then, we can use Django to generate migrations from those model changes and run
those migrations to make changes to our database schema.
 56. What are views in Django?
Ans: A view in Django is a class and/or a function that receives a request and returns a response. A
view is usually associated with urlpatterns, and the logic encapsulated in a view is run when a
request to the URL associated with it is run. A view, among other things, gets data from the
database using models, passes that data to the templates, and sends back the rendered template to
the user as an HttpResponse.

57. What is the use of the include function in the urls.py file
in Django?
Ans: As in Django there can be many apps, each app may have some URLs that it responds to.
Rather than registering all URLs for all apps in a single urls.py file, each app maintains its own
urls.py file, and in the project’s urls.py file we use each individual urls.py file of each app by using the
include function.

58. Why is Django called a loosely coupled framework?

Ans: Django is called a loosely coupled framework because of its MVT architecture, which is a
variant of the MVC architecture. It helps in separating the server code from the client-related code.
Django’s models and views take care of the code that needs to be run on the server like getting
records from database, etc., and the templates are mostly HTML and CSS that just need data from
models passed in by the views to render them. Since these components are independent of each
other, Django is called a loosely coupled framework.

59.Mention the architecture of Django architecture?

Ans: Django architecture consists of
 Models: It describes your database schema and your data structure
 Views: It controls what a user sees, the view retrieves data from appropriate
models and execute any calculation made to the data and pass it to the template
 Templates: It determines how the user sees it. It describes how the data
received from the views should be changed or formatted for display on the page
 Controller: The Django framework and URL parsing

 
60. Why Django should be used for web-development?
Ans:
 It allows you to divide code modules into logical groups to make it flexible to
change
 To ease the website administration, it provides auto-generated web admin
 It provides pre-packaged API for common user tasks
 It gives you template system to define HTML template for your web page to avoid
code duplication
 It enables you to define what URL be for a given function
 It enables you to separate business logic from the HTML
 Everything is in python

 
61. Explain how you can create a project in Django?
Ans: To start a project in Django, you use command $ django-admin.py and then use
the command
Project
_init_.py
manage.py
settings.py
urls.py

 
62. Explain how you can set up the Database in Django?
Ans: You can use the command edit mysite/setting.py , it is a normal python module
with module level representing Django settings.
Django uses SQLite by default; it is easy for Django users as such it won’t require any
other type of installation. In the case your database choice is different that you have to
the following keys in the DATABASE ‘default’ item to match your database connection
settings
 Engines: you can change database by using ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3’ ,
‘django.db.backeneds.mysql’, ‘django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2’,
‘django.db.backends.oracle’ and so on
 Name: The name of your database. In the case if you are using SQLite as your
database, in that case database will be a file on your computer, Name should be a full
absolute path, including file name of that file.
If you are not choosing SQLite as your database then setting like Password, Host, User,
etc. must be added.
 

63. Give an example how you can write a VIEW in Django?

Ans: Views are Django functions that take a request and return a response.  To write a
view in Django we take a simple example of “Guru99_home” which uses the template
Guru99_home.html and uses the date-time module to tell us what the time is whenever
the page is refreshed.  The file we required to edit is called view.py, and it will be inside
mysite/myapp/
Copy the below code into it and save the file
       from datatime import datetime
      from django.shortcuts import render
     def home (request):
return render(request, ‘Guru99_home.html’, {‘right_now’: datetime.utcnow()})
Once you have determined the VIEW, you can uncomment this line in urls.py
 # url ( r ‘^$’ , ‘mysite.myapp.views.home’ , name ‘Guru99’),
The last step will reload your web app so that the changes are noticed by the web
server.

 
64. Explain how you can setup static files in Django?
Ans: There are three main things required to set up static files in Django
 Set STATIC_ROOT in settings.py
 run manage.py collectsatic
 set up a Static Files entry on the PythonAnywhere web tab

 
65. Mention what does the Django templates consists of?
Ans: The template is a simple text file.  It can create any text-based format like XML,
CSV, HTML, etc.  A template contains variables that get replaced with values when the
template is evaluated and tags (% tag %) that controls the logic of the template.

66. Explain the use of session framework in Django?

Ans: In Django, the session framework enables you to store and retrieve arbitrary data
on a per-site-visitor basis.  It stores data on the server side and abstracts the receiving
and sending of cookies.  Session can be implemented through a piece of middleware.

 
67. Explain how you can use file based sessions?
Ans: To use file based session you have to set the SESSION_ENGINE settings to
“django.contrib.sessions.backends.file”

68. Explain the migration in Django and how you can do in SQL?
Ans: Migration in Django is to make changes to your models like deleting a model,
adding a field, etc. into your database schema.  There are several commands you use
to interact with migrations.
 Migrate
 Makemigrations
 Sqlmigrate
To do the migration in SQL, you have to print the SQL statement for resetting
sequences for a given app name.
django-admin.py sqlsequencreset
Use this command to generate SQL that will fix cases where a sequence is out sync
with its automatically incremented field data.

69. Mention what command line can be used to load data into Django?
 Ans: To load data into Django you have to use the command line Django-admin.py
loaddata. The command line will searches the data and loads the contents of the
named fixtures into the database.

70. Explain what does django-admin.py makemessages command is

used for?
Ans: This command line executes over the entire source tree of the current directory
and abstracts all the strings marked for translation.  It makes a message file in the
locale directory.

71. List out the inheritance styles in Django?

Ans: In Django, there is three possible inheritance styles
 Abstract base classes: This style is used when you only wants parent’s class to
hold information that you don’t want to type out for each child model
 Multi-table Inheritance: This style is used If you are sub-classing an existing
model and need each model to have its own database table
 Proxy models: You can use this model, If you only want to modify the Python
level behavior of the model, without changing the model’s fields

72. Mention what does the Django field class types?

Ans: Field class types determines
 The database column type
 The default HTML widget to avail while rendering a form field
 The minimal validation requirements used in Django admin and in automatically
generated forms

73. What constitutes Django templates ?

Ans: Template can create formats like XML,HTML and CSV(which are text based
formats). In general terms template is a simple text file. It is made up of variables that
will later be replaced by values after the template is evaluated and has tags which will
control template’s logic.

74. List some typical usage of middlewares in Django.

Ans: Some of the typical usage of middlewares in Django are: Session management,
user authentication, cross-site request forgery protection, content Gzipping, etc.

75. How do you use views in Django? 

Ans: Views will take request to return response.  Let’s write a view in
Django :  “example” using template example.html , using  the date-time module to tell us
exact time of reloading the page.  Let’s edit a file called view.py, and it will be inside
randomsite/randomapp/
To do this save and copy following into a file:
Default
from datatime import datetime
from django.shortcuts import render
def home (request):
return render(request, ‘Guru99_home.html’, {‘right_now’: datetime.utcnow()})
Default
You have to determine the  VIEW first, and then uncomment this line located in
file urls.py
# url ( r ‘^$’ , ‘randomsite.randomapp.views.home’ , name ‘example’),

76. How do you make a Django app that is test driven and will display
Fibonacci’s sequence?
This will reload the site making changes obvious.
Ans: Keep in mind that it should take an index number and output the sequence.
Additionally, there should be a page that shows the most recent generated sequences.
Following is one of the solution for generating fibonacci series:
Default
def fib(n):
“Complexity: O(log(n))”
if n <= 0:
return 0
i = n – 1
(a, b) = (1, 0)
(c, d) = (0, 1)
while i > 0:
if i % 2:
(a, b) = (d * b + c * a,  d * (b + a) + c * b)
(c, d) = (c * c + d * d, d * (2 * c + d))
i = i / 2
return a + b
Default
Below is a model that would keep track of latest numbers:
from django.db import models
class Fibonacci(models.Model):
parameter = models.IntegerField(primary_key=True)
result = models.CharField(max_length=200)
time = models.DateTimeField()
DefaultFor view, you can simply use the following code:
 
from models import Fibonacci
def index(request):
result = None
if request.method==”POST”:
try:
n=int(request.POST.get(‘n’))
 except:
return Http404
try:
result = Fibonacci.objects.get(pk=n)
result.time = datetime.now()
except DoesNotExist:
result = str(fib(n))
result = Fibonacci(n, result, datetime.now())
result.save()
return direct_to_template(request, ‘base.html’, {‘result’:result.result})
You could use models to get last ‘n’ entities.

 
77.What makes up Django architecture?
Ans: Django runs on MVC architecture. Following are the components that make up
django architecture:
 Models: Models elaborate back-end stuffs like database schema.(relationships)
 Views: Views control what is to be shown to end-user.
 Templates: Templates deal with formatting of view.
 Controller: Takes entire control of Models.A MVC framework can be compared
to a Cable TV with remote. A Television set is View(that interacts with end user), cable
provider is model(that works in back-end) and Controller is remote that controls which
channel to select and display it through view.

78. What does session framework do in django framework ?

Ans: Session framework in django will store data on server side and interact with end-
users. Session is generally used with a middle-ware. It also helps in receiving and
sending cookies for authentication of a user.

 
79.Can you create singleton object in python?If yes, how do you do it?
Ans: Yes, you can create singleton object. Here’s how you do it :
Default

12 class Singleton(object):def __new__(cls,*args,**kwargs):
3 if not hasattr(cls,’_inst’):
4 cls._inst = super(Singleton,cls).__new__(cls,*args,**kwargs)
5 return cls._inst

 
80. Mention caching strategies that you know in Django!
Ans: Few caching strategies that are available in Django are as follows:
 File sytem caching
 In-memory caching
 Using Memcached
 Database caching

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81. What are inheritance type in Django?
Ans: There are 3 inheritance types in Django
 Abstract base classes
 Multi-table Inheritance
 Proxy models

 
82. What do you think are limitation of Django Object relation
mapping(ORM) ?
Ans: If the data is complex and consists of multiple joins using the SQL  will be clearer.
If Performance is a concern for your, ORM aren’t your choice. Genrally. Object-relation-
mapping are considered good option to construct an optimized query, SQL has an
upper hand when compared to ORM.

 
83. How to Start Django project with ‘Hello World!’? Just say hello world
in django project.
Ans: There are 7 steps ahead to start Django project.
Step 1: Create project in terminal/shell
f2finterview:~$ django-admin.py startproject sampleproject
Step 2: Create application
f2finterview:~$ cd sampleproject/
f2finterview:~/sampleproject$ python manage.py startapp sampleapp
Step 3: Make template directory and index.html file
f2finterview:~/sampleproject$ mkdir templates
f2finterview:~/sampleproject$ cd templates/
f2finterview:~/sampleproject/templates$ touch index.html
Step 4: Configure initial configuration in settings.py
Add PROJECT_PATH and PROJECT_NAME
import os
PROJECT_PATH = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
PROJECT_NAME = ‘sampleproject’
Add Template directories path
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, ‘templates’),
)
Add Your app to INSTALLED_APPS
INSTALLED_APPS = (
‘sampleapp’,
)
Step 5: Urls configuration in urls.py
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, include, url
urlpatterns = patterns(”,
url(r’^$’, ‘sampleproject.sampleapp.views.index’, name=’index’),
)
Step 6: Add index method in views.py
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, get_object_or_404
from django.template import RequestContext
def index(request):
welcome_msg = ‘Hello World’
return
render_to_response(‘index.html’,locals(),context_instance=RequestContext(request))
Step7: Add welcome_msg in index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Heading For Say…</h1>
<p>{{welcome_msg}}</p>
</body>
</html>

 
84. How to login with email instead of username in Django?
Ans: Use bellow sample method to login with email or username.
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.contrib.sites.models import Site
from django.template import Context, RequestContext
from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_protect
@csrf_protect
@never_cache
def
signin(request,redirect_field_name=REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME,authentication_form=Lo
ginForm):
redirect_to = request.REQUEST.get(redirect_field_name,
settings.LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL)
form = authentication_form()
current_site = Site.objects.get_current()
if request.method == “POST”:
pDict =request.POST.copy()
form = authentication_form(data=request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
username = form.cleaned_data[‘username’]
password = form.cleaned_data[‘password’]
try:
user = User.objects.get(email=username)
username = user.username
except User.DoesNotExist:
username = username
user = authenticate(username=username, password=password)
# Log the user in.
login(request, user)
return HttpResponseRedirect(redirect_to)
else:
form = authentication_form()
request.session.set_test_cookie()
if Site._meta.installed:
current_site = Site.objects.get_current()
else:
current_site = RequestSite(request)
return render_to_response(‘login.html’,locals(),
context_instance=RequestContext(request))

 
85. How Django processes a request?
Ans: When a user requests a page from your Django-powered site, this is the algorithm
the system follows to determine which Python code to execute:
Django determines the root URLconf module to use. Ordinarily, this is the value of the
ROOT_URLCONF setting, but if the incoming HttpRequest object has an attribute
called urlconf (set by middleware request processing), its value will be used in place of
the ROOT_URLCONF setting.
Django loads that Python module and looks for the variable urlpatterns. This should be
a Python list, in the format returned by the function django.conf.urls.patterns()
Django runs through each URL pattern, in order, and stops at the first one that matches
the requested URL.
Once one of the regexes matches, Django imports and calls the given view, which is a
simple Python function (or a class based view). The view gets passed an HttpRequest
as its first argument and any values captured in the regex as remaining arguments.
If no regex matches, or if an exception is raised during any point in this process, Django
invokes an appropriate error-handling view.
86. How to filter latest record by date in Django?
Ans: Messages(models.Model):
     message_from = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name=”%(class)s_from”)
message_to = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name=”%(class)s_to”)
message=models.CharField(max_length=140,help_text=”Your message”)
created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
class Meta:
db_table = ‘messages’
Query:messages = Messages.objects.filter(message_to = user).order_by(‘-created_on’)
[0]
Output:
message_from | message_to  | message                 | created_on
——————|—————–|——————–|——————–
Stephen        | Anto              | Hi, How are you? | 2012-10-09 14:27:48

 
87.How to filter data from Django models using python datetime?
Ans: Assume Bellow model for storing messages with timelines
class Message(models.Model):
from = models.ForeignKey(User,related_name = “%(class)s_from”)
to = models.ForeignKey(User, related_name = “%(class)s_to”)
msg = models.CharField(max_length=255)
rating = models.IntegerField(blank=’True’,default=0)
created_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
updated_on = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)
Filter messages with specified Date and Time
today = date.today().strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’)
yesterday = date.today() – timedelta(days=1)
yesterday = yesterday.strftime(‘%Y-%m-%d’)
this_month = date.today().strftime(‘%m’)
last_month = date.today() – timedelta(days=32)
last_month = last_month.strftime(‘%m’)
this_year = date.today().strftime(‘%Y’)
last_year = date.today() – timedelta(days=367)
last_year = last_year.strftime(‘%Y’)
today_msgs = Message.objects.filter(created_on__gte=today).count()
yesterday_msgs = Message.objects.filter(created_on__gte=yesterday).count()
this_month_msgs =
Message.objects.filter(created_on__month=this_month,created_on__year=this_year).c
ount()
last_month_msgs =
Message.objects.filter(created_on__month=last_month,created_on__year=this_year).c
ount()
this_year_msgs = Message.objects.filter(created_on__year=this_year).count()
last_year_msgs = Message.objects.filter(created_on__year=last_year).count()
  
88. What does Django mean?
Ans: Django is named after Django Reinhardt, a gypsy jazz guitarist from the 1930s to
early 1950s who is known as one of the best guitarists of all time.

 
89. Which architectural pattern does Django Follow?
Ans: Django follows Model-View Controller (MVC) architectural pattern.

 
90. Is Django a high level web framework or low level framework?
Ans: Django is a high level Python’s web framework which was designed for rapid
development and clean realistic design.

 
91. How would you pronounce Django?
Ans: Django is pronounced JANG-oh. Here D is silent.

 
92. How does Django work?
Ans: Django can be broken into many components:
Models.py file: This file defines your data model by extending your single line of code
into full database tables and add a pre-built administration section to manage content.
Urls.py file: It uses regular expression to capture URL patterns for processing.
Views.py file: It is the main part of Django. The actual processing happens in view.
When a visitor lands on Django page, first Django checks the URLs pattern you have
created and uses information to retrieve the view. After that view processes the request,
querying your database if necessary, and passes the requested information to template.
After that the template renders the data in a layout you have created and displays the
page.

 
93. Which foundation manages Django web framework?
Ans: Django web framework is managed and maintained by an independent and non-
profit organization named Django Software Foundation (DSF).

94. Is Django stable?

Ans: Yes, Django is quite stable. Many companies like Disqus, Instagram, Pinterest,
and Mozilla have been using Django for many years.

 
95. What are the features available in Django web framework?
Ans: Features available in Django web framework are:
 Admin Interface (CRUD)
 Templating
 Form handling
 Internationalization
 Session, user management, role-based permissions
 Object-relational mapping (ORM)
 Testing Framework
 Fantastic Documentation

 
96. What are the advantages of using Django for web development?
Ans:
 It facilitates you to divide code modules into logical groups to make it flexible to
change.
 It provides auto-generated web admin to make website administration easy.
 It provides pre-packaged API for common user tasks.
 It provides template system to define HTML template for your web page to avoid
code duplication.
 It enables you to define what URL is for a given function.
 It enables you to separate business logic from the HTML.

97. How to create a project in Django?

Ans: To start a project in Django, use the command $django-admin.py and then use
the following command:
Project
_init_.py
manage.py
settings.py
urls.py

98. What are the inheritance styles in Django?

Ans: There are three possible inheritance styles in Django:
1) Abstract base classes: This style is used when you only want parent’s class to hold
information that you don’t want to type out for each child model.
2) Multi-table Inheritance: This style is used if you are sub-classing an existing model
and need each model to have its own database table.
3) Proxy models: This style is used, if you only want to modify the Python level
behavior of the model, without changing the model’s fields.

99. How can you set up the database in Djanago?

Ans: A: To set up a database in Django, you can use the command edit
mysite/setting.py , it is a normal python module with module level representing Django
settings.
By default, Django uses SQLite database. It is easy for Django users because it doesn’t
require any other type of installation. In the case of other database you have to the
following keys in the DATABASE ‘default’ item to match your database connection
settings.
Engines: you can change database by using ‘django.db.backends.sqlite3’ ,
‘django.db.backeneds.mysql’, ‘django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2’,
‘django.db.backends.oracle’ and so on
Name: The name of your database. In the case if you are using SQLite as your
database, in that case database will be a file on your computer, Name should be a full
absolute path, including file name of that file.
Note: You have to add setting likes setting like Password, Host, User, etc. in your
database, if you are not choosing SQLite as your database.

100. What does the Django templates contain?

Ans: A template is a simple text file. It can create any text-based format like XML, CSV,
HTML, etc. A template contains variables that get replaced with values when the
template is evaluated and tags (%tag%) that controls the logic of the template.

101. Is Django a content management system (CMS)?

Ans: No, Django is not a CMS. Instead, it is a Web framework and a programming tool
that makes you able to build websites.

102.What is the use of session framework in Django?

Ans: The session framework facilitates you to store and retrieve arbitrary data on a per-
site visitor basis. It stores data on the server side and abstracts the receiving and
sending of cookies. Session can be implemented through a piece of middleware.

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103. Explain Django Admin Interface?
Ans. The Django Admin interface is predefined interface made to fulfill the need of web
developers as they won’t need to make another admin panel which is time-consuming
and expensive.
Django Admin is application imported from django.contrib packages. It is operated by
the organization itself and thus  doesn’t need the extensive frontend.
Admin interface of Django has its own user authentication and most of the general
features. It also offers lots of advanced features like authorization access, managing
different models, CMS (Content Management System), etc.

 
104. Explain Django.
Ans. Django is web application framework which is  a free and open source. Django is
written in Python. It is a server-side web framework that provides rapid development of
secure and maintainable websites.

105. What does Django mean?

Ans. Django Reinhardt, was a gypsy jazz guitarist from the 1930s to early 1950s who is
known as one of the best guitarists of all time. The name was given Django after this
person.

 
106. Which architectural pattern does Django follow?
Ans. Django follows Model-View-Template (MVT) architectural pattern.
The graph below shows the MVT based control flow.

Request is made by the user for a resource to the Django, Django works as a controller
and check to the available resource in URL.
When the mapping of URL is found , a view is called that interact with model and
template, it renders a template.
After that Django responds back to the user and sends a template as a response.

 
107. Explain Django architecture.
Ans. Django follows MVT (Model View Template) pattern. It is slightly different from
MVC.
Model: It is the data access layer. It contains everything about the data, i.e., how to
access it, how to validate it, its behaviors and the relationships between the data.
Let’s see an example. We are creating  Employee model who has two fields first_name
and last_name.
from django.db import models
class Employee(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=30)
View: It is the business logic layer. This layer contains the logic that accesses the
model and defers to the appropriate template. It is like a bridge between the model and
the template.
import datetime
# Create your views here.
from django.http import HttpResponse
def index(request):
now = datetime.datetime.now()
html = “&lt;html&gt;&lt;body><h3>Now time is %s.</h3>&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html>” % now
return HttpResponse(html)    # rendering the template in HttpResponse
Template: It is a presentation layer. This layer contains presentation-related decisions,
i.e., how something should be displayed on a Web page or other type of document.
For the configuration of the templates, we have to provide some entries in settings.py
file.
TEMPLATES = [
{
‘BACKEND’: ‘django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates’,
‘DIRS’: [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,’templates’)],
‘APP_DIRS’: True,
‘OPTIONS’: {
‘context_processors’: [
‘django.template.context_processors.debug’,
‘django.template.context_processors.request’,
‘django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth’,
‘django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages’,
],
},
},
]

 
108. Explain the working of Django?
Ans. Django can be broken into following components:
Models.py : Models.py  file will define your data model by extending your single line of
code into full database tables and add a pre-built administration section to manage
content.
Urls.py : Uses a regular expression to capture URL patterns for processing.
Views.py : This is main part of Django. The presentation logic is defined in this.
When a visitor visits  Django page, first Django checks the URLs pattern you have
created and use this information to retrieve the view. Then it is the responsibility of view
to processes the request, querying your database if necessary, and passes the
requested information to a template.
Then template renders the data in a layout you have created and displayed the page.

 
109. Name the foundation that manages the Django web framework?
Ans. Django is managed and maintained by an independent and non-profit organization
named . Goal of foundation  is to promote, support, and advance the Django Web
framework.

 
110. Comment about  Django’s stability?
Ans. Django is quite stable web development framework.There are  many companies
like Disqus, Instagram, Pinterest, and Mozilla that are using Django for many years.

 
111.  Specify the features available in Django web framework?
Ans. Features available in Django web framework are:
Admin Interface (CRUD)
Templating
Form handling
Internationalization
A Session, user management, role-based permissions
Object-relational mapping (ORM)
Testing Framework
Fantastic Documentation

 
112.  Explain the advantages of Django?
Ans. Advantages of Django:
Web development framework Django is a Python’s framework which is easy to learn.
It is clear and readable.
It is versatile.
It is fast to write.
No loopholes in design.
It is secure.
It is scalable.
It is versatile.
 

 
113. What are the disadvantages of Django?
Ans. Following is the list of disadvantages of Django:
Django’ modules are bulky.
It is completely based on Django ORM.
Components are deployed together.
You must know the full system to work with it.

 
114.  What are the inheritance styles in Django?
Ans. There are three possible inheritance styles in Django:
1) Abstract base class: In this only parent’s class to hold information that you don’t want
to type out for each child model then this style is used.
2) Multi-table Inheritance: This inheritance style is used if you are sub-classing an
existing model and need each model to have its database table.
3) Proxy models: Proxy models is used, if you only want to modify the Python level
behavior of the model, without changing the model’s fields.

 
115. Is Django a CMS i.e. content management system?
Ans. No, Django is not a CMS. But, it is a Web framework and a programming tool that
makes you able to build websites.

 
116. Can you set up static files in Django? How?
Ans. Yes we can. We need to set three main things to set up static files in Django:
1) Set STATIC_ROOT in settings.py
2) run manage.py collect static
3) Static Files entry on the PythonAnywhere web tab

 
117. What is some typical usage of middlewares in Django?
Ans. Some usage of middlewares in Django is:
Session management,
Use authentication
Cross-site request forgery protection
Content Gzipping

118. What is the use of Django field class type?

Ans. Django field class type specifies:
The database column type.
Default HTML widget used to avail while rendering a form field.
The minimal validation requirements used in Django admin.
Automatic generated forms.

 
119. Explain the use of Django-admin.py and manage.py?
Ans. admin.py: This is Django’s command line utility for administrative tasks.
Manage.py: This file is created automatically in each Django project. It is a thin wrapper
around the Django-admin.py. It has the following usage:
It puts your project’s package on sys.path.
DJANGO_SETTING_MODULE is the environment variable used to points to your
project’s setting.py file.

120. What are the signals in Django?

Ans. Signals in Django are pieces of code which contain information about what is
happening. A dispatcher is used to sending the signals and listen for those signals.
 
121. What are the two important parameters in signals?
Ans. Two important parameters in signals are:
Receiver: It specifies the callback function which connected to the signal.
Sender: It specifies a particular sender from where a signal is received.

122. How to handle URLs in Django?

In order to handle URL in Django, django.urls module is used by the Django framework.
Given below is the urls.py file of the project, lets see how it looks:
// urls.py
from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path
urlpatterns = [
path(‘admin/’, admin.site.urls),
]
We can see that,  Django  has already mentioned a URL here for the admin.  Function
path takes the first argument as a route of string or regex type.
Argument view is a view function which is used to return a response (template) to the
user.
Module django.urls contains various functions, path(route,view,kwargs,name) is one of
those which is used to map the URL and call the specified view.

 
123. What is Django Session?
Ans. In Django session is a mechanism to store information on the server side during
the interaction with the web application. Session stores in the database and also allows
file-based and cache based sessions,  by default,

124 Explainthe role of Cookie in Django?

Ans. Cookie is nothing but a small piece of information which is stored in the client
browser. Cookies are used to store user’s data in a file permanently (or for the specified
time). There is an  expiry date and time for each cookie and removes automatically
when gets expire. There are built-in methods to set and fetch cookie provided by
Django.
set_cookie() method is used to set a cookie and get() method is used to get the cookie.
request.COOKIES[‘key’] is an array which canbe used to get cookie values.
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def setcookie(request):
response = HttpResponse(“Cookie Set”)
response.set_cookie(‘java-tutorial’, ‘javatpoint.com’)
return response
def getcookie(request):
tutorial  = request.COOKIES[‘java-tutorial’]
return HttpResponse(“java tutorials @: “+  tutorial);
  

 
125. What is the difference between Flask and Django?
Comparison Factor Django Flask

Project Type Supports large projects Built for smaller p

Templates, Admin and

Built-in Requires installat
ORM

Ease of Learning Requires more learning and practice Easy to learn

Allows complete web development without the More flexible as t

Flexibility
need for third-party tools their choice and r

Visual Debugging Does not support Visual Debug Supports Visual D

Type of framework Batteries included Simple, lightweig

Bootstrapping-tool Built-it Not available

 

126. How do you check for the version of Django installed on your

system?
Ans:  
To check for the version of Django installed on your system, you can open the
command prompt and enter the following command:
 python -m django –version
You can also try to import Django and use the get_version() method as follows:

1
importdjango
2 print(django.get_version())

127. What is the usage of middlewares in Django?

Ans: Middlewares are used  go to modify the request i.e. HttpRequest object which is
sent to the view, to modify the HttpResponse object returned from the view and to
perform an operation before the view executes.

128. What are the roles of receiver and sender in signals?

 The receiver is the callback function which will be connected to a signal
 The sender specifies a particular sender to receive signals from
 129. What does Django templates contain ?
Ans: Django templates contains the static parts of the desired HTML output as well as
some special syntax describing how dynamic content will be inserted.

130. How to create super user in django ?

To create a super user,,
 Create project using the django-admin startproject command.
 Move into the project location and run python manage.py makemigrations &&
python manage.py migrate && python manage.py createsuperuser

131. How to create simple application in django ?

To create a simple application  use the command django-admin startproject followed
by the application’s name.

 
132. What is ORM ? Advantages of ORM ?
ORM (Object-relational mapping) is a programming technique for converting data
between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages.
Advantages include:
 Concurrency support
 Cache management

133. How to create a model in django ?

Add the model object in the models.py file, updated settings for the newly created app
by adding it to the INSTALLED_APPS section in settings.py, make migrations, and
verify the database schema.

 
134. What is migration in django ?
Migrations are a way of propagating changes made in the model into the database
schema (adding a field, deleting a model, etc.)

135. How to do migrations in django ?

To do migrations , create or update a model and in the app directory, run the
command ./manage.py makemigrations <app name> && ./manage.py migrate <app
name>

136. How to clear cache in django ?

To clear cache, run the clear() method from django.core.cache in a python script.

137. What is Rest API ?

A REST API is an application program interface that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT,
POST and DELETE data.

 
138. How to Create APIs in Django ?
Create a project directory,  create python virtual environment,   and activate it, install
Django and djangorestframework using the pip install command. In the same project
directory, create  project using the command django-admin.py startproject api. Start
the app. Add the rest_framework and the Djano app to INSTALLED_APPS to settings.
Open the api/urls.py and add urls for the Django app. We can then create models and
make migrations, create serializers, and finally wiring up the views.

139. What is DRF of Django Rest Frame work ?

Django Rest Framework (DRF) is a powerful module for building web APIs. It’s very
easy to build model-backed APIs that have authentication policies and are browsable.

140. How to Fetch data from apis using Django ?

We use the Fetch API and SessionAuthentication  by adding it to the settings.py file
on the server and on the client, include  the getCookie method. Finally, use the fetch
method to call your endpoint.

141. How to update the data from apis ?

We update data by sending PUT requests. Add a new path in the data
model urlpatterns from which the update will be sent to. We then add an update
method to the serializer that will do the update.

142. What is Authentication ?

Authentication is the process or action of verifying the identity of a user or process.

143. Types of Authentication in REST API ?

Token based authentication and Session based authentication.

144. What is token based authentication system ?

A token based authentication system is a security system that authenticates the users
who attempt to log in to a server, a network, or some other secure system, using a
security token provided by the server

145. Can i use django apis in mobile application development ?  

Yes

146. Explain Mixins in Django ?

A mixin is a special kind of multiple inheritance. There are two main situations where
mixins are used: to provide a lot of optional features for a class and to use one
particular feature in a lot of different classes
 147. Different types caching strategies in django ?
Different types of  caching strategies  include Filesystem caching, in-memory caching,
using memcached and database caching.

148. How a request is process in Django ?

When the user makes a request of your application, a WSGI handler is instantiated,
which:
 imports your settings.py file and Django’s exception classes.
 loads all the middleware classes it finds in the MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES or
MIDDLEWARES(depending on Django version) tuple located in settings.py
 builds four lists of methods which handle processing of request, view, response,
and exception.
 loops through the request methods, running them in order
 resolves the requested URL
 loops through each of the view processing methods
 calls the view function (usually rendering a template)
 processes any exception methods
 loops through each of the response methods, (from the inside out, reverse order
from request middlewares)
 finally builds a return value and calls the callback function to the web server

149. When to use iterator in Django ORM ?

The iterator is used when  processing results that take up a large amount of available
memory (lots of small objects or fewer large objects).

150. What are signals in Django ?

Signals allow certain senders to notify a set of receivers that some action has taken
place. They’re especially useful when many pieces of code may be interested in the
same events.

151. How to implement social login authentication in Django ?

Run the development server to make sure all is in order. The install python-social-auth
using the pip install command. Update settings.py to include/register the library in the
project  Update the database by  making migrations. Update the Project’s urlpatterns
in urls.py to include the main auth URLs. Create a new
app https://apps.twitter.com/app/new and make sure to use the callback
url http://127.0.0.1:8000/complete/twitter. In the project directory, add a config.py file
and grab the consumer key and consumer secret and add them to the config file. Finally
add urls to the config file to specify the login and redirect urls. Do a sanity check and
add friendly views.
152. Where to store static files in django ?
Static files are stored in the folder called static in the Django app.