09.22.06
I <3 Django
After about 60 hours over the past six weeks or so, I finally had some base objects, and had gotten enough understanding of python that I felt I could be productive, although I still had to look at the docs a lot.
But the game still wasn’t doing anything useful! I was frustrated.
So, in spite of the fact that I told myself I wasn’t going to use a web framework, I decided to try out Django.
Holy cow, it is nice.
In less than four hours (over two days), I completely replaced all the work I had done previously, as well as got an admin web area, and templates that were presenting data to the end user. Very, very nice.
The docs at one point say, in the introduction/overview:
Take a few minutes to marvel at all the code you didn’t have to write.
And they’re right. I didn’t have to write a lot of code, and I did marvel.
I’m still reading the django docs, but I’m *way* far ahead of where I was. And Django is *nice* — good api, well-documented, active community. I’m impressed!
