3.19 Serializing Django objects ........................................ 353
3.20 Django settings .............................................. 358
3.21 Signals .................................................. 362
3.22 Deprecated features ........................................... 365
4 “How-to” guides 375
4.1 Authenticating against Django’s user database from Apache ...................... 375
4.2 Authentication using REMOTE_USER .................................. 376
4.3 Writing custom django-admin commands ................................ 378
4.4 Writing custom model fields ....................................... 382
4.5 Custom template tags and filters ..................................... 392
4.6 Writing a custom storage system ..................................... 408
4.7 Deploying Django ............................................ 409
4.8 Error reporting .............................................. 426
4.9 Providing initial data for models ..................................... 430
4.10 Running Django on Jython ........................................ 432
4.11 Integrating Django with a legacy database ................................ 433
4.12 Outputting CSV with Django ...................................... 434
4.13 Outputting PDFs with Django ...................................... 436
4.14 Managing static files ........................................... 438
5 Django FAQ 447
5.1 FAQ: General ............................................... 447
5.2 FAQ: Installation ............................................. 450
5.3 FAQ: Using Django ........................................... 451
5.4 FAQ: Getting Help ............................................ 452
5.5 FAQ: Databases and models ....................................... 453
5.6 FAQ: The admin ............................................. 455
5.7 FAQ: Contributing code ......................................... 456
6 API Reference 459
6.1 Authentication backends ......................................... 459
6.2 Clickjacking Protection ......................................... 459
6.3 contrib packages ........................................... 461
6.4 Databases ................................................. 692
6.5 django-admin.py and manage.py ..................................... 702
6.6 Running management commands from your code ............................ 722
6.7 Django Exceptions ............................................ 722
6.8 File handling ............................................... 724
6.9 Forms ................................................... 728
6.10 Class-based generic views ........................................ 768
6.11 Middleware ................................................ 786
6.12 Models .................................................. 788
6.13 Request and response objects ...................................... 846
6.14 TemplateResponse and SimpleTemplateResponse ............................ 856
6.15 Settings .................................................. 860
6.16 Signals .................................................. 889
6.17 Templates ................................................. 895
6.18 Unicode data ............................................... 940
6.19 Django Utils ............................................... 945
6.20 Validators ................................................. 954
6.21 Deprecated features ........................................... 956
7 Meta-documentation and miscellany 973
7.1 API stability ............................................... 973
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