Despite their differences, both Django and Rails use an approach that is best known as MVC (model, view, controller) developed in the Smalltalk community but adopted by many other languages and ...

Nevertheless, Django engineers refer to the framework’s architecture as being “MTV” — model, template, view — as a way of separating the different concerns of the package.

In my last article, I continued looking at the Django Web framework, showing how you can create and modify models. As you saw, Django expects you to describe your models using Python code. The model ...