From b777c81618c8344066af3cab05d524e862468463 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Sargent Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025 08:16:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added link on phone, needs reformatting. - online edit of handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html --- handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html b/handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html index 11844861e..9ad7ebe63 100644 --- a/handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html +++ b/handbook/troggle/trogdjango.html @@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ and also much more about the manipulation of QuerySets:

Some of the more bizarre data model structures are probably fossils from Django v0.6, e.g. the separate classes that join Entrances to Caves. We haven't got to the bottom of all these yet.

Django Forms

-

TLDR: Just don't. Django has several generations of quite different clever mechanisms to make creating HTML forms "easier". Yes, making them might be easier, but maintaining this opinionated stuff is a nightmare. Really don't. +

TLDR: Just don't. + https://www.loopwerk.io/articles/2025/django-views/?utm_source=www.pythonweekly.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=python-weekly-issue-712-september-4-2025&_bhlid=6ece59f0c3de24278c50871556723844d8ab734a + Django has several generations of quite different clever mechanisms to make creating HTML forms "easier". Yes, making them might be easier, but maintaining this opinionated stuff is a nightmare. Really don't.

OK a form is broken or inadequate, so are you feeling confident? Are you adequately caffinated? Then a new adventure begins... Troggle and HTML forms.

Go on to: Troggle: updating Django