Django 1.6

Hi all! Today let's explore Django's newest version. This won't be in incredible detail, however. The post would be too long. We'll just see an overview. Even as we speak the developers are working on versions 1.7 and 1.8

Let's start at the top.

	Django 1.3	Django 1.6
Project directory structure	The structure is the same as we explored earlier. Once you open the project directory, you can see the list of apps, __init__.py, manage.py, settings.py, and urls.py.	The structure here is slightly different. Once you open the project directory, there is another folder with the same name as your project. The manage.py is here too. Inside the other directory are all the apps and settings etc. While this provides a certain level of independence and atomicity, I personally am disappointed with this. I liked the older one better, and the new one takes some getting used to.
Settings	The settings file contains all settings imaginable, with the ability to add your own.	The default settings file shipped with 1.6 is spartan and contains only those settings that an app absolutely needs to run. Rest all need to be added, e.g. TEMPLATE_DIRS, STATIC_DIRS etc.
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface)	No additional wsgi file	Shipped with a default wsgi file (wsgi.py) to configure the interface.
Database configuration	The ENGINE field is supposed to hold the DBMS you use, like sqlite3, mysql etc.	The ENGINE field now has to include the full specification, i.e. django.db.backends.sqlite3, django.db.backends.mysql etc.

These are the changes I noticed and those that directly affect my coding style in Django. Feel free to comment ones that you've noticed. Until next time.