Django provides tools for both authentication and authorization. Django view authorization is typically done with decorators. This course will show you how to use these view decorators to enforce authorized viewing of pages in your Django site. By the end of this course you’ll know how to: Use HttpRequest and HttpRequest.user objects Authenticate and authorize users Differentiate between regular, staff, and admin users Secure a view with the @login_required decorator Restrict a view to different roles with the @user_passes_test decorator […]

In a program of any complexity, you’ll create hundreds or thousands of names, each pointing to a specific object. How does Python keep track of all these names so that they don’t interfere with one another? This course covers Python namespaces, the structures used to organize the symbolic names assigned to objects in a Python program. In this course, you’ll learn: How Python organizes symbolic names and objects in namespaces When Python creates a new namespace How namespaces are implemented […]

As a developer, you may sometimes need to send complex object hierarchies over a network or save the internal state of your objects to a disk or database for later use. To accomplish this, you can use a process called serialization, which is fully supported by the standard library thanks to the Python pickle module. In this course, you’ll learn: What it means to serialize and deserialize an object Which modules you can use to serialize objects in Python Which […]

The Django framework comes with a powerful administrative tool called admin. You can use it out of the box to quickly add, delete, or edit any database model from a web interface. But with a little extra code, you can customize the Django admin to take your admin capabilities to the next level. In this course, you’ll learn how to: Add attribute columns in the model object list Link between model objects Add filters to the model object list Make […]