Poll Project

This is going to be a different project: We will call it the Poll project

Creating a project¶

If this is your first time using Django, you’ll have to take care of some initial setup. Namely, you’ll need to auto-generate some code that establishes a Django project – a collection of settings for an instance of Django, including database configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific settings.

django-admin startproject mysite

This will create a mysite directory in your current directory

ASfter that we will run the server inmediatley

If we click the direction in blue  , this is what we will see.


Creating the Polls app¶

Now that your environment – a “project” – is set up, you’re set to start doing work.

Each application you write in Django consists of a Python package that follows a certain convention. Django comes with a utility that automatically generates the basic directory structure of an app, so you can focus on writing code rather than creating directories.

Write our first view¶

Let’s write the first view. Open the file polls/views.py and put the following Python code in it:

To call the view, we need to map it to a URL - and for this we need a URLconf.

To create a URLconf in the polls directory, create a file called urls.py. Your app directory should now look like:

In the polls/urls.py file include the following code:

from django.urls import path

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('', views.index, name='index'),

The next step is to point the root URLconf at the polls.urls module. In mysite/urls.py, add an import for django.urls.include and insert an include() in the urlpatterns list, so you have:

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import include, path

urlpatterns = [
    path('polls/', include('polls.urls')),
    path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
]