An entire django app in a single file. Updated from here to use Django trunk.

Mini_django.py

An entire django app in a single file. Updated from here to use Django trunk.

pico

This started off to see what the absolutely smallest requirements needed to run a Django project. Run the pico_django.py with $ PYTHONPATH=. django-admin.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 --settings=pico_django and go to http://localhost:8080

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns

DEBUG=True
ROOT_URLCONF = 'pico_django'
DATABASES = { 'default': {} }
def index(request, name):
    return HttpResponse('Hello {name}!'.format(name=(name or 'World')))

urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^(?P<name>\w+)?$', index))

mini

Soon pico needed a little more spice, so it got some template loading and then because I'm lazy I made the new version directly runnable.

Run the mini_django.py with $ python ./micro_django.py and go to http://localhost:8000/Foo

import os, sys
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns
from django.template.response import TemplateResponse

# this module
me = os.path.splitext(os.path.split(__file__)[1])[0]
# helper function to locate this dir
here = lambda x: os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), x)

# SETTINGS
DEBUG=TEMPLATE_DEBUG=True
ROOT_URLCONF = me
DATABASES = { 'default': {} } #required regardless of actual usage
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (here('.'), )

# VIEW
def index(request, name):
    return TemplateResponse(request, 'index.html', {'name': name})

# URLS
urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^(?P<name>\w+)?$', index))

if __name__=='__main__':
    # set the ENV
    os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = me
    sys.path += (here('.'),)
    # run the development server
    from django.core import management
    management.call_command('runserver','0.0.0.0:8000' )

Dependencies

• python
• django

Install

1. Install django
2. get the code wget https://github.com/readevalprint/mini-django/raw/master/mini_django.py
3. run it $ python ./mini_django.py
4. open browser http://localhost.com/Foo

License

As-is. Public Domain. Don't blame me.

Author

Tim Watts (tim@readevalprint.com)