Django Views
Views
Django views are Python functions that take http requests and return http response, like HTML documents.
A web page that uses Django is full of views with different tasks and missions.
Views are usually put in a file called views.py located on your app's folder.
There is a views.py in your members folder that looks like this:
my_tennis_club/members/views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
# Create your views here.Find it and open it, and replace the content with this:
my_tennis_club/members/views.py:
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse
def members(request):
return HttpResponse("Hello world!")Note: The name of the view does not have to be the same as the application.
I call it members because I think it fits well in this context.
This is a simple example of how to send a response back to the browser.
But how can we execute the view? Well, we must call the view via a URL.
You will learn about URLs in the next chapter Django URLs.
