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1. Django - Exercise 1 - Create a basic Webpage

Create a basic Django powered webpage. The following are provided: 

• 1. Project - Exercise 1 
• 2. App - Webpoll 
• 3. Models - Question and Choice 
• 4. Migrated models 

Do the following: 

1. In views.py, define a `home` function that accepts a `request` and returns an HttpResponse with the text "Welcome to webpoll home!" 

2. In webpoll/urls.py: Import views Create a `urlpatterns`variable. Add a URL with route '' to `views.home` named name='home'. 3. In exercise1/urls.py: 

3. In exercise1/urls.py: 

Import `include` from `django.urls`. 

Create a urlpatterns variable. 

Add a path to set the home URL as 'webpoll/'. 

Call the `webpoll.urls` using the include function. 

Note: To run migrations again, use the in-built command line option by clicking "New Terminal" (">_"), or by clicking "File" -> "New Terminal". 

In the IDE, do the following: 

1. Click RUN -> INSTALL (to install the necessary packages). 

2. Click RUN -> RUN SERVER (to launch Jupyter notebook). 

3. Click Preview App. 

4. Click RUN -> Tests (to test the application). Note: To check the functioning of the web page, use: /webpoll 

Note: To check the functioning of the web page, use: <preview app url>/webpoll

5. Click Submit Code and Continue (to submit the exercise). 

Answer:

webpoll/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import url

from . import views

urlpatterns=[

    # URL pattern to home page

    url(r'', views.home, name="home"),

    ]

webpoll/views.py

from django.http import HttpResponse

def home(request):

    #Write code implementation here

    return HttpResponse("Welcome to webpoll home!")

exercise1/urls.py

"""exercise1 URL Configuration

The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:

    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/urls/

Examples:

Function views

    1. Add an import:  from my_app import views

    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', views.home, name='home')

Class-based views

    1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home

    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', Home.as_view(), name='home')

Including another URLconf

    1. Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path

    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))

"""

from django.contrib import admin

from django.conf.urls import url,include

urlpatterns = [

    # URL pattern to include webpoll/urls

    url(r'^webpoll/', include('webpoll.urls')),

    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),

]

Click on the image to see tests: