I’ve put together and shared on gitHub all the files needed to get started with a Django project – essentially this is a clean file structure usable to get going with a Django project nice and easy. The idea is that after downloading this, you just have to change a couple of names (see the README file for more details) and there you go you have a complete Django project ready to be ran and customized.

The code is here: bitbucket.org/magicrebirth/django_bproject. Feel free to download or fork it as you like!

Currently the B_project is set up to work with Django 1.3 and it has a few ‘batteries’ included (= commonly used apps):

MPTT: Utilities for implementing a modified pre-order traversal tree in django

REGISTRATION: A user-registration application for Django.

DJANGO EXTENSIONS: global custom management extensions for the Django Framework.

PICKLEFIELD: an implementation of a pickled object field.

The other things included in the framework are:

a settings.py file that calls localized settings specifications depending on parameters (eg dev server or live one)

a bunch of generic python utilities

a few ‘enhanced’ model classes

all that is needed for working with trees in the admin (as discussed here: Django admin and MPTT)

a javascript autocomplete framework, integrated in the admin (as discussed here: Autocomplete in Django)

some basic templates and templatetags

Enjoy!