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Python Django Basics What a View! What Are URLs?

Posted by shreyas bukkawar
shreyas bukkawar
214 Points

Problem in Program

He passed request as an parameter for hello_world function but we did't send.

Ikuyasu Usui
Ikuyasu Usui
36 Points

Yes, Kenneth isn't using the request object because this hello_world() is intentionally the simplest view function.

1 Answer

Haydar Al-Rikabi
Haydar Al-Rikabi
5,971 Points
Haydar Al-Rikabi
Haydar Al-Rikabi
5,971 Points

I will try to explain this in plain English for simplicity reason.

The "request" argument means that your view's function can handle a bunch of information passed in a request. The request with its associated info come from the user's browser to the web server, all the way to your view's function in Django.

In the video, Kenneth hasn't used the information that came in the request. He's just wanted to show the different elements associated with a view's function.

This is a list of all the info that comes with a url request. These info are called "Http Request Header Fields": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Request_fields