Django, a python web framework, consists of an objectrelational mapper orm, backend controller, and template system. On various django help forums, youll hear requests from newish django developers on how to use mongodb with django. Apr 26, 2017 mongodb has a native python driver, pymongo, and a team of driver engineers dedicated to making the driver fit to the python communitys needs. Okay then, lets get into the background of this post. Using the django admin app one can directly add and modify documents stored in mongodb.
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