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Learn Django: Build a netflix clone

Horace FAYOMI on February 27, 2022

Hello, welcome to the first part of this tutorial-course in which you'll learn and understand the basics of Django by building a clone of the pop...

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El_Taller • May 1 '22

Hello everybody, I'm a bit stack here.

Django Shell: play with our data
To quickly test our models and the manager, Django provides a very useful tool called Django Shell.

Open a terminal on VSCode (by default it will be opened ad the root of the project).
----------C:\shared\netflix_django\django_netflix_clone>
---------- I can open a terminal on VSCode but when I Run -------
Run: python man shell. A new command prompt will be shown.
---------- I've got the error:
C:\shared\netflix_django\django_netflix_clone>python man shell

python: can't open file 'C:\shared\netflix_django\django_netflix_clone\man': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Also, I don't understand this line........
Import our Movie models: from netflix.models import Movie

any help, explain, 💩💩

Horace FAYOMI • May 8 '22 • Edited

Also the line:
from netflix.models import Movie is a module importation. It's more a python stuff here. We have a class called Movie inside the file models.
Remember that to be able to use a function or class that is not available in a given file, you should import that function or class from it source inside the file that should use it.
Let take a simple exemple, guess you have this architechure:

- root |--- file1.py |--- file2.py

And file1.py contains this:

# inside file1.py def util_function(value): """Here is an utils function.""" print(value) # Do usefull stuff with the value...  class UtilClass: """Here is a util class.""" def __init__(self, name): pass

and then you want to use the util_function of the UtilClass inside file2.py,
you can import them like this:

# inside file2.py from .file1 import util_function, UtilClass # we can use them util_function(56) utlil_class = UtilClass()

I fyou got that, you should also know that, as we need to import a class or function or module in order to use it in another file, we should import them into django shell too. That why we need to import Movie model if we want to test it into django shell. And becasue the django shell root folder is the project root folder django_netflix_clone, which contains all our app folders modules (netflix included), and also because Movie is inside the path django_netflix_clone/netflix/models.py to import it we do from netflix/models import Movie.
Hope that help you.

Horace FAYOMI • May 8 '22

Hello Taller. That might happen because you're on windows instead of linux.
Let me test it on windows and give you a feedback soon.

Yvan KOA BILOA • Dec 30 '22

When you do the python command manage.py makemigrations for the Django migrations topic, you get two categories:

Create Model Movie
Create Model Category I don't get this. I only get init.py. What is the problem for me?

But also in Media, you have two sub-files that appear movies and preview_images. I don't get those categories either. Can you also explain to me where my problem might be?

Horace FAYOMI • Dec 31 '22

Hey Yvan, it's not normal indeed. Are you sure you've added the models code into your models.py file.

Yvan KOA BILOA • Jan 3 '23

yes, I added the models code in my models.py file but it didn't work. And I can't go further when I try to replicate your model for the database. Could you help me please ?

Horace FAYOMI • Jan 3 '23 • Edited

Yes, you could either:
1- push the current state of your code on github and send me the link so I'll pull and debug for you
Or
2- we could schedule a live pair programming debugging session
Which one works best for you ?

Anyways, here is my github email: fayomihorace@gmail.com

Ans if you go for the pair programming, write me to this email folahanfayomi@gmail.com.

Horace FAYOMI • Dec 31 '22

For the two sub-files in media folder don't worry, it's not required at this step of the tutorial even though it is in the final source code.

Yvan KOA BILOA • Jan 3 '23

Thank you

El_Taller • Jul 19 '22

Hello all,
I setup the virtual environment so I've got the folder estructure. I'm using VScode.
I set up the virtual environment on my xampp server.
everything was working, folders and files structure.
I stopped before to do the migrations.
but when I disconnected the ftp from the server and open the project again some of the files had disappeared.
there is only two folders and two files:
django_netflix_clone
django_netflix_clone/
settings.py
netflix/
models.py
requirements.txt

can anybody tell me why?

thanks

Horace FAYOMI • Aug 5 '22

Are you sure you saved the files before you deconnected from FTP ?
Do you have auto save enabled on VScode ?

El_Taller • May 13 '23

Hello,
What is the way to put this app on a server.
Let's say....
Www.clone.xx
Which is my local server
Thanks

El_Taller • Aug 6 '22

Hello Orace,
Well, yes, I do have auto save enabled on my VScode, and yes I always check if everything has been saved on my server via FTP.
Any other ideas?
Thx

Horace FAYOMI • Aug 14 '22

Hum, I used to work with git, never worked directly with a remote server.
Currently I have no cluefor you.
But I recommends you to not work directly on the server, work locally on git, and progressivlely commit your changes to git and pull the working branch on your sever.