1. What is Django? 🐍

• Django is a high-level Python web framework that makes it easier to build web applications quickly and efficiently.

2. Explain MVC and how it relates to Django. 🏗️

• MVC stands for Model-View-Controller. In Django, it's implemented as Model-View-Template (MVT).
• Model represents the data, View handles the presentation, and Template defines the HTML structure.

3. What is a Django project? 📁

• A Django project is a collection of settings, configurations, and apps that make up a web application.

4. How do you create a new Django project? 🚀

• Use the command django-admin startproject projectname.

5. What is a Django app? 📦

• A Django app is a self-contained module that performs a specific function within a project.

6. How do you create a new Django app? 📦

• Use the command python manage.py startapp appname.

7. What is a Django URL pattern? 🔗

• URL patterns define how URLs map to views in Django.

8. How do you define a URL pattern in Django? 🌐

• By using the url() function in urls.py.

from django.urls import path
from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    path('example/', views.example_view, name='example'),
]

9. What is a Django view? 👀

• A view is a Python function that processes a web request and returns a response.

10. How do you create a view in Django? 📝 - Define a function in views.py.

from django.http import HttpResponse

def example_view(request):
    return HttpResponse("Hello, Django!")

11. Explain Django ORM. 🗃️ - Django's Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) allows you to work with the database using Python objects.

12. How do you define a model in Django? 🧱 - Define a Python class that inherits from models.Model.

from django.db import models

class Product(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    price = models.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)

13. What is a migration in Django? 🧳 - A migration is a script that manages changes to the database schema.

14. How do you create and apply migrations? 🧰 - Use python manage.py makemigrations to create migrations. - Use python manage.py migrate to apply migrations.

15. Explain Django admin. 🛡️ - Django admin is an automatic admin interface generated based on your models.

16. How do you register a model with the Django admin? 📋 - Define an admin class in admin.py and use admin.site.register().

from django.contrib import admin
from .models import Product

@admin.register(Product)
class ProductAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('name', 'price')

17. What is a Django template? 📄 - A template is an HTML file with placeholders for dynamic content.

18. How do you render a template in Django? 🎨 - Use render() function in views.

from django.shortcuts import render

def example_view(request):
    return render(request, 'example.html', {'name': 'Django'})

19. Explain Django forms. 📝 - Django forms help in creating and handling HTML forms in a Pythonic way.

20. How do you create a form in Django? 📝 - Define a form class that inherits from forms.Form or forms.ModelForm.

from django import forms

class ProductForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Product
        fields = ['name', 'price']

21. What is Django Middleware? 🍪

• Middleware is a way to process requests and responses globally before they reach views or after they leave views.

22. Give an example of Django Middleware. 🍪

• django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware helps secure your application by setting security-related HTTP headers.

23. Explain Django authentication. 🔑

• Django provides built-in authentication to manage user accounts and permissions.

24. How do you create a user in Django? 🔑

• Use User.objects.create_user() or the built-in registration views.

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

user = User.objects.create_user(username='user1', password='password')

25. What is Django REST framework? 🌐

• Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs.

26. How do you create a Django REST framework serializer? 🧵

• Define a serializer class that inherits from serializers.Serializer.

from rest_framework import serializers

class ProductSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    name = serializers.CharField(max_length=100)
    price = serializers.DecimalField(max_digits=5, decimal_places=2)

27. What is a Django queryset? 🧩

• A queryset is a database query expressed in Python.

28. How do you filter data using a queryset? 🔍

• Use the filter() method.

products = Product.objects.filter(price__gte=10)

29. Explain Django migrations. 🧳

• Migrations allow you to evolve your database schema over time.

30. How do you create a superuser in Django? 🦸

• Use python manage.py createsuperuser command.

31. What is Django's ORM Lazy Loading? 🐢

• Lazy loading loads related objects only when they are accessed.

32. How do you add a foreign key relationship in a Django model? 🧱

• Use models.ForeignKey.

from django.db import models

class Order(models.Model):
    product = models.ForeignKey(Product, on_delete=models.CASCADE)

33. What is Django's session framework? 🕒

• Sessions allow you to store user data across requests.

34. Explain Django's CSRF protection. 🛡️

• Cross-Site Request Forgery protection prevents malicious form submissions.

35. How do you use Django's built-in caching system? 🚀

• Configure caching in settings and use the cache module.

from django.core.cache import cache

# To set a value
cache.set('my_key', 'my_value', 600)

# To get a value
value = cache.get('my_key')

36. What are Django signals? 📡

• Signals allow certain senders to notify a set of receivers that some action has taken place.

37. Explain Django's static files handling. 📂

• Django provides tools for managing static files like CSS, JS, and images.

38. How do you serve static files in development? 🌐

• Use django.contrib.staticfiles app and {% load static %} template tag.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'style.css' %}">

39. What is Django's middleware for authentication? 🔒

• AuthenticationMiddleware adds the user attribute to request objects.

40. How do you create a custom user model in Django? 🔑

• Create a model that inherits from AbstractBaseUser and PermissionsMixin.

from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractBaseUser, BaseUserManager, PermissionsMixin

class CustomUserManager(BaseUserManager):
    # ...

class CustomUser(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    # ...

41. What is Django's middleware for CSRF protection? 🛡️

• CsrfViewMiddleware adds CSRF protection to your forms.

42. Explain Django's request and response objects. 📥📤

• HttpRequest represents incoming HTTP requests.
• HttpResponse represents outgoing HTTP responses.

43. How do you create a JSON response in Django? 📦

• Use JsonResponse from django.http.

from django.http import JsonResponse

data = {'message': 'Hello, JSON!'}
return JsonResponse(data)

44. What is Django's template inheritance? 🧬

• Template inheritance allows you to create a base template and extend it in child templates.

45. Give an example of template inheritance in Django. 🧬

• Create a base template (e.g., base.html) with common structure.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>{% block title %}My Site{% endblock %}</title>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="content">
        {% block content %}{% endblock %}
    </div>
</body>
</html>

• Create a child template (e.g., child.html) that extends the base template.

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %}My Page{% endblock %}

{% block content %}
    <h1>Welcome to My Page</h1>
{% endblock %}

46. What is Django's middleware for GZip compression? 📦

• GZipMiddleware compresses content for faster transmission.

47. Explain Django's file uploads handling. 📁

• Django provides the FileField and ImageField for handling file uploads.

48. How do you create a custom template tag in Django? 🏷️

• Define a Python function and register it using @register.simple_tag decorator.

from django.template import Library

register = Library()

@register.simple_tag
def current_time(format_string):
    return datetime.datetime.now().strftime(format_string)

49. What is Django's authentication backend? 🔑

• Authentication backends allow custom authentication methods.

50. Explain Django's testing framework. 🧪

• Django provides a test runner and various testing tools for writing and running tests.

51. How do you write a unit test in Django? 🧪

• Create a test class that inherits from django.test.TestCase.

from django.test import TestCase

class MyTestCase(TestCase):
    def test_something(self):
        # Write your test code here

52. What is Django's @login_required decorator? 🔒

• @login_required decorator ensures that only authenticated users can access a view.

from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required

@login_required
def secure_view(request):
    return HttpResponse("This view is secure!")

53. What is Django's context processors? 🧳

• Context processors add data to the template context for every request.

54. How do you create a custom context processor in Django? 🎁

• Define a Python function and add it to the context_processors list in settings.

def custom_context(request):
    return {'custom_data': 'Hello, context!'}

55. Explain Django's Class-Based Views (CBVs). 📚

• CBVs are views defined as classes, providing reusable components for views.

56. Give an example of a Django Class-Based View. 📚

• Create a view class that inherits from a built-in CBV.

from django.views.generic import ListView
from .models import Product

class ProductListView(ListView):
    model = Product
    template_name = 'product_list.html'
    context_object_name = 'products'

57. What is Django's reverse URL resolution? ↩️

• Reverse URL resolution allows you to generate URLs for views based on their names.

58. How do you reverse a URL in Django? ↩️

• Use the reverse() function.

from django.urls import reverse

url = reverse('example')

59. Explain Django's request/response middleware. 🍪

• Request and response middleware process incoming and outgoing data for each request/response.

60. What is Django's get_object_or_404 shortcut? 🕵️

• get_object_or_404() fetches an object from the database or raises a 404 error if it doesn't exist.

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404

product = get_object_or_404(Product, pk=1)

61. What is Django's Q object for queries? 🧩

• The Q object allows you to perform complex queries using logical operators.

from django.db.models import Q

result = Product.objects.filter(Q(price__lte=10) | Q(name__icontains='cheap'))

62. Explain Django's database transactions. 💼

• Database transactions ensure the integrity of data by making a series of database operations atomic.

63. How do you use transactions in Django? 💼

• Use the transaction.atomic() decorator or with statement.

from django.db import transaction

@transaction.atomic
def my_view(request):
    # Database operations here

64. What is Django's get() method for querysets? 🔍

• The get() method retrieves a single object from the database that matches the query.

product = Product.objects.get(name='Example Product')

65. What is Django's annotate() method for querysets? 🔍

• The annotate() method adds aggregated values to queryset objects.

from django.db.models import Count

categories = Category.objects.annotate(product_count=Count('product'))

66. Explain Django's CSRF token. 🛡️

• A CSRF token is a unique token that prevents Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.

67. How do you include a CSRF token in a Django form? 🛡️

• Use {% csrf_token %} template tag.

<form method="POST">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <!-- Form fields here -->
</form>

68. What is Django's middleware for authentication? 🔑

• AuthenticationMiddleware adds the user attribute to request objects.

69. How do you include external CSS and JavaScript files in Django templates? 📦

• Use the static template tag.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% static 'style.css' %}">
<script src="{% static 'script.js' %}"></script>

70. Explain Django's database routing. 🗺️

• Database routing allows you to specify which database a model should use.

71. How do you use database routing in Django? 🗺️

• Define a custom database router class and specify it in settings.

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72. What is Django's prefetch_related() method for querysets? 🔍**

• prefetch_related() retrieves related objects efficiently to reduce database queries.

73. How do you create a custom template filter in Django? 🧹

• Define a Python function and register it using @register.filter.

from django.template import Library

register = Library()

@register.filter
def my_filter(value):
    # Filter logic here

74. Explain Django's middleware for language translation. 🌐

• LocaleMiddleware handles language selection and translation.

75. How do you set up internationalization (i18n) in Django? 🌍

• Configure LOCALE_PATHS and use {% trans %} template tags for translation.

# settings.py
LOCALE_PATHS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'locale'),
]

# template.html
{% load i18n %}
<p>{% trans "Hello, World!" %}</p>

76. What is Django's select_related() method for querysets? 🔍

• select_related() retrieves related objects using SQL joins to optimize database queries.

77. How do you use Django's messages framework for notifications? 💌

• Use messages.add_message() to add messages and {% messages %} template tag to display them.

from django.contrib import messages

messages.add_message(request, messages.SUCCESS, 'Success message.')

78. Explain Django's middleware for content type negotiation. 📃

• ContentNegotiationMiddleware handles content negotiation based on request headers.

79. What is Django's cache framework for caching? 🚀

• Django provides a simple API for caching.

80. How do you cache data in Django? 🚀

• Use the cache module.

from django.core.cache import cache

# To set a value
cache.set('my_key', 'my_value', 600)

# To get a value
value = cache.get('my_key')

81. Explain Django's database indexes. 📈

• Indexes are database structures that improve query performance.

82. How do you create an index on a Django model field? 📈

• Use the db_index attribute in the model field.

class Product(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, db_index=True)

83. What is Django's values() method for querysets? 🔍

• values() retrieves a dictionary of field values for each object in the queryset.

products = Product.objects.values('name', 'price')

84. Explain Django's middleware for security headers. 🛡️

• SecurityMiddleware adds security-related HTTP headers to responses.

85. How do you send email in Django? 📧

• Configure email settings and use send_mail() from django.core.mail.

from django.core.mail import send_mail

send_mail('Subject', 'Message', 'from@example.com', ['to@example.com'], fail_silently=False)

86. What is Django's exclude() method for querysets? 🔍

• exclude() filters out objects that match the query.

products = Product.objects.exclude(price__gte=10)

87. Explain Django's middleware for X-Content-Type-Options. 📦

• XContentMiddleware adds the X-Content-Type-Options header to responses.

88. What is Django's values_list() method for querysets? 🔍

• values_list() retrieves a list of field values for each object in the queryset.

names = Product.objects.values_list('name', flat=True)

89. How do you customize Django admin? 🛡️

• Create custom admin classes for models and use the admin.site.register() method.

90. What is Django's exists() method for querysets? 🔍

• exists() checks if the queryset contains any results.

if Product.objects.filter(name='Example Product').exists():
    # Product exists

91. Explain Django's middleware for XSS protection. 🛡️

• XssProtectionMiddleware adds the X-XSS-Protection header to responses.

92. How do you paginate a queryset in Django? 📜

• Use the Paginator class to paginate a queryset.

from django.core.paginator import Paginator

paginator = Paginator(queryset, per_page)

93. What is Django's values() method for querysets? 🔍

• values() retrieves a dictionary of field values for each object in the queryset.

data = Product.objects.values('name', 'price')

94. How do you handle form validation in Django? 📝

• Use Django's form classes, and check is_valid() method.

if form.is_valid():
    # Process form data

95. What is Django's annotate() method for querysets? 🔍

• annotate() adds aggregated values to queryset objects.

from django.db.models import Count

categories = Category.objects.annotate(product_count=Count('product'))

96. Explain Django's middleware for clickjacking protection. 🛡️

• XFrameOptionsMiddleware adds the X-Frame-Options header to responses.

97. How do you handle database transactions in Django? 💼

• Use the transaction.atomic() decorator or with statement.

from django.db import transaction

@transaction.atomic
def my_view(request):
    # Database operations here

98. What is Django's get_or_create() method for querysets? 🔍

• get_or_create() gets an object or creates it if it doesn't exist.

obj, created = Product.objects.get_or_create(name='Example Product', price=20)

99. How do you use Django's values_list() method for querysets? 🔍

• values_list() retrieves a list of field values for each object in the queryset.

names = Product.objects.values_list('name', flat=True)

100. Explain Django's middleware for HSTS. 🛡️ - StrictTransportSecurityMiddleware adds the Strict-Transport-Security header to responses.

101. What is Django's only() method for querysets? 🔍 - only() retrieves a limited set of fields for each object in the queryset.

fields = Product.objects.only('name', 'price')

These additional Django interview questions should help you prepare for your interview. 😊🎓

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Django Official Documentation:

• Django's official documentation is an excellent place to start. It provides comprehensive information and examples for developers of all levels.
• Documentation Link: Django Official Documentation

Django Downloads:

• You can download Django from the official website or use pip to install it.
• Official Download Page: Django Download

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