Development with Python

Figure 15-1. It works! It works! Mwahahahaha.

That’s pretty much it! Along the way, I had to fight pretty hard, including debugging

Ajax requests by hand in the Firefox console (see

, catching infinite page-

refresh loops, stumbling over several missing attributes on my custom user model (be‐

cause I didn’t read the docs properly), and even one point switching to the dev version

of Django to overcome a bug, which thankfully turned out to be irrelevant.

Exploratory Coding, aka “Spiking”

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