Django News - Google Summer of Code 2026 with Django - Feb 27th 2026

A practical step-by-step guide to using Django ORM in standalone mode to connect to and query an existing database using inspectdb.

A practical, production-ready guide to using tox to test your reusable Django app across multiple Python and Django versions, complete with packaging, minimal test settings, and a full version matrix.

Jeff shares how he uses django-simple-nav to define navigation once in Python and reuse it across dashboards and even a lightweight HTMX-powered command palette.

Django’s FileField and ImageField are good at storing files, but on their own they don’t let us control access. When …

In case you didn't hear, PEP 810 got accepted which means Python 3.15 is going to support lazy imports! One of the selling points of lazy imports is with code that has a CLI so that you only import code as necessary, making the app a bit more snappy