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months. START TRIAL NOW  Django’s Class Based Views  A guest
post by Garry Polley, a Python developer devoted to creating
remarkable apps for the healthcare industry, and the creator of
an online mathematics curriculum called GeckoMathematics.
Education is a thriving passion for Garry and it’s what he would
do if he were not a developer.  In the Django community there
has been a long running dispute since version 1.3 around class
based views. I plan to give some insight into how you should use
class based views. This is not an article aimed at function
based views vs class based views.  Why should I use class based
views?  Here are some reasons:  Over the course of working on
many projects we all tend to do some of the same repetitive
tasks. Hey, that’s one reason we all love to use Django. For
most applications the primary layers that change are the data,
and how that data is displayed on the client. In most of our
applications we just want to