Update Django for VS Code Tutorial for Python 3.11 and Django 4.2

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Tutorial url: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/tutorial-django

Entire tutorial works for updated versions:
Python v2023.10.0
Pylance v2023.6.10
Python 3.11
pip 23.1.2
Django 4.2.2

• Create a project environment for the django tutorial section 5: Update screenshot for selecting an interpreter to include Python 3.11.
  

• Create a project environment for the django tutorial section 7: Update screenshot to Python 3.11
  

• Create the Django Project Section 3: Update the runserver console response to more recent date and time.

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June 13, 2023 - 18:38:07
Django version 4.2.2, using settings 'web_project.settings'
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• Create the Django Project Section 4: Update the screenshot from Django 3.1 to 4.2
  

• Create the debugger launch profile Section 3: The launch.json file is a little different than what is in the tutorial.

{
    // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
    // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
    // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Python: Django",
            "type": "python",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}\\manage.py",
            "args": [
                "runserver"
            ],
            "django": true,
            "justMyCode": true
        }
    ]
}

• Explore the debugger section 4 update the status bar image:
  

• Explore the debugger step 8 and 9: Update the strf time:

now.strftime("%A, %d %B, %Y at %X")
'Tuesday, 13 June, 2023 at 18:03:19'
now.strftime("%a, %d %b, %Y at %X")
'Tue, 13 Jun, 2023 at 18:03:19'
now.strftime("%a, %d %b, %y at %X")
'Tue, 13 Jun, 23 at 18:03:19'

• Explore the debugger step 10: Update Edge image:
  

• Explore the debugger in the tip we recommend print the URI in view, we could include that in the code print(request.build_absolute_uri()

• Use a template to render a page section 5: keep print URI in code snippet

def hello_there(request, name):
    print(request.build_absolute_uri())
    return render(
        request,
        'hello/hello_there.html',
        {
            'name': name,
            'date': datetime.now(),
        }
    )

Suggestion: In order to include admin.py and createsuperuser I would remove the form.py approach which isn't gone into detail much, and instead:

• create superuser
• check admin
• go to terminal from hello.models import LogMessage
• check all messages all_messages = LogMessage.objects.all() and perhaps test methods on query string like .all(), .last(), .create() eg. m = LogMessage.create(field1='result', field2='result') m.save() then check admin again.
• .filter() and view on your template.
• bonus points for if we can show off some type of UI in the template to inspect those variables.