For deployment, Django’s engineers recommend one of the more robust Web servers — Apache, for example, though any Web server that supports either WSGI or FastCGI is suitable.

For example, Django can create an “administration” Web site automatically, saving developers days to weeks of mundane development, Holovaty said.

The example projects in the second half the book revolve around three common areas for Python: video games (PyGame), data visualizations (Matplotlib and Plotly), and web applications (Django).