MVC pattern in django

Question

This issue has been tormenting me for a while already. I\'ve read about this topic but nothing seems to clear my thoughts. I understand that they call the views templates, a

Answer 1

The views.py defines the view functions for your app and your app groups related functions together.

However what I believe you're missing here is the urls.py. The urls file is the first part of the controller.

The URL patterns inside urls.py dictates what you're allowed to pass in to the view function or view class (depending on what approach you took, either with function based views or class based views) and then routes it to the proper view function.

So there's tight a coupling between the views.py and the urls.py, that makes up for the entire Controller part of MVC.

Comparing it to Rails, would be that the urls.py is a routes.rb and the actual controller class is the views.py function/cbv.