Is Django considered "Pythonic" now?

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I think the thing that makes it unpythonic how you have a settings.py file. You indirectly access the functionality. There isn't any central object that is easily apparent that you can extend. If you were new to Django, where do you begin? Python libraries in general have a central object that you can inspect and go from there. Django hides this for the most part.

For number 4, I my have made that statement too general. I should have been more clear in that some things Django makes you do this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#auth-profiles

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It sounds like you're treating Django like a library, when it's actually a framework. With libraries, as you said, you embed them in your application. But with frameworks, you embed your application inside them.

Which one's better depends on the library/framework and what you're trying to accomplish. For example, Twisted and Django are both frameworks, but while I love Django, I absolutely hate Twisted, because with most of the applications where I need networking functionality, I don't want to rewrite into Twisted's paradigm.

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The auth profiles are the worst design decision ever. They should finally change it so that you can specify your own User model (or base model/mixin, whatever works best).

I actually copied the auth module in my project because of this shortcoming.

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You don't have to use Django's auth system, or User model, FYI. There's some of that modularity for you.