Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Developed by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Documentation for the entire framework can be found on the Django website.

Django is available open-source under the ​BSD license.

Being a Python Web framework, Django requires Python.