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This is true, but at the same time Django doesn't make it easy to mix up get and post params. Calling request.POST['param'] will raise an exception on a GET request.

Finding rails issues and then saying "they kinda sorta apply to Django" isn't as interesting as finding real Django issues.

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request.REQUEST? Admittedly, people don't use it that much, but it's definitely there.

Thanks for this information! Really, it is $_REQUEST as in PHP.

To yummyfajitas - your message is 50% trolling. Will you allow me to troll a little bit? I used django and scrapy few years ago and despite the fact it was better than PHP I would not even dare to compare it with Rails. Rails is that superior I don't even have words to explain it :D Conclusion: I'm not interested in Django and its bug because I love rails and wanna make it more secure anyways. Sorry, but Django is way less convinient to use. Security is another story though.

Sorry, I didn't intend to sound like I was trolling, my comment "I'm feeling very superior" was intended to be facetious.

Also, if you ever manage to put into words why you prefer Rails, I'd love to read it. Django and rails seem pretty similar to me, but I didn't put much effort into learning rails. But maybe I'm just experiencing the blub paradox.

So I don't think yummyfajitas was trolling, but he obviously likes Django. Like him, I like Django as well, but I happen to think that a healthy criticism of any popular framework is worthwhile. I think it's telling that AFAIK all more recent python frameworks bake in method dispatching to the url dispatcher.

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