id summary reporter owner description type status component version severity resolution keywords cc stage has_patch needs_docs needs_tests needs_better_patch easy ui_ux 13738 """Writing Views"" doesn't help much if you want in-depth info on writing views" JonathanHayward nobody "http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/views/ as it exists now might more appropriately be called ""Assigning error views"" or something similar. What it does not give is any particular detail about how to write an interesting view for a normal, i.e. 200 case. The views take a request object but do not demonstrate how to read CGI form variables from the request, and I would expect there's a lot more that can and should be said about writing views for a normal status 200 response than is said. I don't know if the expanded documentation should be in this page or another, but any page labelled ""Writing Views"" page should be a detailed page covering most of the bases for how one writes a view for a normal (200) response, and workhorses like retrieving submitted CGI variables. It might also include what the present page does, but right now the ""Writing Views"" page isn't doing what a page with that name should do. Jonathan, http://JonathansCorner.com/" closed Documentation 1.2 wontfix Enhancement Unreviewed 0 0 0 0 0 0