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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