In this chapter we've covered several different facets of manipulating data from our Django application. This included:

We've seen that it is very easy to work with data from our Django application, convert it to new formats, transmit it across the wire, and display it in powerful ways. As Django is written in Python the ecosystem of tools becomes very liberating here. In addition to ReportLab, there are a dozen other graphical report and charting tools available in Python. We could have written an entire chapter on any one of them. This continues to demonstrate the advantages of Django as a web-framework.