According to the Django Book, Django follows the MVC pattern closely enough to be called an MVC framework. Django has been referred to as an MTV framework because the controller is handled by the framework itself and most of the excitement happens in models, templates and views.
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You’ve effectively got a 3 layer architecture whether you use Django’s ORM or SQLAlchemy, though your forgo some of the Django’s benefits if you choose the latter.
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