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Django also calls the functions/classes where you define the logic of selecting the models to operate on, validate, pick output, etc… a 'view'. The template where you map the data to html is just that: a template. People coming to Django from Rails often get confused by that. In the end, it's very similar but with a different name.

I'm reminded of the old Microsoft Foundation Classes with their Document-Object model that lacked a controller. Their promise was that you could reuse views and documents but in practice the lack of a controller to handle user input meant you never could. At least, I never could.