Django distinguish between get / post in view's methods

There's no need to create functions for each one, you can "ask" the request:

You can:

def login(request):    if request.method == 'POST':        # Your code for POST    else:        # Your code for GET    return render(request, 'login.html')

Or, you can assume GET as the default:

def login(request):    if request.method == 'POST':        # Your code for POST        # make sure to put a "return redirect" statement here    # Your code for GET    return render(request, 'login.html')

Both are okay. Also, take a look at Class-based Views as an alternative, they are very helpful.

As mentioned in the Django documentation, another approach would be to used class-based views.

Class-based views provide an alternative way to implement views as Python objects instead of functions. They do not replace function-based views, but have certain differences and advantages when compared to function-based views:

• Organization of code related to specific HTTP methods (GET, POST, etc) can be addressed by separate methods instead of conditional branching.
• Object oriented techniques such as mixins (multiple inheritance) can be used to factor code into reusable components.

So instead of using function-based view (as mentioned in other answers):

from django.shortcuts import renderdef login(request):    if request.method == 'POST':        # handle the post request     else:         # handle the get request     return render(request, 'login.html')

You could use a class-based view like so:

from django.shortcuts import renderfrom django.views.generic import Viewclass LoginView(View):    def post(self, request):        # handle the post request        return render(request, 'login.html')    def get(self, request):        # handle the get request        return render(request, 'template-path.html')

When using class-based views, your urls.py would look like this:

# urls.pyfrom django.conf.urls import urlfrom myapp.views import LoginViewurlpatterns = [    url(r'^login/', LoginView.as_view()),]