Making a Deployment Package From a Git Repository

I have a Django application in a git repository, and the whole thing needs to be moved to a server. I want to copy the application, but I don't want to drag the git repository info along with it.

Python triple-quoted strings vs. raw strings

Python lets you include text as strings in a number of ways, but picking the right one is important. There are two specific types of strings that I get confused and occasionally need a little reference to sort out: triple-quoted strings and raw strings.