ajax call not working when trying to send data to localhost:8000 from localhost

Because the port is not the same, it's considered a cross origin request. You must set a Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in the script you are requesting.

Learn more:

http://enable-cors.org/server.html

or, specifically for django:

http://chase-seibert.github.io/blog/2012/01/27/using-access-control-allow-origin-to-make-cross-domain-post-requests-from-javsacript.html