Re: how to scale (was: how to do something at startup)

2007-10-03 Thread Udi
Check out: http://ant.apache.org/ These types of deployment & initialization tasks should be handled by the surrounding environment, not Django itself. I suggest you use ant or something similar to set up some scripts for yourself that coordinate everything. --~--~-~--~~--

Freelance Django Developers

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Ostrovsky
Hello Django Developers, We're looking for Django developers to work on various web applications. You can be located anywhere in the world, but your English has to be very strong. You should be familiar with the following: - source control (svn) - unit testing with Django - AJAX - and of course,

Re: python script

2007-10-03 Thread Don Arbow
On Oct 3, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Xan wrote: > > In http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5534 there is a howto for > doing that. > But it's only when the script is in the root project directory. > What happens if we want the script in other location? What line we > have to add? > > Thanks a lot, > Xan.

QuerySet.extra() and bind variables

2007-10-03 Thread tzeskimo
I'm trying to write a custom QuerySet, but I'm a bit confused about how to properly use the method extra(). From my understanding, extra() accepts both "select" and "where" arguments, both of which can contain bind variables. You then pass the appropriate bind variable values to the "param" argu

Re: how to scale

2007-10-03 Thread Andreas Ahlenstorf
Am 03.10.2007 um 12:36 schrieb Andrey Khavryuchenko: > I know about MySQL Cluster. The obvious disadvantage is that the > whole > database should be in main memory. Kiss goodbye to a bunch of cheap > servers sitting close to actual users. > > There are also replication tweaks like multi-mast

Re: Does setting a session cause a redirect?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Hudson
After the few responses here and Malcolm telling me I was on drugs (grin) I dug deeper and found the problem... On my list result page I had a model method returning an empty string for a URL to a related image which resulted in the following HTML: That cause an extra GET request to the sa

Re: Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Dahl
I have used both mochikit and yahoo YUI for this, both of them work well. JQuery show a great deal of promise as well although I have never used it. -richard On 10/3/07, Emmchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > @ Hraban - Thank you for your reply. > > Yes, I want to display up to four columns. The

Re: Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-10-03 um 20:52 schrieb Emmchen: > Is it possible to use two or more forms at the same time? And is it > possible to desplay the selected values from one form while the next > form doesn't have a selected value yet. How does this work with > request/response? > > My experience with JavaScr

Re: IOError from HttpResponse(somefile) -- via S3 storage

2007-10-03 Thread Marty Alchin
On 10/3/07, fdraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I'm keeping uploaded files in an S3 bucket. For private documents, > their S3 permissions are set to private. So my plan has been that > Django will check if a user is authenticated, and if so, pull the > document from S3 and send it to the client

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread James Bennett
On 10/3/07, staff-gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my question was how do I do ORM in a view ?? Where is "choice_set" > coming from ?? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#backward -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~

Re: Custom View for a file upload

2007-10-03 Thread jacoberg2
the thing is that i am trying to update this site for a previous developer and he created a base template that extends to all the pages in the site, so i assume that he used those functions and when clicking around the site and seeing his other views, all he did was put at login required, and when

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Brand
Chris Brand wrote: > staff-gmail wrote: >> Where is "choice_set" coming from ?? > That one's easy - > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#backward > > Chris > Oh, and the explanation for it's use in a template is at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#variables

Re: Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Emmchen
@ Hraban - Thank you for your reply. Yes, I want to display up to four columns. The content of one column depend on the selection in the previous column (exept for the first one). Column 1: Display a list of choices - (eg Systematic, Collection, Growthplace, Heritage). Column 2: Display a filter

Re: Custom View for a file upload

2007-10-03 Thread fdraft
"when i connect to the pages that should handle the upload, the person is no longer logged in" If that's true, then the problem isn't with this bulk_reg() function - presumably it isn't running if you aren't logged in, right? Are you using the suggested methods for loggin a user in ( http://www.d

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Brand
staff-gmail wrote: > Where is "choice_set" coming from ?? That one's easy - http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#backward Chris --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 12:40 -0600, staff-gmail wrote: > So my question was how do I do ORM in a view ?? See [1] where it explains how dotted references are mapped back to Python objects. > Where is "choice_set" > coming from ?? Based on the name and the examples shown, it's related to the one

Custom View for a file upload

2007-10-03 Thread jacoberg2
Hey, I've posted a few times about saving files through the admin and all the problems its caused, but i figured out that the save method i tried to write was screwing it all up by not completing due to the error in opening the file. But since this is occuring it still is screwing up what i wen

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread staff-gmail
So my question was how do I do ORM in a view ?? Where is "choice_set" coming from ?? I'm just looking for some very practical answers so I can get something working - and if I'm a fairly bright guy and can't figure it out, obviously there's some improvement required - and maybe I will contr

IOError from HttpResponse(somefile) -- via S3 storage

2007-10-03 Thread fdraft
So I'm keeping uploaded files in an S3 bucket. For private documents, their S3 permissions are set to private. So my plan has been that Django will check if a user is authenticated, and if so, pull the document from S3 and send it to the client. I'm using the boto S3 library to do the actuall inte

Re: Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Emmchen
@ Hraban - Thank you for your reply. Yes, I want to display up to four columns. The content of one column depend on the selection in the previous column (exept for the first one). Column 1: Display a list of choices - (eg Systematic, Collection, Growthplace, Heritage). Column 2: Display a filter

Re: def __str__(self) error in tutorial part 1

2007-10-03 Thread Will McCutchen
Hi, On Oct 2, 1:18 pm, rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I am working in TextMate and copied/pasted below code. In TextMate > the "def __str__(self)" is not indented from the pub_date line - it's > the same indent. I too use TextMate to do a lot of my Python development. It consistently ove

Re: confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:22 -0600, staff-gmail wrote: [...] > Honestly, the official tutorial needs to be re-written. The tutorial is for people wanting a step-by-step introduction to a basic project. If you want more information, we have truckloads of reference documentation for people to read.

Re: Error message when viewing admin? (ViewDoesNotExist at /admin/)

2007-10-03 Thread Gabriel Farrell
Did you have a view named "startsess" that you subsequently deleted? Admin is looking for it but not finding it. You may need to remove it from django_content_type. Try dropping that table from your database and running python manage.py syncdb. On Oct 3, 12:34 pm, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-10-03 um 18:30 schrieb Emmchen: > I am wondering if it's possible to link dropdowns using newforms. I > want to use the selected value in the first dropdown as the > filtervalue for the next dropdown etc. > You want the options of the second select to change after selection of the fir

Re: django database setup problem

2007-10-03 Thread Joseph Heck
You're on the right track - missing the MySQL python libraries. It looks like Python is also missing the zlib libraries... not sure which OS you're using, but there's probably an "apt-get install ..." or "rpm -Uvh ..." command that will get you the MySQL Python libraries that you need. Looking on

confused over using ORM in view/template

2007-10-03 Thread staff-gmail
I'm totally confused over how Django uses ORM relationships when listing out data. Let's use the "writing your first app" though I think it's not a very good example. Okay, in the models we have some fields: Poll.question Choice.poll (foreign key) Choice.choice Choice.votes So in a view you c

django database setup problem

2007-10-03 Thread swati
Hi All, I am setting up first django project. When I set up django without any database settings, I could see the first welcome page from django. After this initial success, when I specify the database settings in the 'settings.py' and tried to run django, I am getting error,- "ImproperlyConfigu

Re: Adding extra info to HttpResponseRedirect

2007-10-03 Thread James Bennett
On 10/3/07, Nabuco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a view which receives a list of items in my app to be deleted. > After the deletion, I need to return a page containing the same origin > page plus a message like "the items (items here) have been > successfully deleted". http://www.djangopro

Adding extra info to HttpResponseRedirect

2007-10-03 Thread Nabuco
I have a view which receives a list of items in my app to be deleted. After the deletion, I need to return a page containing the same origin page plus a message like "the items (items here) have been successfully deleted". So, after doing all the required stuff in the view, if I want to avoid the

Re: Effective use of class_prepared signal

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin Slavin
Malcolm, As always, your expedient and thoughtful reply is appreciated. On 10/3/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing that is really guaranteed to be loaded sufficiently early > in the process is the settings module (along with the __init__.py file > in the directory

Error message when viewing admin? (ViewDoesNotExist at /admin/)

2007-10-03 Thread Greg
Hello, Whenever I login to my admin view the very first thing I see if the following error. It also happens occasionally when I'm going through my admin pages. ViewDoesNotExist at /admin/ Tried startsess in module mysite.rugs.views. Error was: 'module' object has no attribute 'startsess' Request

Linking dropdowns using newforms

2007-10-03 Thread Emmchen
Hi, I am wondering if it's possible to link dropdowns using newforms. I want to use the selected value in the first dropdown as the filtervalue for the next dropdown etc. My model looks something like this: /// models.py class Property(models.Model): """ Contains a list of properti

Re: Does setting a session cause a redirect?

2007-10-03 Thread Richard Dahl
I can't see why that would cause a redirect, it is hard to diagnose a problem without seeing the code or the server logs. Is the get request for the same URL? On 10/3/07, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm working on an advanced search feature for a website and am using > request.ses

Re: python script

2007-10-03 Thread Joseph Heck
just modify sys.path as you need... On 10/3/07, Xan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5534 there is a howto for > doing that. > But it's only when the script is in the root project directory. > What happens if we want the script in other location? What line we

Re: Does setting a session cause a redirect?

2007-10-03 Thread Joe
Can you post the command line output? On Oct 3, 11:45 am, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm working on an advanced search feature for a website and am using > request.session to store the search terms so pagination will remember > and paginate correctly. While working with the built-in

Re: how to scale

2007-10-03 Thread James Bennett
On 10/3/07, Andrey Khavryuchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only thing django app should know is that there are two different > *kinds* of servers: read-only and whole access. It doesn't matter how many > servers you have - you may well have pool of masters and pool of slaves, it > doesn't

Does setting a session cause a redirect?

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Hudson
I'm working on an advanced search feature for a website and am using request.session to store the search terms so pagination will remember and paginate correctly. While working with the built-in server I'm seeing that my search submit come through as a POST then almost immediately after I see ano

Re: Effective use of class_prepared signal

2007-10-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:23 -0400, Benjamin Slavin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to make use of the class_prepared signal to add some > functionality to all models. > > The problem I'm facing is how to properly register my listener. > > I need to register the listener before any models are

Effective use of class_prepared signal

2007-10-03 Thread Benjamin Slavin
Hello all, I'm trying to make use of the class_prepared signal to add some functionality to all models. The problem I'm facing is how to properly register my listener. I need to register the listener before any models are prepared, but I can't seem to figure out how to accomplish this. Right n

Re: keeping track of online users

2007-10-03 Thread omat
So, here is my version, using the cache backend: from datetime import timedelta, datetime from django.core.cache import cache from django.contrib.sites.models import Site ONLINE_MINUTES = 10 CACHE_KEY = '%s_online_user_ids' % Site.objects.get_current().domain _last_purged = datetime.now() def

Re: python script

2007-10-03 Thread Xan
In http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5534 there is a howto for doing that. But it's only when the script is in the root project directory. What happens if we want the script in other location? What line we have to add? Thanks a lot, Xan. On Sep 18, 8:27 pm, Horst Gutmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: deleting many2many relationship in object

2007-10-03 Thread Nabuco
Thanks a lot Russ, I am sometimes lazy reading documentation and miss things... cheers, hector On Oct 3, 1:44 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/3/07, Nabuco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In a view I receive some videokeyword id's existing in a Video to be > > d

Re: default values within postgres as defined in the model

2007-10-03 Thread Txus Sanchez
Hi again, I answer myself > http://code.google.com/p/django-check-constraints/ > > But unlucky (nothing to download). What happened? Did it finished? > http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2007-django/downloads/list Here it is. BTW, are you going to include in the django svn version?

Re: Unexpected date translation

2007-10-03 Thread Dirk Eschler
On Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2007, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 15:37 +0200, Dirk Eschler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i'm using a date based generic on a multi-language website. When the > > online language is set to German, {{ date|date:"M"|lower }} returns a > > localized value - "mär

how to apply model method to Queryset in the most efficient way?

2007-10-03 Thread zeliboba
hi all I have a model like this (I intentionally replaced the details by dots): class Family(...): name = ... # field contains non-unique values age = ... # model method to get children, here operations with another model are involved def getChildren(): return ... when I pr

Re: default values within postgres as defined in the model

2007-10-03 Thread Txus Sanchez
Hi all, Here a new Django user (shortly I hope developer). Congratulations for the framework! > There is a Google Summer of Code project going on at the moment for > Django which is designed to allow for adding database constraints. You > might want to have a look at that (search for django-chec

Re: Unexpected date translation

2007-10-03 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 15:37 +0200, Dirk Eschler wrote: > Hi, > > i'm using a date based generic on a multi-language website. When the online > language is set to German, {{ date|date:"M"|lower }} returns a localized > value - "mär" instead of "mar" that is. This breaks the link i intend to > b

fieldsets in newforms

2007-10-03 Thread jrs
I am trying to use fieldsets and newforms, looking at the newforms- admin branch it appears as if support will be included in the admin, but I am not sure of how to integrate this into my custom forms. Is the following possible / are there plans for doing something like the following? {{ form.a

Unexpected date translation

2007-10-03 Thread Dirk Eschler
Hi, i'm using a date based generic on a multi-language website. When the online language is set to German, {{ date|date:"M"|lower }} returns a localized value - "mär" instead of "mar" that is. This breaks the link i intend to build. Can the localisation be turned of somehow in this case? Bes

Re: keeping track of online users

2007-10-03 Thread Marty Alchin
On 10/3/07, omat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used it for some time and observed some inconsistencies. I think > this is because the code is not thread-safe. > > Do you know a thread safe way of applying this approach? Well, "thread-safe" is a confusing term for something like this, but you're

Re: how to do something at startup

2007-10-03 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:06:19PM -0700, pength wrote: > well, I am doing some similiar things, for example, I want to show the > time when this Django/Apache server start, and set some "gloabl > variables" which all of my apps can use, just do like this: > I have a primary app named "city",

Re: forum to mailing list integration

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Lawrence
Ola I should think this functionality would be a valuable addition to Django so thx for your pointers. abracos Ian On 10/2/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 13:22 -0400, Ian Lawrence wrote: > > Hi > > I have a requirement for all forum posts to go to a ma

Re: fixtures

2007-10-03 Thread AniNair
time: '00:00:00' I found it . Thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send

Re: Variables in TemplateTags

2007-10-03 Thread niklas.voss
On 3 Okt., 13:18, peschler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Niklas, > > > So in code it should look like this: > > If user is my argument that was given to render_to_response, i want to > > give the function the submodel status of user; like this: > > {{ percentbar user.status }} > > Some docs on h

Re: Generic/Views implementation decision

2007-10-03 Thread Panos Laganakos
Thanks for the answer Lemuel :) I added a get_images method in the (example) Toy model, which returns a list of the pictures related to it. Which basically just wraps things up: def get_images(self): images = self.toypicture_set.all() return images Doing a select_related, sounds more ef

Re: Variables in TemplateTags

2007-10-03 Thread peschler
Hi Niklas, > So in code it should look like this: > If user is my argument that was given to render_to_response, i want to > give the function the submodel status of user; like this: > {{ percentbar user.status }} > Some docs on how to achieve this can be found here: http://www.djangoproject.c

Re: how to scale

2007-10-03 Thread Andrey Khavryuchenko
JB> On 10/2/07, Andrey Khavryuchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shouldn't it? In case of MySQL replication (which is quite widely used) >> and transactions someone somehow *has* to decide where the whole >> transaction is going - to a master or to a slave. JB> In the case of MySQL, use

new django install

2007-10-03 Thread Matt Davies
Hello everyone Can anyone recommed a good tutorial on how to install django mysql and fastcgi on a Fedora Core 6 box? It's my box so there's no need to worry about hosting companies not allowing certain things. Any help, greatly appreciated. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

keeping track of online users

2007-10-03 Thread omat
Hi, In this thread, closed due to inactivity: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/6f5f759d3fd4318a/ Jeremy Dunck offers a resource friendly way to keep track of online users (http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/attach/ c2f60227b0f2d040/OnlineUsers.py?part=2)

fixtures

2007-10-03 Thread AniNair
Hi... My yaml file is - fields: {time: '0:00'} model: utils.Hour pk: 01 - fields: {time: '0:30'} model: utils.Hour pk: 02 - fields: {time: '1:00'} model: utils.Hour pk: 03 The model for this is from django.db import models class Hour(models.Model): time=models.

Re: Problems creating a project with django-admin startproject (New Django user)

2007-10-03 Thread Nis Jørgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: > Just installed python/apache/django/mod_python with all the latest > versions. > > I think I got most of my PATH variables set up correctly. However, > when I try: > > C:\django>django-admin.py startproject testproject1 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\P

Re: Custom validation for models in admin

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Slotboom
Hi Mike, I have the same problem with my model. (Link below) Reading your "points to a .validate() on the model" raises the following question. Have you tried it? http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/bd2b2c24f3879690 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

Re: Please help with extra validation in admin

2007-10-03 Thread Rob Slotboom
Addition: > This is my model and I use a custom save to prevent the creation of a > category with a parent_id which is the same a the current_id (child of > itself) When an error occurs an ugly error message apears so I tried to create a custom validator. Custom validator didn't work because of

Re: trying to make Django work with fastcgi

2007-10-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I actually got fed up, and nearly resolved to switch either frameworks(pylons, turbogears) or webhosts(webfaction, dreamhost). I deleted everything in a fit and started doing some research. I ran across this in a python installation guide: "At this point, every tutorial around the web will tell