Re: molecular formulae

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Dewhirst
I think I have found a workaround but it will probably blow up in my face due to encoding/decoding things I don't fully understand. Can anyone comment on the robustness of calling the following method in a model's save() ... """ def subscript(self): formula = u'' if self.formula:

Re: Skip upload of existing S3 Object

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Hasenpflug
The reason I'm POSTing after the direct upload to S3 I need to create the model with extra data. As far as I can tell S3's success_action_redirect doesn't allow you to pass additional information. Additionally, since this is an ImageField, I can't set the key directly. At the moment, I've resorted

molecular formulae

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Does anyone know of a Django widget for representing molecula formulae? For example, entering h2o would display with the 2 subscripted and the h and o both uppercased. Thanks Mike -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to t

Re: how to avoid pk collisions at loaddata time

2012-01-05 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Anshuman Aggarwal wrote: > Russ, >  Just wanted to pick up an old thread about loading fixtures without > PK ...isn't this now a natural extension of the natural_key support > that was included in Django 1.2? Anybody else for whom this is a big > enough itch? It's

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Petite Abeille
On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:13 AM, Chris Kavanagh wrote: > I believe, thanks to your (previous) post, I was confused as to the > difference between SQL and Database in general. I had thought learning > SQL was learning database design. When in actuality, it's just the > language used to access database

Re: project root or its parent in pythonpath?

2012-01-05 Thread d.w. harks
On Thursday, January 05, 2012 2:21:30 PM, Demetrio Girardi wrote: I have two apps which are inter-dependent and import stuff from one another; if I decide to go for the project.app route, is there a way to import things without a reference to the project name? otherwise the imports would have

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Kavanagh
On Jan 5, 2:54 pm, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/06/2012 02:35 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > > Django's models are just a means to define those independent of engine > > specific notation. > > while introducing django-specific notation, which generally maps more > neatly to the theoretical foundati

Re: This Week In History

2012-01-05 Thread Thorsten Sanders
You dont mention the database you use if mysql you could do SELECT * FROM WHERE DATE_FORMAT(, "%u") = DATE_FORMAT(curdate(), "%u") dont know if there is a django orm way to do it, but could always use a raw query. Am 05.01.2012 21:14, schrieb Tim Sawyer: Hi Folks, Does anyone have a stra

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Kavanagh
On Jan 5, 10:35 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:50:41 -0800 (PST), Chris Kavanagh > >         While my comment regarding MVC has been shot down by others, I'll > still stand by the comment regarding relational database theory: the > first three Codd Normal Forms and related

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Chris Kavanagh
On Jan 5, 3:58 am, Lie Ryan wrote: > On 01/05/2012 01:01 PM, Chris Kavanagh wrote: > > > While learning SQL could be helpful for writing fine-tuned SQL queries, > IMO it doesn't really help much to design an effective database. To > design an effective database schema, you need to learn about da

Re: Users getting logged out frequently

2012-01-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >        That would have to be a very erratic clock setting -- are there > systems that don't use an NTP server to synchronize the clock? (I think > all of my computers synchronize on a weekly basis). virtual machines can have terribly erra

Re: Pointing to Memcached on Remote Server

2012-01-05 Thread mattym
Thanks again everyone The solution was a quick adjustment in memcached.conf. Changing -l 127.0.0.1 to -l 0.0.0.0 Matt On Dec 5 2011, 1:27 pm, mattym wrote: > Thanks all - > > I stepped away from this issue for a few days.  I am confident this > thread will point me in the right direction. > >

project root or its parent in pythonpath?

2012-01-05 Thread Demetrio Girardi
Upon reading the django tutorial, I was under the impression that you should have the project root folder in your pythonpath, so that each app is available for import in modules, e.g. you can do import myapp However, my IDE seems to prefer putting its root in the pythonpath, so you'd have to

Re: This Week In History

2012-01-05 Thread Sherif Shehab Aldin
You can generate a random number for the year, random number for the day, and query with them. Regards, Sherif. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Tim Sawyer wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Does anyone have a strategy for selecting from a database where the date > is this week, but a random year in the pas

This Week In History

2012-01-05 Thread Tim Sawyer
Hi Folks, Does anyone have a strategy for selecting from a database where the date is this week, but a random year in the past? I have ~100 years of events in a database, each with a datefield - I would like to do a "this week in history" box that lists one or two on the homepage, randomly t

Re: no plus-sign to add related object in admin

2012-01-05 Thread K.C. Smith
I have written a small patch that will add this feature (i.e., the ability to register a model in the admin and stop it from showing up in the index). If your problem was the same as mine, then this can get the plus signs where you want them without changing your preferred admin view. See https:/

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/06/2012 02:35 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: Django's models are just a means to define those independent of engine specific notation. while introducing django-specific notation, which generally maps more neatly to the theoretical foundation than SQL (while SQL maps more neatly to the imp

Re: virtualenv wrecked my Django+modules install

2012-01-05 Thread Andre Terra
Hello, The error you're seeing is due to Django not being installed in your virtual environment. virtualenv is the way to go, unless you have an incredibly good reason not to use it. It couldn't possibly break anything as it installs virtual environments alongside your system wide Python. If yo

Re: virtualenv wrecked my Django+modules install

2012-01-05 Thread Brett Epps
It sounds like you installed the Django/Satchmo/other packages globally. If you switch out of the virtualenv by running c:\path\to\virtualenv\bin\deactivate, those packages should be available again. I try to never install packages globally, with tools like pip or hg being the only exceptions. I a

virtualenv wrecked my Django+modules install

2012-01-05 Thread Alec Taylor
Good morning, On my system (Windows 8 Developer Preview x64 with Python 2.7.2 x64) I painstakingly installed all the dependencies for Django, Satchmo and a few other large scale projects. (about 10% couldn't be installed with pip, which is why I use the word 'painstakingly') Recently though I ne

Taking a sample mysql dump

2012-01-05 Thread Amit Sethi
Is there a way one could take the dump of just a few sample fields using mysqldump or some other similar tool. ?? Such that you can use it similar to fixture data -- A-M-I-T S|S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this g

Re: How to get spanning relationships queryset right?

2012-01-05 Thread Carsten Fuchs
Dear Javier, Am 03.01.2012 20:05, schrieb Javier Guerra Giraldez: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Carsten Fuchs wrote: How can I find only those blogs where *all* entries were (co-)authored by 123? Blog.objects.exclude(entry__

Re: Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Rainy
On Jan 5, 12:38 pm, Rainy wrote: > On Jan 5, 12:35 pm, Guy Nesher wrote: > > > Thanks, > > > I've initially tried to use a dictionary but was still unable to pull > > the data in the template. > > > I'm using your updated context processor: > > def swiss_context_processors(request): > >     add

Re: Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Rainy
On Jan 5, 12:35 pm, Guy Nesher wrote: > Thanks, > > I've initially tried to use a dictionary but was still unable to pull > the data in the template. > > I'm using your updated context processor: > def swiss_context_processors(request): >     added_context = { 'mytest': 'aaa', } >     return add

Re: Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Guy Nesher
Thanks, I've initially tried to use a dictionary but was still unable to pull the data in the template. I'm using your updated context processor: def swiss_context_processors(request): added_context = { 'mytest': 'aaa', } return added_context and trying to call {{added_context.mytest}} i

Re: Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Nan
Two things: 1) make sure the context processor is installed in your settings file. 2) context processors should return dicts. Try: def swiss_context_processors(request): added_context = { 'mytest': 'aaa', } return added_context On Jan 5, 12:03 pm, Guy Nesher wrote: > Hi, > > I've crea

Re: Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Elkins
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:03:56AM -0800, Guy Nesher wrote: I've created a simple context processor which simply returns a variable, however I'm unable to retrieve it from my template. "Each context processor must return a dictionary." https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/templates/api/#w

Passing variables from a context processor to a template

2012-01-05 Thread Guy Nesher
Hi, I've created a simple context processor which simply returns a variable, however I'm unable to retrieve it from my template. The context processor is quite simple : def swiss_context_processors(request): mytest = "aaa" return mytest and I am calling the context processor in my view

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan
thnx mate its working now ;) -- 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 email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more o

how to avoid pk collisions at loaddata time

2012-01-05 Thread Anshuman Aggarwal
Russ, Just wanted to pick up an old thread about loading fixtures without PK ...isn't this now a natural extension of the natural_key support that was included in Django 1.2? Anybody else for whom this is a big enough itch? Regards, Anshuman -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread J. Cliff Dyer
Your problem is the curly quotes around “Times New Roman”. First, they will prevent CSS from seeing the font as Times New Roman, and second, they are encoded with the byte 0x93, which is how they show up in the various Windows code pages (cp1252, for instance). Convert your file to UTF-8, if you

Re: Users getting logged out frequently

2012-01-05 Thread m1chael
Could an incorrect computer clock contribute to this kind of issue? On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 08:56:57 +0530, Arun P wrote: > >>That’s a lot of education Dennis. Thanks. > >        Pardon, but just who were you replying to? Consider whose > at

Re: Admin interface does not save routine object

2012-01-05 Thread Andy Oram
Yes (and sorry for getting your name wrong before, Brett). str(self.document) works. On Jan 4, 6:26 pm, Brett Epps wrote: > Oh, I think the problem is in the __unicode__() method of your Quiz8 > model.  You're returning self.document, which is a Document8 object and > not a unicode string.  Try r

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Simon Holness
I would hazard a guess that your index.html file is actually not ascii or utf-8 but some other encoding - probably cp1252 0x93 in cp1252 is a "smart quote" ( see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 ) so that would look like it fits with the line quoted below. Open it in an editor that knows

Re: Using STATIC_URL in CSS/JS files?

2012-01-05 Thread francescortiz
The only case in which you can have issues with double brackets is when a '{{' appears in the same line and before than a '}}'. On Jan 4, 10:18 pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > Good point.  But you can run into double braces in JS. > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Christophe Pettus wrote

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan
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Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan
i will post my index page now -- 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 email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread francescortiz
Also, don't forget about the magic functions provided by django: smart_unicode and smart_str On Jan 5, 2:27 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, César Frias wrote: > > I guess you have some files without the # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on the top > > of the file > > > You will n

Re: Oracle's SP OUT param

2012-01-05 Thread Akira Kir
That worked, tho i was already making all based on cx_oracle. Thanks ;:) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/h-KISDJysLkJ. To post to this group

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Karen Tracey
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, César Frias wrote: > I guess you have some files without the # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on the top > of the file > > You will need this if you want to use some letters like é or ç... > > No, you get a different exception if you are missing the encoding declaration in

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread César Frias
I guess you have some files without the # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- on the top of the file You will need this if you want to use some letters like é or ç... Att, César Frias Linux user: #506849 Twitter: twitter.com/cesarFrias 2012/1/5 Piotr Zalewa > Please attach the index.html - there might b

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:18:52 UTC, Hassan wrote: > > Dear ALL, > > i am trying to do render_to_response('index.html') , and i keep geting > this dont know why ? its a normal html page ??!! what to do ? > You need to post some code. However 99 times out of 100, when you see this error

Re: UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Piotr Zalewa
Please attach the index.html - there might be an unknown unicode character zalun On 01/05/12 12:18, Hassan wrote: Dear ALL, i am trying to do render_to_response('index.html') , and i keep geting this dont know why ? its a normal html page ??!! what to do ? UnicodeDecodeError at / 'utf8' code

Re: Django Form Field: BoundField question

2012-01-05 Thread Sven
Hi Tom, thanks for the link, in case of 'datetime.date.today' the callable makes a lot of sense. I changed my class field so that the value is not more a class definition, now it is wrapped by some kind of a proxy instance to avoid the callable effect. -- Best Regards Sven On Thursday

Re: How do you organize your deployment enviroment

2012-01-05 Thread Alexis Bellido
I think Fabric is the easiest solution, the tutorial is pretty good [http:/fabfile.org], Katie wrote about how she uses Fabric [http://therealkatie.net/blog/2011/nov/28/katie-finally-talks-about-her-fabfiles/], and I tried to extend the idea a little to setup a server from scratch just with a

Re: Django dev/deploy environment for distributed agile teams

2012-01-05 Thread Alexis Bellido
I wrote a Fabric script to automate Django deployment, in my tests with Ubuntu servers (actually, virtual machines running under KVM) the script took 14 minutes from a clean Ubuntu install to a running Django environment. You can get the code in GitHub: https://github.com/alexisbellido/The-Djan

Re: How to deploy new code to the Production Server?

2012-01-05 Thread Alexis Bellido
I don't think you need different braches in your code repository for your development and production (and don't forget staging) environments. The main differences are in the settings.py values and the database used. You can even use the same settings.py for different environments with clever us

UnicodeDecodeError

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan
Dear ALL, i am trying to do render_to_response('index.html') , and i keep geting this dont know why ? its a normal html page ??!! what to do ? UnicodeDecodeError at / 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 3197: invalid start byte Request Method: GET Request URL:http://127.0.0.1:800

Re: Oracle's SP OUT param

2012-01-05 Thread Tim Sawyer
This might help: http://drumcoder.co.uk/blog/2010/apr/23/output-parameters-cx_oracle-and-plsql/ Tim. > Hello. > Im trying to get Oracle SPs working in django. > > Procedure recives in_param and out_param > > in get_data function i do > > [code] > def get_data(self, in_param): > cursor = conn

Re: Django Form Field: BoundField question

2012-01-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:25 PM, sassman wrote: > Hi, > > i'm using Django Version 1.3.1, can anyone say me why is the value > function in BoundField (FormField) makes a check if the value is > callable? > >    def value(self): >        """ >        Returns the value for this BoundField, using the

Re: Cheap Django hosting?

2012-01-05 Thread victoria
Hi, I wanted to mention that if you are OK with using EC2 you can also use the public BitNami DjangoStack AMI (I'm part from the BitNami team). It includes preconfigured version of Apache with mod_wsgi, django 1.3.1 and Python 2.6.5. It also includes PostgreSQL and MySQL. Alternatively you can als

Re: django/Data Base Advice

2012-01-05 Thread Lie Ryan
On 01/05/2012 01:01 PM, Chris Kavanagh wrote: On Jan 4, 8:20 am, Andre Terra wrote: I'm sorry, folks, but I'll have to *vehemently **disagree *with a lot of what has been said in this thread. To the OP, I'm sorry I didn't reply any sooner. No, you *don't need *to go reading about what MVC me

Re: admin interface error

2012-01-05 Thread Hassan
i did this in the WSGI file : import os import sys os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings' import django.core.handlers.wsgi application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() and i added the path for my website and when i did syncdb it created my tables but i cant access the