Would it make sense to open a ticket for this? Maybe bring this up in
Django Developers?
doug.
On Jan 22, 10:50 am, Doug Van Horn wrote:
> I'm trying to avoid changing my database around to accommodate
> localized strings. I'm putting all strings from the database into a
I'm trying to avoid changing my database around to accommodate
localized strings. I'm putting all strings from the database into a
holding file (db_messages.py) which get dumped into my django.po file.
The problem is that textarea fields contain "\r\n" as line endings,
and running something like:
Is the username/password prompt from Django or Apache Auth?
If it's Django, change the view to accept username/password params on
the query string (removing decorators and/or changing middleware to
allow access to that url). e.g.,
http://example.com/some/url/?username=foo&password=bar
If it's
On Oct 16, 5:31 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Oct 17, 7:14 am, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is the mod_wsgi configuration you are using and how many
> processes/threads are you using for Apache child processes and
> mod_wsgi dae
I think you'd rather use the default serialization behavior and write
the Choice and Poll objects, letting the Choice objects contain the FK
back to the Poll.
However, if you write your own serializer you'd want to look for
*class* attributes of type
'django.db.models.fields.related.ForeignRelate
I run several applications on a Slicehost VPS and I recently switched
them to run the worker MPM and mod_wsgi.
After switching, I ran into an issue with the worker MPM leaking
timezone information across django applications (actually the timezone
leaks under both mod_python and mod_wsgi/embedded
I would say first that there's more than one way to skin this cat. So
if what you're doing works for your team and your users, stick with
it.
Regarding RESTful URLs, my understanding is that the URL is the noun
and the request method is the verb. E.g.,
http://example.com/somepage/ is your thin
It looks like you have it there in your snippet, you just need to
define your 'selected_a' var. Maybe something like:
if 'a1' in kwargs:
selected_a = kwargs['a1']
Then set your b1 choices based on the group and optional a attribute.
On Apr 30, 4:58 pm, ydjango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
See http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/#accessing-clean-data,
check the 'Note' section.
This was a problem in the old newforms where you couldn't have a field
called 'data' due to the clean_ functions clashing with the
clean_data dictionary.
Also see:
http://code.djangoproject.c
ssion and right before you push the variable into
the template, to see if it's making it through the redirect.
If it is, then the issue is with your template, if it's not then the
issue is with the session.
Doug Van Horn
http://maydigital.com/
On Apr 29, 12:04 am, Brandon Taylor
Your previous description sounds pretty close. Check your URLs in
your HTML (mentioned by Karen Tracey in this thread).
As a quick reference, here are the relevant entries in my settings.py:
import os
ROOT_DIR = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(ROOT_DIR, 'me
7;re deploying against lighttpd I would
guess the concepts are similar.
I guess you don't actually /need/ to serve up your static content via
Apache, the above urls.py entry will work fine under Apache. It's
more a matter of you /should/ (see the static_files link, they give a
bet
FWIW, I don't see a security issue with exposing a surrogate primary
key to the public...
If you're hung up on the issue, though, take Tom's advice and use a
slug for each house as an unique key. You might find the street
address of a house to be a good slug candidate...
On Apr 11, 6:28 pm, ydj
I've done something similar for an e-commerce store. We maintiain the
number of times the product is viewed via search results as well as
the individual product page, as two separate numbers.
I update the fields in the managing views, e.g.:
product.page_view += 1
product.save()
or
for p in re
gt; it's hard to come back to java again!
>
> I will follow my model 1, because it's generic code and it could be
> reusable.
>
> What about a good practices reference guide... Any suggestion?
>
> On Apr 3, 4:54 pm, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
On Apr 3, 9:19 am, bcurtu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I come form j2ee world, this is my first project in Django and usually
> I feel a bit lost about general concepts.
>
> My project has bit too much business code, it's a kind of datamining
> tool. I have created a set of functions
I recieve the following error very *occasionally* from a couple of
different django apps running against Postgres (some backtrace
included for context):
File "/opt/django/trunk/django/db/models/query.py", line 188, in
iterator
cursor = connection.cursor()
File "/opt/django/trunk/django/db/b
're not going to get it, you'll get the proxy.
Back to Andrew and my original problem getting the errors serialized
to json, here's what I did:
errors = {}
for field in form:
errors[field.auto_id] = {'errors': [unicode(e) for e in
field.errors]}
simplejson.dumps(errors)
On Dec 5, 8:29 pm, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 5:31 pm, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip snip snip]
I opened:
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6141
and added some patches. Hopefully it'll get looked
On Dec 5, 5:31 pm, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running into a funny issue when testing with SQLite3 (Python 2.5).
>
> I have a model with the following (simplified):
>
> class Event(models.Model):
> event_title = models.CharField()
> ev
rom_date","app_event"."title"
FROM "app_event" WHERE (django_extract("month",
"app_event"."event_from_date") = 1 AND "app_event"."event_from_date"
BETWEEN 2008-01-01 00:00:00 AND 2008-12-31 23:59:59.99) ORDER BY
On Oct 17, 1:06 pm, stv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> really? I'm researching Django for a potentially large project, I was
> thinking of having a layout like this:
>
> mainproject
> |--core # models reused everywhere: Person, Address, etc
> |--apply # models only for application: Questions, refere
On Oct 17, 9:44 am, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doug,
> Thanks for the reply. It's weird, because in my admin when I show the
> amount in my list_display (list_display = ('b_name', 'thirdtime',
> 'amount', 'customer', 'id')). I see the two zeroes. However, when I
> drill down on a specifi
On Oct 16, 11:19 pm, Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael,
> Yea I'm already using stringformat in my template. However, in my
> view code is where I create the order. When the order is added in the
> view and I then look at it in the admin the price is displayed as 74.0
> instead of 74.00.
On Oct 17, 2:23 am, Manoj Govindan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How many here follow the django axiom of 'one project, multiple apps'?
> If you do, how do you control the sources? Do you map one project to
> one source code repository or do individual apps get their own
> repositories?
I've foun
On Oct 17, 6:47 am, Mathieu Poussin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello ,
> i have a question,
> by default , django add a slash at the end of the url , like that
> :http://my/documents/hello->http://my/documents/hello/
>
> it's possible to add .html instead of that ? like that
> :http://my/docum
On Oct 16, 5:35 am, Divan Roulant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I loose request data when I call a view with reverse from a previous
> view. Here is what I do:
[snip]
> Is request data supposed to follow or is it normal to loose it? Is
> there another way to preserve request data between
On Oct 16, 7:06 am, "Fco. Javier Nievas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you give a link to that patch?
>
> Thanks
I wrote a post about how I handled including a model ID in the path of
an uploaded file:
http://dougblog.com/articles/2007/oct/11/dynamic-upload/
I didn't address any other issu
On Oct 15, 3:11 pm, onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arn't stings slower against integers?
A datatype of varchar versus integer isn't what's going to slow you
down. If you don't have an index on a column and you use that column
in your predicate (i.e., where clause) you will end up doing a full
On Oct 15, 1:51 pm, onno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The most annoying thing about using:
>
> TYPE = (('1', 'foo'),('2', 'BAR'))
> type = models.IntegerField(choices=TYPE)
>
> Is that you can't do this in your views when you need to select
> something
>
> Foo.objects.filter(type='BAR')
>
> you ha
On Oct 15, 10:01 am, Rytis Sileika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was just wondering, what are the best practices to setup/manage
> django projects?
[snip]
> Thanks!
>
> Rytis
To expand on Chris' answer, here's what I would recommend:
Create your project in Subversion (or CVS, or what ha
On Aug 3, 11:50 am, Doug Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 6:37 am, Bram - Smartelectronix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
[snip]
You see, you learn something new every day. Based on Nis Jørgensen's
post above, here's a refined age function using the fan
On Aug 3, 6:37 am, Bram - Smartelectronix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> does anyone have a good age in years calculation function for usage with
> datetime.date that returns the age in nr of years of a person?
>
> We were using:
>
> def get_age(self):
> now = datetime.today()
)
If you take a look at the LazyUser object you will see that the User
is only loaded when request.user is accessed.
Hope that helps (and is accurate :-).
Doug Van Horn
www.maydigital.com
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On Jul 19, 2:19 pm, David Marko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know this topis has been discussed already but I stiil havent find
> solution. We would like to build up the application that will be used
> by many customers. After registration the customer will access
> application via its subdomain
:
import uuid
uuid.uuid4()
That should give you less false positives in identifying duplicate
form submissions.
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On Jun 29, 12:20 pm, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for instance, how can I make this:
>
> {% ifequal day.day day.today %} class="today"{% endifequal %}>
>
> Not put the CR inside the ?
Is that line broken by a line break inserted by you? I would think
this would achieve your desire
On Jun 29, 12:59 pm, dystopia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip]... Would I
> then have have to implement the functionality of this in every view by
> calling an cartSummary method and pushing that out into the template?
> Or is it better to somehow compile all this functionality into a
> templat
I have a design approach I've been kicking around and thought the
group might have some opinions on the subject.
Here's the scenario. You're on a web page and you're filling in data
for a new Widget to add to your inventory. In the middle of the form
you see that you need to create a new Type f
You should install this plugin for Firefox. It'll help you with your
myriad GMail accounts:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1320
Of course it may be that you only use IE, so you may need to join that
project's mailing list and request them to rewrite it to support your
browser o
Have you considered OpenID? I'm no expert but it might provide you
with the authentication you're looking for, without having to collect
passwords.
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On Jun 4, 5:56 am, Ulf Dambacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2007 20:02 schrieb Ulf Dambacher:> Hi
>
> > I need some kind of widget which can narrow the select by using
> > cateogries. But how can this be done in django?
>
> > Java? Sorry...
>
> > Ideas, Anyone ?
>
> Apparentl
It's probably a little bit more advanced, and it's certainly not a
tutorial, but the Python Challenge (http://www.pythonchallenge.com/)
is a good way to get familiar with the language and its tools.
I think I made it through 17 or so when I was first learning Python.
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I use rimuhosting.com. I'm pretty sure they have a Data Center in
London, so that might be the right up your alley.
I'm in St. Louis, where Slicehost is located, but they have a
ridiculous waiting list. So I can't even try them out.
I've been happy with Rimu, though.
doug.
On May 15, 10:12
On Apr 25, 3:16 pm, "Kai Kuehne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit confused on how do it 'right(tm)'. Is there a
> rule or how would you do it?
>
You're asking about surrogate and natural keys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogate_key
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_key
On Apr 24, 5:59 pm, Nick Tidey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the help Robin. I'm new to Python also, so wasn't too sure
> about how to reuse the apps.
>
> I'll see if I can't use triggers to propagate the user information
> between databases. Unless there's a better way?
>
You could ins
On Apr 14, 11:15 am, "Mike Hostetler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does anyone need more info? Because I'm stuck.
>
I'm not seeing the same problem. I set up a little example app with
the following urls.py:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
(r'^admin/myapp/mymodel/', 'webcode.myapp.views.mymode
s', 'The
Eggs'))
class FoodForm(forms.Form):
food = forms.ChoiceField(choices=FOODS, label='Favorite Food')
Then just render the form field like you normally would:
{{ form.food }}
Check it for syntax, but I'm pre
del. That's probably not what you're looking for, though.
Maybe someone else will post something more helpful. :-)
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On Jan 31, 4:51 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would you go about using seperate subdomains for certain apps in a
> project? What I would like to do is something like this:
>
> urlpatterns = patterns('',
> (r'^weblog\.[a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z0-9-]{3}',
> include('mysite.blog.
+ hour old last_request. Next, I
should update the 'last_request' variable to now."
Please apply a liberal amount of sodium chloride to this as I haven't
done this in the past and I certainly haven't coded and tested it.
But, from the psuedo-code ab
uest
Handle your base case, where there is no 'last_request' (and thus no
last_seen), and you should be good.
Hope that helps.
And remember the advice listed by an earlier post-er. Design your
algorithm on paper. Think it through. Write some psuedo code. Run
some mental
David Abrahams wrote:
...One problem is that the name of the Django
project folder (and thus root module) always seems to creep into the
code in the app-specific directories.
IANADE (django-expert), but from what I've gleaned you can put the path
of each individual application into the python
it or has some
pointers on what I could do to shed some light on the problem. Thanks
for your help...
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Nevermind. I found Ticket #3089
[http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3089] after a little Google-ing.
I'll be interested in seeing what that one is all about.
Meanwhile, I'll continue to repeat to myself: "Google is my friend."
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nvironment'. However, I've read posts
here before of people claiming to /never/ use postgres schemas. I
interpret that to mean that having multiple databases in a cluster does
not cost much...
Remember, if you have an opinion you'd like to sha
I've been kicking around Django for a few months now and the one thing
I've been trying to figure out is how to unit test my code. I
understand how to go about testing the models (non-django provided
functionality) and any other 'domain' objects I may have, but I'm
struggling with how to test the
I'm no expert either, but this seems to work for me:
fp = StringIO()
myImage.save(fp, 'jpeg') # or whatever format
self.save_thumbnail_file(myName, fp.getvalue())
Nice thread. I was just fixin' to get to this for my demo app.
Thanks!
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I'm not sure if this has been discussed. My searches yielded no fruit.
I have page components that are common across many of my pages. Here
are a few of them:
== A user specific menu, cached in the session.
== A shopping cart, cached in the session.
== A list of recently visited items, c
I posted this here to:
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db_api/
It seems that when you pass a Q() object into .filter() or .exclude(),
you end up with the same results. That is, the context of the method,
filter or exclude, is ignored when it receives a Q object.
For example:
In [1]:
Thanks! I ended up seeing that after my original post. I knew I was
missing something.
Unfortunately that behavior does exactly what you would expect, one
query, yielding mixed results. In other words, if I search for 'zo' my
results would be ordered ['Bozo', 'Zorro']. I'd like for the result
I wish I could edit my post. I see that & and | do work. I posted to
early.
I think you can pretty much disregard my post. I'm probably going to
have to get clever in joining up my data for 'relevence'.
Sorry for the disturbance. I'll be sure to google better next time.
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I thought I'd post this as I'm not seeing anything obvious in the
documentation (that is to say, I cannot /find/ anything, not that it
/isn't/ there in an obvious place).
I'm making a particular object searchable from my customer UI. I will
have a field titled: 'Quick Search' which will search t
For what it's worth, I have a similar concept in storing the contents
of a shopping cart. I created a 'ShoppingCart' object which can hold
items and their quantities, plus it adds some convenience methods like
getting the list of items, the total cost, etc. I store this object in
the user's sess
> I hate to say it, but Routes and most of the other schemes presented
> _do_ feel over-engineered. The current URL patterns system is fast
> and clean.
I actually agree 100%. And my earlier post indeed smacks of
overengineering. And in my current smallish project I don't intend to
do any of t
I'm going to type out loud for a little bit. I'm hoping to better
define the problem so we can think about solutions more clearly (or go
find ones as solved by other frameworks).
Django has the concept of an application, a reusable chunk of
functionality which can be reused in many different pro
> ...but we've given some thought to putting the
> get_absolute_url() logic in URLconfs instead, so at least the
> logic is in a single file.
I'm not as concerned with where it's encapsulated, just that it is.
I didn't know about the get_absolute_url() method and the
ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES menti
A sed won't work in all situations as it relies on the fact that you
constuct the URL in a particular way. What if the URL is constructed
dynamically in a template? Or in code?
Not to mention the fact that it breaks application encapsulation. If I
have ten integrated apps deployed a syntax cha
Disclaimer: I'm new to Python and Django, but I've been coding Java
since '98.
In thinking about the url definitions in urls.py, it occurs to me that
a major rewrite of the url patterns could prove to be a pain. For
example, I have an app where the urls are deployed under /foo/, and I
have a URL
For the record, I'm using IDE rather loosely. I'm certainly not
looking for a VB-esque tool. At one point I was slinging Java in Emacs
with JDE. Now I find Eclipse extremely useful. It pretty much stays
out of the way. I get me editors with autocomplete, Ant deploys, and
external run targets
Has anyone heard of something along the lines of a 'RadRails' for
Django?
I google'd around and didn't see anything, other than PyDev. But I was
thinking that a similar product would be a pretty nice feather in
Django's hat.
I'm a n00b with Python, but I'm trying it and Django out for some side
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