Re: Hello All - Wordpress to Django Python Web Developer

2017-10-08 Thread Yannick le Roux
Totally agree with you about Viktor tutorial. Finally a teacher that uses diagrams to show newbies how models are related etc I followed a tutorial on udemy before, I learned quit a lot. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubs

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
> The only criticism I have seen of lighttpd is that is has been a long > time since last release and that it can leak memory. Don't know how > valid that is, so I could be generating my own FUD here. :-) Well. I was running it for more than a year without a restart at some stage and I didn't not

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
currently running lighttpd which has a fair bit of config that I don't want to move, I'm going to probably run that in front of apache rather than nginx. (at least for now and assuming it "just works") Le Roux --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
> If it is to bring down application for maintenance, seems like it > would be easier to use Apache/mod_wsgi in daemon mode. I'll give mod_wsgi a go. To be honest I never looked at it before simply because it is tied to apache. But if it can easily do everything I need using a reasonable amount o

better uptime with a fallback app

2009-07-22 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
I'm trying to keep my django powered cms online even when I have to restart the app or take it down for maintenance. My rendered pages are generally quite cacheable and they only change if someone content manages a page or someone comments, etc. which happens relatively rarely. I have a very cru

Re: best place to put dispatcher.connect code?

2006-11-29 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
I actually just tried that, but I'm getting import errors. Probably because I am importing from myapp.something.module.. Putting code in settings.py just seems dodgy. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: best place to put dispatcher.connect code?

2006-11-29 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
Actually, no. That didn't really work. Now manage.py seems even more confused. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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.co

Re: best place to put dispatcher.connect code?

2006-11-29 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
Aah. It is because of this chicken and egg scenario.. manage.py adds your project's dir to the path after it imports your settings module. So when the settings module is being imported your project is not in the path yet, so you cannot import from myproject.some_package.some_module.. I now added

best place to put dispatcher.connect code?

2006-11-29 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
sking if there is a place where I can put code that will always run when a django process executes and before any save() methods are called.. Le Roux --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django us

Re: bulk delete question

2006-07-20 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
o way of "making it idiot proof"... ;) On 20/07/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/19/06, Le Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I do something like MyModel.objects.filter(id__in=[1, 2, > > 3]).delete(), it doesn't look

bulk delete question

2006-07-19 Thread Le Roux
the delete() method in the model to delete the associated file(s), but it looks like that won't cut it. If there's no easy way to override the bulk delete, is there at least a way to stop the QuerySet's delete from executing? Le Roux --~--~-~--~~~---~-

Re: Checking whether a Foreignkey object has been assigned to anything

2006-07-12 Thread Le Roux
I recently had a similar problem and ended up just writing some custom sql (see http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/model_api/#executing-custom-sql) because I can only think of doing this useing a group by clause. (unless you just want the category ids, then you can do a SELECT distinct cat

Re: how do I exlude big fields from long listings?

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
Aah thanks. I actually saw that function, noticed that it returns dictionaries, but didn't notice the fact that you can pass in the fields you want as parameters.. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dj

how do I exlude big fields from long listings?

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
Is there any way of telling the db api to not return certain fields? I want to get a list of all the news articles for a specific year and I don't need the big fields like the body text. I can't find anything in the documentation, but thought that maybe someone else already dealt with it. I know

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
innick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 10:31 +, Le Roux wrote: > > Looks like I fixed it now. Here's a patch: > > > > django_src/django/forms/__init__.py: > > > > --- __init__.py (revision 3278) > > +++ __init__.py (workin

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2300 http://code.djangoproject.com/attachment/ticket/2300/django_forms__init__.diff --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, s

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
oops. that manipulator.save() bit is a bit buggy (I changed it after I pasted to give returnValue a more meaningful name and then didn't change all the occurrances) but it works here ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
Looks like I fixed it now. Here's a patch: django_src/django/forms/__init__.py: --- __init__.py (revision 3278) +++ __init__.py (working copy) @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ def get_validation_errors(self, new_data): "Returns dictionary mapping field_names to error-message lists" +self

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
aah sorry.. my reply was to your first reply ;) I'll re-read everything and then think again ;) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
I'm referring to CheckboxSelectMultipleField and your code snippet is for CheckboxField... I'm going to do an svn up just incase and think about it a bit more.. maybe I'm missing something. As far as I can tell the rendering works fine. The value is just completely blank "on the other side" after

prepare method in Manipulator (and FomField) doesn't get called (and also a minor bug in CheckboxSelectMultipleField)

2006-07-06 Thread Le Roux
lly uses prepare and since the formfield generally doesn't work it probably means it is not widely used ;) Le Roux --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to thi

Re: what is the best way to capture the subdomain and send it to a view?

2006-01-05 Thread Le Roux
Cool. Thanks a lot. I'll try that out when I get home. It is definitely the cleanest solution by far.

Re: what is the best way to capture the subdomain and send it to a view?

2006-01-04 Thread Le Roux
I thought about that and actually started implementing it, but then I realised that it is not very maintainable and things will be too coupled. (I like using the development server for development and I would like to try and deploy on lighttpd) Plus then every resource effectively has two urls wh

Re: what is the best way to capture the subdomain and send it to a view?

2006-01-04 Thread Le Roux
Thanks. I'll do that. It just feels like that type of thing should happen outside of the view (and come to the view as a parameter). The other thing is that _all_ my views will need this and to me that just feels a bit dirty. I guess it is probably the best way, though.

what is the best way to capture the subdomain and send it to a view?

2006-01-04 Thread Le Roux
l the subdomains, so how do I extract the subdomain name and send it to my view? I figure this should be possible with the middleware, but where/how? Le Roux

Re: question / suggestion for one to many fields

2005-11-05 Thread Le Roux
t containing of wiki pages for that wiki only) Is this possible? Or can you suggest an alternative? If there is nothing to do this, then I don't mind adding something. Please just point me in the right direction.. I don't really know my way around Django's code yet ;) Le Roux

Re: how do I tell the admin interface to do lookups with select_related?

2005-11-05 Thread Le Roux
Thanks! wow, that was quick! I can see the query is selecting a lot more stuff, but when I do a self.get_owner() inside my function, it still run a query.. self.owner is not already set either. Surely it shouldn't run the query? Le Roux

question / suggestion for one to many fields

2005-11-05 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
t a little plus next to each wiki for adding a wikipage. This will then take you to the wikipage add form and have the correct wiki preselected. Maybe this is already possible, but I just can't find it ;) Le Roux

how do I tell the admin interface to do lookups with select_related?

2005-11-05 Thread Le Roux Bodenstein
_related=True to the lookup for the listing? Then I don't have to do a query for each row in the listing and I can just somehow use the owner object directly. Le Roux