Updating custom permissions in a view

2012-04-23 Thread bfrederi
Does anyone know why create_permissions doesn't work (or throw any errors) when used in a view, but works when I run the same code in the manage.py shell? ## views.py ### from django.db.models import get_app from django.contrib.auth.management import create_permissions from django.http imp

Re: Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-09 Thread bfrederi
Makes sense. I actually ended up using your example and it worked well as far as I can tell. And you actually explained the importing too, which is where I messed up previously. Also, I made the mistake of putting it in a file that was already importing a bunch of other things, so I got wrapped up

Re: Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-09 Thread bfrederi
I tried akaariai's method, but I may have done the importing wrong. It seemed to make apache struggle mightily to the point where it was unusable for some reason. Doug, I don't see how the LazyFetch you wrote is much different than what akaariai shared? Can you explain to me what the difference is

Re: Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-09 Thread bfrederi
27;) > > > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:29 PM, bfrederi wrote: > > I'm already using memcached over http so I can have multiple memcached > > instances. But there isn't any way to set priority or which cache the > > item goes to or is pulled from.

Re: Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-08 Thread bfrederi
hing the data using Django's caching framework and either > the local memory or memcached backend.  To update the cache, write a > management command that runs periodically as a cron job.  (If you find > yourself needing more sophisticated background task management, check out > Celery

Re: Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-08 Thread bfrederi
So would I put that class in my settings.py? Where would I put that class to make sure that the data is frequently retrieved from local memory? On Feb 8, 4:47 pm, akaariai wrote: > On Feb 9, 12:14 am, bfrederi wrote: > > > I have some data that I retrieve using urllib and the

Dynamic settings variables (dynamic global variable)

2012-02-08 Thread bfrederi
I have some data that I retrieve using urllib and then cache on a different server that I frequently use through my site. Since it gets used so frequently, I was wondering why it might be a good/bad idea to make the urllib request in the settings.py. It's data that gets changed infrequently, but sh

Django Caching appended character issue

2012-01-30 Thread bfrederi
I've noticed that occasionally XML files that we create and server through Django get a character appended onto the file when Django caching is turned on. If I restart memcached on the remote server, the appended character (in the last case I saw, it was a "W") disappears and the XML file appears n

Re: Middleware response giving 302 instead of 404

2011-05-26 Thread bfrederi
Flatpages view: https://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tags/releases/1.3/django/contrib/flatpages/views.py#L20 -- 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 unsubsc

Re: Middleware response giving 302 instead of 404

2011-05-26 Thread bfrederi
I discovered it was because flatpages automatically adds an append slash, and the custom middleware I wrote has to come after the flatpages middleware. When append slash is added, the query is stripped from the url, but I needed the query to be retained. So example.com/thing.php?q=test would en

Middleware response giving 302 instead of 404

2011-05-26 Thread bfrederi
I wrote a middleware to redirect legacy urls when they 404. I noticed a problem with urls that have .extension in the path, such as: example.com/thing.php?q=test When I check the response.status_code in my middleware, it gives a 302 instead of a 404. But when I use django's resolve() on request.pat

Streaming a csv file

2011-02-25 Thread bfrederi
I've tried a couple of different methods for streaming a large csv file (it takes a few minutes to download entirely). The most recent method I pulled from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2922874/how-to-stream-an-httpresponse-with-django I turned off the GZipMiddleware and added the @cond

Re: django-admin.py cleanup large scale

2010-08-23 Thread bfrederi
. On Aug 23, 12:17 am, bfrederi wrote: > When I attempt to run a normal cleanup, the cleanup eventually loses > connection to the database and dies. I think I am going to have to > take the manual approach. > > One thing that I wanted to point out is that I think you meant the SQL

Re: django-admin.py cleanup large scale

2010-08-22 Thread bfrederi
< '2010-01-01 1:23:45'; It should be less than, I believe. But that is very helpful, and I will need to use that to clean up the session table manually. On Aug 20, 8:44 pm, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:51 PM, bfrederi wrote: > > I just wanted to

django-admin.py cleanup large scale

2010-08-20 Thread bfrederi
I just wanted to know if anyone had an opinion or whether running a django-admin.py cleanup on 40 million session rows might slow down or lock up the database. I would like to do this cleanup ASAP, but I was concerned it might cause some issues. -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: Admin Foreign Key "Add" Link Issue

2010-06-09 Thread bfrederi
This thread really helped: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/974c36053d40a38/00f7ff4760aa7d6f -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Admin Foreign Key "Add" Link Issue

2010-06-09 Thread bfrederi
ects that live under accession accession_admin = admin.AdminSite(name="tfc") accession_admin.register(Accession, AccessionAdmin) accession_admin.register(Donor, DonorAdmin) Then in urls.py: url(r'^tfc/admin/', include(accession_admin.urls)), url(r'^admin/', include(ma

Admin Foreign Key "Add" Link Issue

2010-06-08 Thread bfrederi
I am having some problems with the admin foreign key fields. The "+" link leads to incorrect urls for adding new foreign keys. This happens in nearly all instances in admin, such as the group foreign key in the Django User model. Here is what the + link provides: "http://example1.com/admin/auth/use

Re: urllib2: post request to a django form

2010-04-14 Thread bfrederi
Perfect! Thanks for the advice. I should have been using pdb with the devserver a long time ago. I used this screencast as a tutorial: http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/aug/31/using-pdb-python-debugger-django-debugging-series-/ As I stepped through my request, I realized that the Referer wasn't g

urllib2: post request to a django form

2010-04-13 Thread bfrederi
I'm attempting to re-route user posts from one django instance to another. I'm doing this by receiving a user's post request, and then sending the post to another django instance as a post request (sorry if this is confusing). I'm having trouble making a post request to a django form using urllib2

Re: ChoiceField invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

2010-04-13 Thread bfrederi
I happened to be stopping by to post my own question, and I don't know if this is the answer or not, but have you tried adding the argument blank=True to your model field? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#blank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: HttpResponse with FileWrapper with added data

2010-04-09 Thread bfrederi
orrect content length to the response (calculate: original size + prepended data size). Otherwise you won't be able to stream the data properly. On Mar 16, 1:48 pm, bfrederi wrote: > *I know that I should serve static files using a static file server > that was built for doing such,

HttpResponse with FileWrapper with added data

2010-03-16 Thread bfrederi
*I know that I should serve static files using a static file server that was built for doing such, but save me the lecture and indulge me on this please* I am serving large video files (180+MB) through HttpResponse in Django, and returning the file iteratively using Django's FileWrapper: http://co

Re: Django Sites in Admin Forms

2009-12-10 Thread bfrederi
I got advice from someone in the IRC channel to do this: from django.contrib.sites.models import Site def __unicode__(self): return self.name Site.__unicode__ = __unicode__ And it worked. On Dec 9, 6:02 pm, bfrederi wrote: > In one of my models, I have a foreign key to Django

Django Sites in Admin Forms

2009-12-09 Thread bfrederi
In one of my models, I have a foreign key to Django's Site model. When I view my model in admin, it displays the Site entries by their domain (in the __unicode__ method). Is there any way to display the name of the Site instead of the domain in admin? -- You received this message because you are

Re: Custom Authentication Backend

2009-12-03 Thread bfrederi
Well, I started to write a new login for auth, and you are right, it is WAY more trouble than it's worth. I don't think I need anything as big as django-ldap-groups (which is nice), but I am just going to save the users into django's auth user table and just separate out the ldap users in admin I g

Re: Custom Authentication Backend

2009-12-03 Thread bfrederi
I'm not looking to avoid effort. I just don't want a bunch of extra users cluttering up my system if I don't need to. I have no desire for them to exist in my system for any reason. I want to keep the number of django users limited in my system so it is easier to manage them in admin. Thanks for t

Custom Authentication Backend

2009-12-02 Thread bfrederi
I am writing my own custom authentication for AD/ldap and I am trying to authenticate the user without saving the user in the Django User table. I also don't want the user to have to log in every time they want to view something. Is there any way to not save the user in the Django User table and ke

Re: Location of Change User admin template

2009-08-12 Thread bfrederi
Thanks for the help. I accomplished my task. All of the links I posted were exactly what it took to make it work. -Brandon On Aug 12, 1:31 pm, bfrederi wrote: > I found > this:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/adm... > So it looks like it will al

Re: Location of Change User admin template

2009-08-12 Thread bfrederi
I found this: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L192 So it looks like it will allow me to override the template here: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/options.py#L586 So if I can override this effectively: ht

Re: Location of Change User admin template

2009-08-12 Thread bfrederi
hanks, Brandon On Aug 11, 11:13 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < > > > > freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Karen Tracey wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM, bfrederi

Location of Change User admin template

2009-08-11 Thread bfrederi
I was browsing contrib/admin templates for the "Change User" template that allows you to change the user's permissions and such. I can't seem to find it though. Can anyone point me in the right direction? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you a

Re: Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-02 Thread bfrederi
Yes. I completely missed that ticket, but I had switched to importing markdown normally instead of through Django, and it solved my problems. But I noticed on Ubuntu that the repository version of python-markdown is still 1.6. So I will switch to a newer version of Markdown. Thank you both for yo

Re: Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-01 Thread bfrederi
Sorry, didn't mean to post so many replies. A combination of an annoying KVM switch and user error. On Jun 1, 3:19 pm, bfrederi wrote: > I'm getting this: > > Traceback (most recent call last): >   File "/home/django-code/aubrey_explore/tests.py", line 18, in &

Re: Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-01 Thread bfrederi
sition 292: ordinal not in range(128) On Jun 1, 1:49 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, bfrederi wrote: > > > I am having problems using the > > django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.markdown function with > > special characters (diacritics and such)

Re: Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-01 Thread bfrederi
sition 292: ordinal not in range(128) On Jun 1, 1:49 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, bfrederi wrote: > > > I am having problems using the > > django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.markdown function with > > special characters (diacritics and such)

Re: Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-01 Thread bfrederi
sition 292: ordinal not in range(128) On Jun 1, 1:49 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, bfrederi wrote: > > > I am having problems using the > > django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.markdown function with > > special characters (diacritics and such)

Markdown Encoding Problem

2009-06-01 Thread bfrederi
I am having problems using the django.contrib.markup.templatetags.markup.markdown function with special characters (diacritics and such). I am using markdown in my model and creating a function that returns markdown from a model field. I even went as far as to override the save method for my mode

Re: Django Template Hyphenated Keys

2009-02-17 Thread bfrederi
7;Pears'} > > >>> good = dict() > > >>> for k,v in bad.items(): > > >>>    good[k.replace('-','_')] = v > > >>> good > > > {'var_1': 'Apples', 'var_2': 'Pears'} > &g

Django Template Hyphenated Keys

2009-02-16 Thread bfrederi
I have a dictionary of dictionaries that I want to use in a template. Unfortunately some of the keys are hyphenated (I can't change it), so when I try to call them in the template using {{ dictionary.key- name }} it doesn't work: Could not parse the remainder: '-qualifiers' from 'display.vocabula

Django Responses

2009-01-20 Thread bfrederi
I have a general question about creating a response in Django. If I am creating a response using the return django.shortcuts.render_to_response function: return render_to_response( 'template_name.html', {'huge_dictionary_of_data': huge_dictionary_of_data,}, RequestContext(request, {}

Re: Model field order

2008-12-15 Thread bfrederi
Nevermind, I think I found my answer. in the model._meta attribute, there is an attribute called fields (model._meta.fields) that is a list of the fields in the model, in the order in which you defined them. On Dec 15, 10:24 am, bfrederi wrote: > If I've defined a model like so: &

Model field order

2008-12-15 Thread bfrederi
If I've defined a model like so: class comment(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=25) place = models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True) comment = models.TextField() How do I get the order I defined the model fields in, once I have the model object. For instance: m

Re: Overriding admin templates

2008-11-26 Thread bfrederi
It turns out I am having the same issue. I just added on batchadmin and I can't seem to override templates across the entire project (I wanted to add some JQuery to filters.html). How did you solve your problem? On Nov 3, 5:02 am, Lars Stavholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lars Stavholm wrote: >

Re: Caching an image in Django

2008-11-20 Thread bfrederi
My apologies, those tickets are exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9180 http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5589 On Nov 20, 2:40 pm, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think those ticket numbers are correct. Those are dealin

Re: Caching an image in Django

2008-11-20 Thread bfrederi
I don't think those ticket numbers are correct. Those are dealing with forms... not caching. On Nov 20, 2:13 pm, "Ramiro Morales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to cache

Caching an image in Django

2008-11-20 Thread bfrederi
I am trying to cache a small thumbnail image. The code is a bit extensive, but the part this is breaking is that I am opening the image file, then this: cache.set('thumbnail_file', image_file.read()) when I go to retrieve the image with: cache.get('thumbnail_file') I get this traceback: Trace

Re: django google-app-engine appengine backend

2008-09-19 Thread bfrederi
@Adam Fast I think you are right. I'm not at home, so I can't check for sure, but I'm almost positive I completely forgot to add 'appengine_django' to my INSTALLED_APPS. Thank you. @free won I started with app-engine-patch actually, because it was the first patch/helper I came across. But then I

Re: django google-app-engine appengine backend

2008-09-18 Thread bfrederi
Just in case it's any help, this is the tutorial I am using: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/appengine_helper_for_django.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

django google-app-engine appengine backend

2008-09-18 Thread bfrederi
I am trying to get django1.0 running with the google-app-engine SDK. I am using the "Google App Engine Helper for Django" and trying to follow that setup, but I can't seem to get it working. I did a checkout of the helper (svn checkout http://google-app-engine-django.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/), a

Sorting a dict by value for template rendering

2008-05-16 Thread bfrederi
I have a dict that looks similar to this: {'com': 'communication', 'tel': 'telephone', 'cel': 'cellphone', 'fax': 'fax machine',} And I want to sort it by value, and render it in a template. I was able to do it, but in a very hacked way. Can anyone show me a better way to do it than my solution.

Django Names

2008-04-21 Thread bfrederi
I am curious as to what other Django based projects are named something to do with other jazz people (such as Django, Ellington, and Satchmo)? I think it's a cool convention, but those are the only 3 I can think of when I am trying to tell people about it. Thanks, Brandon --~--~-~--~~

Re: CacheMiddleware issue

2008-03-28 Thread bfrederi
gt; > Cheers, > Mike > > On Mar 28, 1:16 pm, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mike, > > > I'm not exactly sure how to do a read and get the file to be cached in > > memory with the middleware. If you look at the links I posted to my > > code

Re: CacheMiddleware issue

2008-03-28 Thread bfrederi
giving Django conflicting requests since you're > saying "Don't load the file into memory, load it lazily" while also > saying "load the entire response into the cache". > > Regards, > Mike > > 1:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/djang

Re: CacheMiddleware issue

2008-03-28 Thread bfrederi
che". > > Regards, > Mike > > 1:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/middleware/... > 2:http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/#controlling-cache-u... > > On Mar 27, 6:13 pm, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I appreciate the he

Re: CacheMiddleware issue

2008-03-27 Thread bfrederi
I appreciate the help Rajesh, I haven't added any special settings for the cachemiddleware, I just placed 'django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware' in my middleware classes and that's it. As far as the low-level caching that I have written into my code using the "from django.core.cache import cac

CacheMiddleware issue

2008-03-27 Thread bfrederi
When I enable CacheMiddleware for site caching (using memcached as my cache backend), I notice that if the page requires opening a file on the file system or over http, that opening the file won't work, and causes problems, the most typical being "ValueError: I/O operation on closed file". I also

Re: Flatpages

2008-03-04 Thread bfrederi
configs are nearly identical, do a diff and see what *is* the > > difference between the two? Are the two running the same django versions? > > > bfrederi wrote: > > > I am using flatpages on a production box, and whenever I don't set > > > DEBUG to True in the se

Re: Flatpages

2008-03-03 Thread bfrederi
al, do a diff and see what *is* the > > difference between the two? Are the two running the same django versions? > > > bfrederi wrote: > > > I am using flatpages on a production box, and whenever I don't set > > > DEBUG to True in the settings.py file, the

Flatpages

2008-03-03 Thread bfrederi
I am using flatpages on a production box, and whenever I don't set DEBUG to True in the settings.py file, the middleware won't redirect to my flatpages for some reason. It gives me a 'TemplateDoesNotExist: 404.html' error message. It works perfectly fine on another box, and the setup for both box

memcached with Django

2008-01-21 Thread bfrederi
I am working with using memcached with Django, and a problem came up. I have memcached running, and using the django.middleware.cache.CacheMiddleware to cache my entire site seems to be working. But when I try to use the low-level api Django way for caching ( http://www.djangoproject.com/documen

Re: memcached

2008-01-18 Thread bfrederi
Sweet, thanks! Do you know how to use the cmemcache library instead of the python- memcached library to do what effbot did? Because I'm pretty sure you can't have both modules, because the Django documentation says to pick ONE. And since they emphasized it, I think they mean it. Also it seems tha

Re: memcached

2008-01-18 Thread bfrederi
> 'memcached', and also your app is named 'memcached'. Maybe try > > renaming your app to 'memcached_status' or something and see if that > > works better. > > > Thanks, > > Eric Florenzano > > > On Jan 18, 12:38 pm, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: memcached

2008-01-18 Thread bfrederi
really throw a newby like me off. So anyway, nevermind on the previous question :) On Jan 18, 12:38 pm, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great, that looks like it will serve its purpose. I am trying to get > it to work, and I am messing it up somehow. I made it into an

Re: memcached

2008-01-18 Thread bfrederi
: Tried memcached_status in module memcached. Error was: 'module' object has no attribute 'memcached_status' Hopefully someone can spot my problem, thanks :) On Jan 18, 11:40 am, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://effbot.org/zone/django-memcached-view.htm &

memcached

2008-01-18 Thread bfrederi
I am using memcached as my backend for cache, but I am not sure how to check the statistics on memcached, to see what it is actually doing. I can tell it is working, but I want to see some actual stats on how well it is working. I've heard there is a "stat" command for memcached, and I tried doing

Re: URL/Request Question

2007-11-19 Thread bfrederi
#x27;ve done it sooner. On Nov 19, 4:22 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 20, 8:09 am, bfrederi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We figured it out by looking in themod_pythonhandler and themod_pythondocs. > > What we were looking

Re: URL/Request Question

2007-11-19 Thread bfrederi
We figured it out by looking in the mod_python handler and the mod_python docs. What we were looking for was in request._req actually (through the mod_python handler), so thanks for that tip. It was the request._req.unparsed_uri attribute. It gives you the unadulterated originally requested url. J

URL/Request Question

2007-11-16 Thread bfrederi
I am currently working with a form persistent identifiers. As part of the persistent system, users can add '?' to the end of the urls to receive a data-only view of the digital object they are trying to link to via the persistent identifier, such as this: Normal view: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/130