Re: weird learning thingie

2006-03-05 Thread tonemcd
I see a lot of thumbnails on the page (looks like a terrific place too!), click on one of them and get a full sized image. I'm using Safari 2.0.3 - ok (also works in Shiira 1.2.1) however Firefox 1.5.0.1 and Camino 1.0 - behaviour you describe Hmm, could be a browser problem? hth Cheers, Tone

RE: Django in a Load-Balanced environment (ORM issues) ...

2006-03-05 Thread Leeuw van der, Tim
Hi, I think both are a form of 'optimistic locking' but I do think that adding a version-column should give better performance, because the WHERE-clause is simplified a lot, not having a potentially large number of expensive string-comparisons (and the data-caching form might give problems with C

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread thebubblejungle
BrandonC wrote: > (r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', > {'document_root': 'path/to/document/root/media', 'show_indexes': > True}), > > As a temporary measure you can add a line like this to your urls.py in > order to serve media when developing, replacing the path line with an > absol

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread layik
I am trying to solve the same problem I have read another comment on the main django page, about {{% extends "BaseOrAnotherTemplate"%}} and I get the message: cannot be extended because BaseOrAnotherTemplate" does not exist! please help! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread thebubblejungle
You might be able to fix that by using myapp/BaseOrAnotherTemplate. I managed to get that part working! Also, if you have a setup like /templates/myapp/ this is why it maybe can't find the file. My urls.py file is: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('ourproject.leagu

Re: Django in a Load-Balanced environment (ORM issues) ...

2006-03-05 Thread ChaosKCW
Yes, true, its a matter of trade offs. With a verison you add irrelavant data to your table schema. But potentially gain some performance. I tend to like my tables clean and relevant. Just a personal preference. Plus it means the locking can work regardless of the table schema. Once you have to

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread layik
thebubblejungle wrote: > You might be able to fix that by using myapp/BaseOrAnotherTemplate. I > managed to get that part working! Also, if you have a setup like > /templates/myapp/ this is why it maybe can't find the file. my directory structure is exactly that way. But it still doesnt accept i

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread thebubblejungle
Have you followed the Django tutorial? Up to page 2? I suggest you do that and see if that helps. I imagine you've just got an incorrect pointer to a directory. That's quite scary that you're at Leeds too! I'm still getting a 404 error now when trying to locate my CSS file = ( this has taken me at

putting a database object in a session

2006-03-05 Thread Jeremy Jones
Is it bad form to put a database object in a session variable? It really just feels wrong, but it works. Typically, I would just put the object's ID in a session variable and retrieve the object when I next needed it, but I accidentally forgot to do ``request.session["this_thing"] = obj.id`` and

Re: Help with Django base template and CSS

2006-03-05 Thread thebubblejungle
Yes! I've done it = ) I added a STATIC_PATH variable to my settings.py which pointed to /static/leaguemanager so that in my templates I can use static/css/style.css to reference a stylesheet. I added this to my urls.py in my leaguemanager directory: from django.conf.settings import STATIC_PATH fr

Weird??!! Attribute Error on Page but not in Shell

2006-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, This is very strange. I am getting an " ArrributeError no attribute named get_list" in the browser, but when I import the model in the shell, get_list works fine. I wonder how I can solve this. The rest of my site and models work fine. Grateful for any assistance. I kind of need to g

Bug: On add_object created date is not retireved

2006-03-05 Thread Siah
Hi, On the following model: class Object(meta.Model): created = meta.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) account = meta.ForeignKey(Account) title = meta.CharField(maxlength=200) ... When I do: new_object = account_obj.add_object(title='foo') My new_object.title=='foo' is True, but

Re: Bug: On add_object created date is not retireved

2006-03-05 Thread Siah
Just incase I wasn't clear, in case I don't refresh the object the error indicates that it can't save the object with 'None' for its created date field. That is, when the object was added, its created date field was not populated. Sia --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

Ordering by a field in a different table

2006-03-05 Thread Jani
Hello, I've run into problems with ordering lists. My models are: class Artist(meta.Model): name = meta.CharField(maxlength=255) class META: ordering = ('name',) admin = meta.Admin() class Record(meta.Model): artist = meta.ForeignKey(Arti

Re: Django in Boo

2006-03-05 Thread bruno modulix
wizeman a écrit : > Hi. I'm just starting to use Django and I'm loving it. > > Don't you think it would be great if Django was ported to Boo ( > http://boo.codehaus.org/ ) ? No. > If you don't know Boo, here are some of the main features: (snip) > - It's compiled, so type mismatches are caught

Re: weird learning thingie

2006-03-05 Thread Nebojša Đorđević
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > i have a site: > http://ootygolfclub.org/web/galls/2/ > this is built using nesh's thumbnails app. On clicking a photo, you > should see full size - but you get a thumbnail. After going back > and forth several times, you do get the full size image. What > gives

Re: putting a database object in a session

2006-03-05 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On 3/5/06, Jeremy Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it bad form to put a database object in a session variable? It > really just feels wrong, but it works. Typically, I would just put the > object's ID in a session variable and retrieve the object when I next > needed it, but I accidentall

Re: Weird??!! Attribute Error on Page but not in Shell

2006-03-05 Thread oggie rob
Why don't you post some code? Nothing is obvious from what you've said -rob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

kicking off a scheduler

2006-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any hooks that I don't know about where I could kick off a scheduler when my project is initialized by Django? I saw a response to another post mentioning to use a system scheduler (cron, etc.). I *could* do this, but would rather use the sched lib. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Tom -

Re: kicking off a scheduler

2006-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot to add that I might resort to calling the scheduler inside settings.py, since I know for sure that file will get evaluated... Any reason why I shouldn't do that? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: Django in Boo

2006-03-05 Thread gabor
wizeman wrote: > Jeremy Dunck wrote: >> IronPython -is- Python, runs on .Net, and is coming along nicely. > > Yes, IronPython is also cool. You know when you look at something and > you say - wow, this is a great idea and it would be great if everyone > realizes that? I had that feeling with Pyth

Re: Django in Boo

2006-03-05 Thread Tom Tobin
On 3/5/06, gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> def f(y): > ... x = y * 3 > ... return x + y > ... > >>> f(5) > 20 > >>> f('_django_') > '_django__django__django__django_' > >>> > > you know...this whole 'static typing' thing is a little a double-edged > sword, isn't it? :)) You k

distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread tgone
Hello, I'm building a search engine to find artists in my database. Naturally, I would like the results to be distinct without the artist names repeated. Here my code: search_results = catalogs.get_values(artist__icontains=form["searchquery"], distinct=True) I read the DB docs but I'm still st

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread tgone
nevermind, I figured it out. Django needs better documentation :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 01:23 +, tgone wrote: > nevermind, I figured it out. > > Django needs better documentation :) So can you post whatever you figure out to this thread as well. Otherwise people are just going to find your original email via a Google search without seeing the answer. If y

Re: date time errors: please explain?

2006-03-05 Thread gizo
With all due respect, this doesn't attend to my question. Why can I use MySQLdb from python to run a date_add query, but not run the same query from Django? I don't see the point in using a workaround for a query that I should be able to call through MySQL --~--~-~--~~---

Re: newbie question about admin module

2006-03-05 Thread mahakala
Hi, Max Many thanks for the reply. I noticed the auto_grow property and has used it. I will try request.user.username and staff_member_required. Thank you! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django use

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread tgone
Malcolm, You make a good point. here is the working code: search_results = catalogs.get_values(fields=['artist'], order_by=['artist'], artist__icontains=form["searchquery"], distinct=True) I forgot to specify the distinct field that I wanted to return (fields=['artist']). Simple mistake. Howev

admin interface with subclasses

2006-03-05 Thread Glenn Tenney
I'm working on adding "user ratings" to my first Django web app. I'm having trouble getting the admin interface to work with subclasses. When I try the following it seems to work... up to a point. In a sh script I create the db and populate with a couple of "places". Then, in admin, when I clic

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 01:46 +, tgone wrote: > Malcolm, > > You make a good point. here is the working code: > > search_results = catalogs.get_values(fields=['artist'], > order_by=['artist'], artist__icontains=form["searchquery"], > distinct=True) > > I forgot to specify the distinct field t

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread tgone
Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > The 'fields' keyword argument is specific to get_values() because it > specifies the fields you want returned. The get_count() method returns > an integer -- you don't get a choice there -- so there is no 'fields' > argument required or permitted, only lookup constraint

Re: kicking off a scheduler

2006-03-05 Thread Ian Holsman
there is no 'functionality' inside of django which does scheduling automatically, or helps you with scheduling. what people are doing is just writing python scripts and then scheduling them via cron. you could possibly also use the event scheduler in mysql 5.1 as well if you like. regards Ian

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 18:06 -0800, tgone wrote: > Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > The 'fields' keyword argument is specific to get_values() because it > > specifies the fields you want returned. The get_count() method returns > > an integer -- you don't get a choice there -- so there is no 'fields'

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
Talking to myself, here; always a bad sign... On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:19 +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 18:06 -0800, tgone wrote: > > Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > > The 'fields' keyword argument is specific to get_values() because it > > > specifies the fields you want

Re: distinct rows problem

2006-03-05 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 3/6/06, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah... it looks like count(distinct(*)) queries are not being > constructed. I just tested the equivalent case in the magic-removal > branch and it's doing the wrong thing there. > > Can you file a ticket about this, please? Then we won'

Fwd: Will Python dominate after Ruby on Rails?

2006-03-05 Thread limodou
I found some interesting ideas in this article. And also an interesting screencast in the blog. http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov Which compared J2EE, Rails, Zope, TurboGears and Django for both hello world and a time tracker. -- I like python! My Blog: http://www.donews.net/limodou N

IntegrityError, Duplicate key, MySQL 5, blank and unique

2006-03-05 Thread johnsu01
Using trunk, I have a model that has a number of fields which are CharFields, that I would like to be optional but if they are filled out, unique. I express this with: tab = meta.CharField(maxlength=15, unique=True, blank=True) Creating the first object in admin with a blank tab field works jus

Built in comments half working, Template-loader postmortem error.

2006-03-05 Thread coulix
Hello, I tried to implement basic free comments into my web apps using the following links : http://www.rossp.org/blog/2006/feb/17/building-blog-django-3/ http://www.dobbes.com/blog/2005/jul/23/django_comments/ I got the "comments post comments" displaying well (check http://ozserver.no-i

Re: Will Python dominate after Ruby on Rails?

2006-03-05 Thread James Bennett
On 3/5/06, limodou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov > > Which compared J2EE, Rails, Zope, TurboGears and Django for both hello > world and a time tracker. If that's the one I saw a little while ago, it's got some serious factual problems -- for example, he

Re: Will Python dominate after Ruby on Rails?

2006-03-05 Thread limodou
On 3/6/06, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/5/06, limodou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov > > > > Which compared J2EE, Rails, Zope, TurboGears and Django for both hello > > world and a time tracker. > > If that's the one I saw a little wh

Re: Built in comments half working, Template-loader postmortem error.

2006-03-05 Thread coulix
It seems to work only with the built in server from manage.py. Something wrong with my apache config ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to djang

MySQL error when running manage.py init on Mac OS X with Fink installed

2006-03-05 Thread Ian
I am trying to run django from svn under Mac OS X 10.4.5 using packages provided by Fink's unstable branch, namely python24, mysql and mysql-client 5.0.16-1, and mysql-python-py24 1.0.1-2. I have followed directions found at http://cavedoni.com/2005/django-osx and am currently attempting the exam

Re: Built in comments half working, Template-loader postmortem error.

2006-03-05 Thread coulix
current solution : ln -s ~/Projects/cefinban/templates/comments /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Django-0.91-py2.4.egg/django/contrib/admin/templates/comments Any better fix .. ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G