help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Hudson
I think I'm making this harder than it should be. Could someone help me out here please? The gist is that I'm trying to display a list of events like the following. I'm getting the error "'offset' is not allowed without 'limit'" which doesn't seem right. I'm thinking someone will spot a much s

Re: help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 01:33 -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > I think I'm making this harder than it should be. Could someone help > me out here please? The gist is that I'm trying to display a list of > events like the following. I'm getting the error "'offset' is not > allowed without 'limit'" which

Re: help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Rob Hudson wrote: >def list(request): >""" >Sets up a list of tuples: (month, list of events) >[("March", [, ]), ("April", [<>])] >""" > > Malcolm has answered your question but I want to add that with Django templates you can do this thing much simpler without two nested loops

Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Anja
Hi, we are thinking about creating a small application with Django and deliver it to our customers. We would like to use Django without a database. Reason: 1) Installation without database is easier 2) Our small application won't use a database, but our own search engine that has a python api. I

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Vladimir Pouzanov
You can use sqlite, fast and easy db interface. On 5/12/06, Anja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > we are thinking about creating a small application with Django and > deliver it to our customers. > We would like to use Django without a database. > Reason: > 1) Installation without database is

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Alexandre CONRAD
Can django run without a DB ? Vladimir Pouzanov wrote: > You can use sqlite, fast and easy db interface. > > On 5/12/06, Anja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi, >>we are thinking about creating a small application with Django and >>deliver it to our customers. >>We would like to use Django with

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Ma
can Django's database-roadmap add XML or CSV ./etc On 5/12/06, Vladimir Pouzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can use sqlite, fast and easy db interface. > > On 5/12/06, Anja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > we are thinking about creating a small application with Django and > > de

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Ma
I think django has automatic CRUD method to any DB object, So, without DB maybe so diffcult on It's archieve . On 5/12/06, Peter Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can Django's database-roadmap add XML or CSV ./etc > > On 5/12/06, Vladimir Pouzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can use sqli

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Django makes use of a database backend for authentication, sessions and so on. I would also advise you to look at sqlite (http://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html). No specific installation except the sqlite shared libraries, and the python bindings (http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite). Do you have a

What queryset for the generic view 'object_detail' ?

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, According to the documentation, the generic view 'object_detail' requires a QuerySet parameter and the object_id. Before MR, it required only a model class and the object_id (more logical to me). What does this QuerySet look like? It works if I use MyModel.objects.all(), but I doubt I need t

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
Hi Anja, On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 03:44 -0700, Anja wrote: > Hi, > we are thinking about creating a small application with Django and > deliver it to our customers. > We would like to use Django without a database. > Reason: > 1) Installation without database is easier > 2) Our small application won

Re: What queryset for the generic view 'object_detail' ?

2006-05-12 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 13:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > According to the documentation, the generic view > 'object_detail' requires a QuerySet parameter and the > object_id. Before MR, it required only a model class and the > object_id (more logical to me). It takes a QuerySet now

Re: Strategies for upgrading production databases?

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i use the command sqlite3 foo.db .schema > foo.sql (or similar for pg) or sqlreset app > foo.sql to create a text version of the schema. foo.sql is versioned by svn and i can easily see diffs. with those diffs i do the ALTER TABLE bar ADD COLUMN something; by hand when needed. --~--~--

Re: Cant open static files on IE

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
propably something related to mime-type of the file? what kind of file do you try to download? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: What queryset for the generic view 'object_detail' ?

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I knew about the consistency between QuerySets and generic views, but I missed the point about laziness (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db_api/#querysets-are-lazy). This seems more logical now. Thanks Malcolm, your explanation saved my day - and my weekend :-) Accédez au courrier él

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Anja
Reason for not using sqlite or not using any database: 1) My application does not need a database, it stores the data in the indexes of a search engine. 2) We would like to deliver that application to some customers. The easier the installation the better. The more steps an installation has the mo

Problems with setup of Django with Apache and mod_python

2006-05-12 Thread Gunnar Wegner
Dear group, sorry for starting another thread on this issue. I am both new to Python and Django. - I have been trying for two days now to transfer a little sample project from the development server to Apache (2.0.54) with mod_python (3.2.8) on OpenSuSE 10.0; following exactly(?) the document

Re: Strategies for upgrading production databases?

2006-05-12 Thread ZebZiggle
Hey, that's a good idea. I was thinking about a nice addition to Django where you would keep your old model files around and offer a few utility classes to do the diff / alter output for you. But your idea is a nice immediate step. Cheers, Sandy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

Re: admin not *seeing* installed app

2006-05-12 Thread arthur debert
Hi Doulgas. It's not db related. Somehow my fcgi script was setting the DJANGO_SETTINGS... env variable on the wrong path. Thanks a lot anyways, arthur --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django us

Re: Cant open static files on IE

2006-05-12 Thread Jonathan Buchanan
On 5/11/06, Gacha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using django with mod_python. When someone using internet explorer > is trying to download some file and in the promt box he chose "Open" > then the file is downloaded, but IE says that the file doesn't exists, > but if chose to "Save" the file

Re: Best practice for separating Model and Control?

2006-05-12 Thread Ned Batchelder
I guess the thing I like the least about the helper module scheme is that it is easy to forget that it is there, and reinvent the wheel.  I thought about experimenting with mixins, so that my model class would derive from my controller class.  It feels a little upside-down, but I think it would

Re: Problems with setup of Django with Apache and mod_python

2006-05-12 Thread Phil Powell
Hi Gunnar,I had a few issues when setting up my first Django project through mod_python, the main tricky bit being the setup of the correct PythonPath variable.  However, seems you've got that right.The only other thing I can think of is that Apache doesn't have permission to access your Django pro

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/12/06, Alexandre CONRAD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can django run without a DB ? Yes, you can use Django without a DB, in the latest development version (trunk). A database connection is required in 0.90 and 0.91, but removing that dependency is one of the many, many improvements we made i

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Karl Fast
Can anyone point me to examples of django apps that either do not use a database, or use it for only part of the app? Looking for source. I'm specifically interested in examples with models that use other persistence backends (like a config file), and the associated views and templates. --~--~-

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/12/06, Karl Fast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone point me to examples of django apps that either do not use > a database, or use it for only part of the app? Looking for source. > > I'm specifically interested in examples with models that use other > persistence backends (like a con

Re: help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Hudson
My inclination was it could be done with a lot less code. Thanks for giving me this. The only thing I had to change was to put all() before order_by b/c I got some error about all() not being a method of the querySet (or something like that). What I'm not clear on is what ifchanged looks at.

Re: help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Hudson
I actually went to the shell and looked at my evts with "dir(evts)" and it looked like a simple list so I thought slicing would be no problem. Thanks for explaining what was really going on. -Rob Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > I suspect we might be seeing this sort of question a bit now. You have

memory error on lighttp deployment (file upload)

2006-05-12 Thread arthur debert
I have an app deployed on lighttpd, but I am getting this memory error. My local codebase runs fine (both on the devserver and on my local lighttpd),which leads me to think it's a server issue. I am hosted on textdrive - we're running lighttp + fcgi. This only happens when uploading large files (

Re: memory error on lighttp deployment (file upload)

2006-05-12 Thread James Bennett
On 5/12/06, arthur debert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This only happens when uploading large files (+1 MB) on the admin > interface. Related: Jason from TextDrive replied to the TXD forum thread on this issue[1] and indicated that it's probably due to the file being stored in memory during uplo

Re: How to prevent a page from being cached?

2006-05-12 Thread Luke Plant
On Thursday 11 May 2006 10:13, PythonistL wrote: > Is there a way how to prevent a page from being cached? from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache @never_cache def myview(request): # etc I'm not sure if it's documented anywhere, I think it is. Luke -- "Mediocrity: It takes

Database replication question

2006-05-12 Thread hernan43
Please forgive my ignorance. I am not the sharpest knife out of the web development drawer. I have a question about database replication as it relates to Django. I used to work at a place that had a somewhat high availability/performance/whatever application where we had a MySQL db replicated acr

Re: Database replication question

2006-05-12 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On 5/12/06, hernan43 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some time ago there was a > thread(http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/d08f4975da831bb/42a458eba506cda9?q=database+replication&rnum=1#42a458eba506cda9) > on the Django list that alluded to adding this type of capabili

Re: Database replication question

2006-05-12 Thread hernan43
Joseph Kocherhans wrote: > It's certainly wanted, but I don't think anyone has worked on it yet. > There's a ticket open at: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1142 Nur. I completely neglected to search the tickets! --Ray --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: Best practice for separating Model and Control?

2006-05-12 Thread pbx
Ned, can you elaborate on what you dislike about combining the field definitions and the helper functions together in one file? As a practical matter I find that I need to have the model at hand to write helper functions, so for that reason alone I've come to appreciate having them all together,

Re: Strategies for upgrading production databases?

2006-05-12 Thread pbx
> I was thinking about a nice addition to Django where you would keep > your old model files around and offer a few utility classes to do the > diff / alter output for you. But your idea is a nice immediate step. There's some discussion of that idea here: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sch

Re: How to prevent a page from being cached?

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Walstad
On Friday 12 May 2006 11:32, Luke Plant wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 10:13, PythonistL wrote: > > Is there a way how to prevent a page from being cached? > > from django.views.decorators.cache import never_cache > > @never_cache > def myview(request): > # etc > > I'm not sure if it's docum

LANGUAGE_CODE and render_to_response?

2006-05-12 Thread Jay Parlar
I'm starting to work on my first Django app, and I'm experiencing some weird behaviour with render_to_response. I have a base template (base.html), that uses LANGUAGE_CODE in the attributes. I currently only have one view: def upload_file(request): manipulator = VsslUpload.AddManipulator(

Re: LANGUAGE_CODE and render_to_response?

2006-05-12 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Jay Parlar wrote: >Is there something about render_to_response that makes it that >LANGUAGE_CODE doesn't get properly populated? > > All those things that are populated in templates automatically work with the help of context processors (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_py

Re: help with view/template data

2006-05-12 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Rob Hudson wrote: >What I'm not clear on is what ifchanged looks at. Does it look at the >for loop and "event", or does it look at what's in the body of >ifchanged? In this case the event.date_from? > > It looks at the string between {% ifchanged %} and {% endifchanged %} no matter how it

Re: LANGUAGE_CODE and render_to_response?

2006-05-12 Thread Jay Parlar
Perfect, thanks so much! Jay P. On 5/12/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jay Parlar wrote: > > >Is there something about render_to_response that makes it that > >LANGUAGE_CODE doesn't get properly populated? > > > > > All those things that are populated in templates automatically

Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread tomass
Installed from subversion. Ran "django-admin.py startproject greenleaftech; cd greenleaftech; python manage.py runserver" and I get the following. Can anyone help out? Thanks, Tom python manage.py runserver Validating models... admin.logentry: 'user' has relation with uninstalled model User adm

Re: Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread James Bennett
On 5/12/06, tomass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Installed from subversion. Ran "django-admin.py startproject > greenleaftech; cd greenleaftech; python manage.py runserver" and I get > the following. Can anyone help out? Run 'python manage.py syncdb'. -- "May the forces of evil become confused o

Re: Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread Joseph Kocherhans
On 5/12/06, tomass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Installed from subversion. Ran "django-admin.py startproject > greenleaftech; cd greenleaftech; python manage.py runserver" and I get > the following. Can anyone help out? > > Thanks, Tom > > > python manage.py runserver > Validating models... > ad

Re: Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread Richie Hindle
[Tom] > admin.logentry: 'user' has relation with uninstalled model User > admin.logentry: 'content_type' has relation with uninstalled model > ContentType I had this problem recently, and it was because I only had 'django.contrib.admin' listed in INSTALLED_APPS, when I also needed its dependenci

Re: One-to-one not to be used?

2006-05-12 Thread Andrew Badstubner
> "The semantics of one-to-one relationships will be changing soon, so we > don't recommend you use them. If that doesn't scare you away, keep > reading." > > It scares me a bit. Can anyone expand on the "changing semantics" or > point me to an existing discussion? +1 I need to use this, and woul

Re: Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread tomass
Okay, so I try python manage.py syncdb and I get: Error: None couldn't be installed, because there were errors in your model: admin.logentry: 'user' has relation with uninstalled model User admin.logentry: 'content_type' has relation with uninstalled model ContentType Here is the contents of my

file upload in 0.91 - form widget connection??

2006-05-12 Thread Frank Miles
As part of my web-app, I would like to allow users to upload files. Towards this end I have a model field: zipfile = meta.FileField(upload_to =".") This has a custom manipulator with the field line: formfields.FileUploadField(field_name="zipfile"), and a template entry of:

Re: file upload in 0.91 - form widget connection??

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Walstad
On Friday 12 May 2006 16:56, Frank Miles wrote: > Am I missing something obvious?  I'd appreciate any insights, including any > specific documentation.  So far, pouring over the docs and user-lists > hasn't yielded the insight I still lack. > > TIA! > -frank Hi Frank, I too amd on 0.91.

Re: Runserver from 0.95 problems

2006-05-12 Thread Eugene Lazutkin
Joseph Kocherhans wrote: > > Looks like you need to add 'django.contrib.contenttypes' and > 'django.contrib.auth' to your INSTALLED_APPS setting. #2.5 in http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/MagicRemovalCheatSheet#URLsandsettings Add additional applications to your INSTALLED_APPS to satisfy depe

Same app for each user

2006-05-12 Thread furtado
I can't figure out a way of using a simple blog app for each user in my project. Ideas? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@googleg

Property fields

2006-05-12 Thread George Sakkis
Is there a way to combine python properties with Django fields so that one can essentially use both regular (persistent) and callable fields transparently ? If the previous sentence didn't make any sense, here's a simplest example: from django.db.models import Model, IntegerField class Foo(Model

Re: Dilemma: code duplication or complexity?

2006-05-12 Thread George Sakkis
> Hi, > > I'm working on a ticket management system (a la Trac) > for in-house applications for my company. I stopped reading here... why reinvent the (trac)wheel ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: Property fields

2006-05-12 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 01:33 +, George Sakkis wrote: > Is there a way to combine python properties with Django fields so that > one can essentially use both regular (persistent) and callable fields > transparently ? If the previous sentence didn't make any sense, here's > a simplest example: >

Re: One-to-one not to be used?

2006-05-12 Thread James Bennett
On 5/12/06, Andrew Badstubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to use this, and would love some more information. Fromwhat I understand, one-to-one relationships will be obsoleted by proper subclassing of models; rather than tying a new model to an old one, you'll just subclass the old. -- "

looking up from foreignkey field

2006-05-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, in 0.91, i have the following models: town - just a name coaches - contains a foreign key to towns I want to get a list of towns which have coaches in them. In sql this would be: "select distinct towns.name, towns.id from towns where towns.id in (select town from coaches)" what is the

Re: Django without database

2006-05-12 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/12/06, Karl Fast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone point me to examples of django apps that either do not use > a database, or use it for only part of the app? Looking for source. > > I'm specifically interested in examples with models that use other > persistence backends (like a confi

Re: Problems with setup of Django with Apache and mod_python

2006-05-12 Thread Gunnar Wegner
Hello, I found the solution: Phil was right in supposing that the apache user did not have access to the directories that my project is located in. A simple 'chmod o+rx -R' on the parent project directory solved my problem. Have a nice weekend, Gunnar :) Am Freitag, 12. Mai 2006 16:11 schrie