Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
Good you asked, I don't know because I couldn't try it yet. This a bit complicated. We are spread across Europe and I don't have the access as admin to the server, so what I am doing is the best I can because then the admin will test it. She set up the apache to restart every hour. So you see, if I

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 08:03 +, Alan wrote: > Good you asked, I don't know because I couldn't try it yet. This a bit > complicated. We are spread across Europe and I don't have the access > as admin to the server, so what I am doing is the best I can because > then the admin will test it. She s

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
I use mac book pro, and I didn't like the way I have to set put apache2 + mod_wsgi in mac osx... poor documentation by the way. I will give a 2nd thought about it. Thanks Malcolm. Alan On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:27, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 08:03 +, Alan wrote: >

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jan 10, 7:32 pm, Alan wrote: > I use mac book pro, and I didn't like the way I have to set put apache2 + > mod_wsgi in mac osx... poor documentation by the way. > I will give a 2nd thought about it. Huh, what are you talking about? The mod_wsgi package builds against Apple supplied Apache

Re: What's the best configuration for Apache + mod_wsgi + nginx

2009-01-10 Thread Stefan Tunsch
It looks like it's clear video conversion is your bottleneck. I would also suggest doing that on a different worker process. You will also want to avoid converting the same file again if you've done it before... I was suggesting to give a shot of using ONLY nginx with Django. If you search in G

Re: django-admin.py not working on Vista

2009-01-10 Thread Eugene Mirotin
You can simply append django's bin directory to your _system_ PATH variable (still the same way as on the earlier versions - through the computer properties - advanced) I do not have my Vista laptop on hand, but I believe, this it what I have done to make it work On Jan 10, 5:55 am, Rex wrote: >

Re: Related articles based on keywords.

2009-01-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Ariel Mauricio Nunez Gomez wrote: >>> In the view for a single article, I would like to be able to pull up >>> related articles based on shared keywords. Just pulling up all the >>> articles that share at least one keyword would be to imprecise. What >>> I'd like

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
Thanks Graham, indeed I was being stupid, I didn't realise that mac leopard holds apache 2.2 now... About docs, where can I find something about apache2 + mac osx + mod_wsgi in http://docs.djangoproject.com or google? All I get is puzzles with missing pieces... OK, I am maybe just being lazy... I

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On Jan 10, 9:37 pm, Alan wrote: > Thanks Graham, indeed I was being stupid, I didn't realise that mac leopard > holds apache 2.2 now... > About docs, where can I find something about apache2 + mac osx + mod_wsgi > inhttp://docs.djangoproject.comor google? All I get is puzzles with > missing pie

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 10:37 +, Alan wrote: > Thanks Graham, indeed I was being stupid, I didn't realise that mac > leopard holds apache 2.2 now... > > > About docs, where can I find something about apache2 + mac osx + > mod_wsgi in http://docs.djangoproject.com or google? All I get is > puzz

Re: first newbie question

2009-01-10 Thread _Sebastian_
juhu, it works... I have to admit after reading my initial post again I could habe been more clear. So here my example & test case which now works with Umapathy S suggestion. I created a model: class Diameter(models.Model): thickener_diameter = models.SmallIntegerField() when I add a few

Re: deploying a project

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
Not hurt Malcolm. In fact I really try to avoid asking at the list, trying to google first, and I really appreciate the work of guys like you and Graham. I confess I don't have the patience enough to run a mailing list. And you guys here are pretty much helpful, like Karen for example, besides you

Re: What's the best configuration for Apache + mod_wsgi + nginx

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
Can't you use crontab to submit your conversion task? Cheers, Alan On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:19, Stefan Tunsch wrote: > > It looks like it's clear video conversion is your bottleneck. > > I would also suggest doing that on a different worker process. > > You will also want to avoid converting t

How relevant django book 1.0 is ?

2009-01-10 Thread timur
Hello! I am newbie in django now reading Django Book at http://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/. As far as I know it covers django version 0.96, not modern releases of 1.* branch. So my questions are: 1) How relevant this book on the 1.* django ? 2) What should I keep in mind while reading this book

Re: How relevant django book 1.0 is ?

2009-01-10 Thread alex.gay...@gmail.com
On Jan 10, 7:22 am, timur wrote: > Hello! > > I am newbie in django now reading Django Book > athttp://www.djangobook.com/en/1.0/. > As far as I know it covers django version 0.96, not modern releases of > 1.* branch. So my questions are: > > 1) How relevant this book on the 1.*  django ? > 2) W

small contenttypes mystery

2009-01-10 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
I've got a Topic model, which is a bit like a category. Then there are TopicItem objects, which have a foreign key to a Topic, and a generic foreign key to anything else in the website, so that I can attach anything to a particular Topic. In my admin site, a few models have a generic inlin

Deleting a session variable

2009-01-10 Thread Michael
Hello, I'm sure this is a easy question. In one of my views I need to delete the session variable 'request.session['percent']'. However, sometimes 'request.session ['percent']' never gets created. When this is the case I get an error when I do 'del request.session['percent']'. How do I check t

reusable apps and dependencies

2009-01-10 Thread uber.ubiwanken...@gmail.com
Hi all, I've created a directory for all my usable apps, configured PYTHONPATH and everything's fine. But I got a problem when some apps release new versions and I want to update them on my hd. Plus, usually I get the svn version of an app to quickly update it. How do you resolve this kind of pro

which class does ####__iexact belong to, where #### is the attribute of a model?

2009-01-10 Thread rabbi
Hi, I'm trying to write a generic filter function do something like following: MyModel.objects.filter( getattr(???,my_dict['search_field'] +'__iexact')=my_dict['search_value'] ) But I don't know what to put in place of '???' Where does 'field__iexact' actually come from? Is it part of MyMo

Re: which class does ####__iexact belong to, where #### is the attribute of a model?

2009-01-10 Thread Christian Joergensen
rabbi wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to write a generic filter function do something like > following: >MyModel.objects.filter( getattr(???,my_dict['search_field'] > +'__iexact')=my_dict['search_value'] ) > > But I don't know what to put in place of '???' > Where does 'field__iexact' actually

Re: Deleting a session variable

2009-01-10 Thread Christian Joergensen
Michael wrote: > Hello, > I'm sure this is a easy question. > > In one of my views I need to delete the session variable > 'request.session['percent']'. However, sometimes 'request.session > ['percent']' never gets created. When this is the case I get an error > when I do 'del request.session['

Re: which class does ####__iexact belong to, where #### is the attribute of a model?

2009-01-10 Thread rabbi
High 5! :-) On Jan 10, 7:30 pm, Christian Joergensen wrote: > rabbi wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to write a generic filter function do something like > > following: > >    MyModel.objects.filter(   getattr(???,my_dict['search_field'] > > +'__iexact')=my_dict['search_value']   ) > > > But I don'

Re: reusable apps and dependencies

2009-01-10 Thread eXt
On 10 Sty, 18:42, "uber.ubiwanken...@gmail.com" wrote: > Hi all, > I've created a directory for all my usable apps, configured PYTHONPATH > and everything's fine. > But I got a problem when some apps release new versions and I want to > update them on my hd. Why? What is the problem? > Plus, usu

Re: reusable apps and dependencies

2009-01-10 Thread uber.ubiwanken...@gmail.com
Sorry, I'm afraid I was not too clear. For example: I've got 2 projects 'myproject1' and 'myproject2' that use django-cms (and django-tinymce and so on...). 'myproject1' use an old version of django-cms, 'myproject2' a new one. In settings.py of my projects I have: INSTALLED_APPS = (

Re: reusable apps and dependencies

2009-01-10 Thread Milan Andric
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, uber.ubiwanken...@gmail.com wrote: > > Sorry, I'm afraid I was not too clear. > For example: > > I've got 2 projects 'myproject1' and 'myproject2' that use django-cms > (and django-tinymce and so on...). > 'myproject1' use an old version of django-cms, 'myproject2

Re: reusable apps and dependencies

2009-01-10 Thread eXt
On 10 Sty, 20:15, "uber.ubiwanken...@gmail.com" wrote: > Sorry, I'm afraid I was not too clear. > What I have to do? How I have to put the new version? > How can I have both versions of django-cms? Use virtualenv! It is what you need :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re

drawing diagrams in django?

2009-01-10 Thread Alistair Marshall
hi folks, I am currently trying to create an app which allows the user to generate flowsheets (of a chemical plant) So far I have created all the basics and allow the user to enter information about the individual unitsw chemicals etc and the user can even run a simulation. what I now want to d

How do I add my template content to my html email?

2009-01-10 Thread Michael
Hello, I able to send an html email using the code below: /// def emaildiscount(request): subject, from_email, to = 'hello', 'u...@domain.com', 'u...@domain.com' text_content = 'This is an important message.' html_content = 'This is an important message.' msg = EmailMultiAlternat

Re: drawing diagrams in django?

2009-01-10 Thread Jeff Hammerbacher
Hey Alistair, For static image generation, I've used pygraphviz ( http://networkx.lanl.gov/pygraphviz/), a Python interface to AT&T's graphviz library. Regards, Jeff On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Alistair Marshall < runninga...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > hi folks, > > I am currently trying

Re: How do I add my template content to my html email?

2009-01-10 Thread alex.gay...@gmail.com
You can create a template and render it the same way you would in a view, checkout the render_to_string function(it's in django.template I believe). Alex On Jan 10, 2:41 pm, Michael wrote: > Hello, > I able to send an html email using the code below: > > /// > > def emaildiscount(request): >  

deploying in server and templates folder is wrong:

2009-01-10 Thread Alan
Hello List, So, using django server por development and my apps were working fine. Now that I got apache2 + mod_wsgi working (on Mac Leopard), when trying to access a page, I always get a error saying "TemplateDoesNotExist" and I can see why, it's looking for templates in $HOME folder (eg. "/Users/

Re: deploying in server and templates folder is wrong:

2009-01-10 Thread Steve Potter
On Jan 10, 3:44 pm, Alan wrote: > Hello List, > So, using django server por development and my apps were working fine. Now > that I got apache2 + mod_wsgi working (on Mac Leopard), when trying to > access a page, I always get a error saying "TemplateDoesNotExist" and I can > see why, it's looki

Where are all the Django jobs?

2009-01-10 Thread David Lindquist
First, I understand that the world economy is in a slump, and that the job market as a whole has not fared well of late. But even before the recent downturn, I noticed that there are precious few jobs in Django development (yes, I know about DjangoGigs.com). A simple keyword search on popu

Re: How relevant django book 1.0 is ?

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Amico
And there's a new version in the works: http://holovaty.com/blog/archive/2009/01/09/0133 I found the book was good for getting a broader explanation of certain concepts, especially when I first started with Django. On Jan 10, 5:22 am, timur wrote: > Hello! > > I am newbie in django now reading

Re: drawing diagrams in django?

2009-01-10 Thread aastrand
On Jan 10, 9:41 pm, Alistair Marshall wrote: > hi folks, > > I am currently trying to create an app which allows the user to > generate flowsheets (of a chemical plant) > > So far I have created all the basics and allow the user to enter > information about the individual unitsw chemicals etc a

Re: Where are all the Django jobs?

2009-01-10 Thread Ashish
My opinion, RoR was just right there when people were getting frustated with java and perl and it was very well marketed hence much wider adoption. now Ruby has another framework - MERB which is gaining traction. Django is like RoR + MERB + more based on presentations I have seen on RoR and MERB

What is Django/python equivalent of this - Display textarea content with line breaks in html page?

2009-01-10 Thread zweb
Javascript: document.getElemnetById(’textareacontent’).value.replace(/\n/ g,’’); PHP: preg_replace(”/\n/”,””,$_REQUEST['t1']); Ruby: (teaxtareacontent).gsub(/\n/,””) ( reference - http://rkutti.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/display-textarea-content-with-line-breaks-in-html-page/) --~--~-~--

Re: What is Django/python equivalent of this - Display textarea content with line breaks in html page?

2009-01-10 Thread Brian Neal
On Jan 10, 8:13 pm, zweb wrote: > Javascript: > document.getElemnetById(’textareacontent’).value.replace(/\n/ > g,’’); > PHP: > preg_replace(”/\n/”,””,$_REQUEST['t1']); > Ruby: > (teaxtareacontent).gsub(/\n/,””) > > ( reference > -http://rkutti.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/display-textarea-content-w

Collapsed fieldsets in admin without h2

2009-01-10 Thread degei
Hi all, extreme Django newbie here (trying it out for the first time today) so I apologize in advance if my question turns out to be stupid. I was running through the intro tutorial and reached the "Customize the admin form" section (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/ tutorial02/#customi

Form object has no attribute 'save' ( form.is_bound returns true )

2009-01-10 Thread Dmitri13
Hi Guys, I am unable to save to table TEST_QST ,it returns error QstForm object has no attribute 'save' I have confirmed that form.is_bound returns true form.is_valid returns true I have included my code in this post Please asssit #MODEL - class TEST_TYPE(models.Model

Model Updates. use save() or signals

2009-01-10 Thread juice
I am having trouble with setting up a pre_save signal. I want to be able to set a location in a model instance, but only have 1 entry at any time. I thought about just overriding the save, and adding an update something like: def save(sefl): oa = Article.objects.filter(location=self.location)

Re: Where are all the Django jobs?

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 15:38 -0700, David Lindquist wrote: > First, I understand that the world economy is in a slump, and that > the job market as a whole has not fared well of late. But even before > the recent downturn, I noticed that there are precious few jobs in > Django development (ye

Re: Form object has no attribute 'save' ( form.is_bound returns true )

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 21:38 -0800, Dmitri13 wrote: > Hi Guys, > I am unable to save to table TEST_QST ,it returns error QstForm > object has no attribute 'save' > I have confirmed that > form.is_bound returns true > form.is_valid returns true > I have included my code in this post [...] > # Cre

Re: Model Updates. use save() or signals

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 22:26 -0800, juice wrote: > I am having trouble with setting up a pre_save signal. I want to be > able to set a location in a model instance, but only have 1 entry at > any time. I thought about just overriding the save, and adding an > update something like: > > def save(se

Re: drawing diagrams in django?

2009-01-10 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 12:58 -0800, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote: > Hey Alistair, > > For static image generation, I've used pygraphviz > (http://networkx.lanl.gov/pygraphviz/), a Python interface to AT&T's > graphviz library. pydot is another Python library for working with Graphviz. Whichever one yo