Re: TypeError: Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains

2009-01-22 Thread Alessandro Ronchi
2009/1/21 Karen Tracey : > Egads, they're huge. Any way you could cut that down to a small failing > example? Or at least mention which model you are trying the search on? > Also a traceback instead of just the last error message would probably help, > as it might give some clue where to start

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 19:38 -0800, Keyton Weissinger wrote: > OK. I figured it out and it was VERY STRANGE. Maybe some one reading > this can tell me WWWHHHYYY my solution works. For now, it's voodoo to > me... You're going to kick yourself after this. The reason for the failure turns out to be r

Re: Need help changing the ordering of a queryset stored in session

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:40 -0800, Brandon Taylor wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I need to do some table sorting and paging. To reduce trips to the DB, > I'm storing my initial queryset in a session using the file system > backend for local development. > > I was thinking I might be able to use the d

Re: How to send custom value to the SelectMultiple Widget

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 21:41 -0800, Lee wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I have some trouble in SelectMultiple Widget. The detailed information > is that: > > In the form.py, I have defined a TestForm which contain a > SelectMultiple Widget called selection > > #form.py > class TestForm(forms.Form): >

Re: How can i use "Django Admin" part sortable in my project?

2009-01-22 Thread jai_python
Do any one know how to do it? Thanks in advance Jayapal --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 unsubscribe from thi

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Webchemist
This is exactly my situation, when I started to work under drugme.ru - this is rather big Russian social network website, Berco Beute: > - Stack. What would currently be a good combination webserver/protocol/ > database? Possible options: Lighttpd, Cherokee, apache, FastCGI, > mod_python, wsgi,

Re: Context and Variable.resolve

2009-01-22 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On 22 jan, 01:59, Andrew Ingram wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm writing the render method of a template tag, and I want to make the > format of the tokens quite flexible. > > I have a dict of args, some in the format 'string', some just numbers > like 50 and others references to context variables. I am

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
This is a pretty good response. There are a couple of points where a different point of view might be interesting, however. I've added some extra things, below. On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 01:06 -0800, Webchemist wrote: > This is exactly my situation, when I started to work under drugme.ru - > this is

Caught an exception while rendering: 'Product' object has no attribute 'serializable_value'

2009-01-22 Thread Thiago F. Crepaldi
Hello, i have a model called FEATURE, where a "PRODUCT" charfield(50) existed. Yesterday I created a PRODUCT model and updated FEATURE model to use that foreign key. However, when a form to view the FEATURE data is called through a template, an error on line 27 occurs: Caught an exception while

Re: Caught an exception while rendering: 'Product' object has no attribute 'serializable_value'

2009-01-22 Thread Thiago F. Crepaldi
Traceback: File "C:\PYTHON25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 86. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "C:\PYTHON25\Lib\site-packages\django\contrib\auth\decorators.py" in __call__ 67. return self.view_f

Re: Context and Variable.resolve

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hm, I thought that's what I had tried, obviously I was doing something slightly wrong. Oh well, it works now. Thanks for your help :) bruno desthuilliers wrote: > As often with Python, the simplest thing to do is to fire a Python > shell and explore the problem: > > from django import

Re: How to send custom value to the SelectMultiple Widget

2009-01-22 Thread Lee
Hi, Malcolm Thanks for you reply. However, I'm still not clear. My code is : from django import forms class TestForm(forms.Form): title = forms.CharField( max_length=10 ) selection = forms.CharField( widget=forms.Select ) f = TestForm(initial={"title": 'Test', 'selection':{'1':'a','2':'b'

Re: ManyToManyFieldManager in post_save signal

2009-01-22 Thread Alessandro
2008/10/12 Alex Koshelev : > > There is not way track M2M field change with post_save signal. You can > write your own derived M2M field class with needed hooks. > > On Oct 12, 9:01 pm, Viktor wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have three simple models Project and Member, where Project.member is >> a ManyToMa

Re: How to send custom value to the SelectMultiple Widget

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 03:54 -0800, Lee wrote: > Hi, Malcolm > > Thanks for you reply. However, I'm still not clear. > > My code is : > > from django import forms > > class TestForm(forms.Form): > title = forms.CharField( max_length=10 ) > selection = forms.CharField( widget=forms.Select )

Re: Compare the fields of the same model

2009-01-22 Thread Costin Stroie
I have implemented a very basic Q object. Under controlled conditions, it works great. Here it is: class QCompare(models.Q): """ QCompare object allows you to compare two fields of one or two models Example: queryset.filter(QCompare('>', Model1, 'field1', Model2, 'field2')) """

Re: How to send custom value to the SelectMultiple Widget

2009-01-22 Thread Lee
Thanks a lot. I'd like to pass the dynamic value to the choices, like what you said in the last situation. Could you please give me some more instructions, I'm new in python and django. regards Lee On Jan 22, 11:21 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 03:54 -0800, Lee wrote

why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, wrt django documentation, why not load the index first - on the left? Also it would be helpful if the following links are at the top of the index: Search * Latest * 1.0 * 0.96 * All Browse * Prev: django.contrib.webdesign * Next: django-admin.py and manage.py

Re: why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 18:31 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > wrt django documentation, why not load the index first - on the left? Do you mean the thing labelled as "general index"? It would use up valuable horizontal screen real-estate without adding a lot of value. On every single pag

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Almad
Well, I'd like to write some docs first, but hey ,) I'm developing something on top of nose, to express my feelings, I call it django-sane-testing. Grab nose 0.10 and sane testing from http://devel.almad.net/trac/django-sane-testing/wiki/Releases and enjoy usual nose features (test selection, pro

Re: How to send custom value to the SelectMultiple Widget

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 04:58 -0800, Lee wrote: > Thanks a lot. > > I'd like to pass the dynamic value to the choices, like what you said > in the last situation. > > Could you please give me some more instructions, I'm new in python and > django. I've given you a code fragment already to show ho

update_object acting strangely

2009-01-22 Thread bax...@gretschpages.com
I think this just started, and may be related to updating to 1.0.2. Lately I've noticed update_object not updating properly. In particular, I've noticed boolean fields changing. For example, I'll have an "approved" field that's True, but when the user update the info, "approved" is changing to Fal

How do i display a count of items related to a model?

2009-01-22 Thread Gath
In Django how can i return the total number of items (count) that a related to another model, e.g the way stackoverflow.com does a list of questions then on the side it shows the count on the answers related to that question. This is easy if i get the questionid, i can return all answers related

Re: ManyToManyField in both models

2009-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Ivanov (powerfox)
On Jan 22, 1:20 am, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > How is it wrong that when you want a custom form you have to actually > write some code? Django cannot read your mind. It cannot possibly > accommodate every single use-case of every person on the planet out of > the box. It's designed to be exten

Re: How do i display a count of items related to a model?

2009-01-22 Thread ltcstyle
Are you sure it is not just a property of that question class? Storing a count property for that answers, and increase it every time got new response? It would be faster than go through the entire db for each question. I am just guessing. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Gath wrote: > > In Dja

Re: why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 22 Jan 2009 6:48:11 pm Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > I think you have not described whatever problem it is that you're trying > to solve particularly well. "Index" has at least three different > meanings for the documentation. I'm assuming you mean the content index > (/dev/genindex/), b

Problem with django-tagging and with_all/with_any

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Ingram
Hi all, I'm using django-tagging for a Banner model and since it's fairly widely used I thought some people here may be able to help. I want to achieve two things: find all the Banners related to ALL of a list of tags, and final all the Banners related to ANY of a list of tags This is my bann

Re: I don't even know where to begin writing this template-tags

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Ingram
That works great, thanks! bruno desthuilliers wrote: > http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1293/ > This may help: --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send

Re: why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 19:17 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 22 Jan 2009 6:48:11 pm Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > I think you have not described whatever problem it is that you're trying > > to solve particularly well. "Index" has at least three different > > meanings for the document

Re: Convert iso-8859-1 queryset to utf-8

2009-01-22 Thread Polat Tuzla
You may also want to make sure that you know whether your Flash/ ActionScript components require UTF-8 with BOM (Byte-order Mark) or not. Let me try to explain more clearly: In my case, I had i18n problems when a flash component rendered my utf-8 encoded templates. I had saved my templates as utf

Re: why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 22 Jan 2009 7:31:07 pm Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > But please do understand that this isn't a > change that is necessarily universally better for everybody. It does > harm the content presentation, for example. ok - I wont raise this again - but please check out the comments on the I

trying unsuccessfully to access django admin

2009-01-22 Thread bconnors
when I typed in: http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ I got: Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\servers \basehttp.py", line 278, in run self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response) File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\django\core\s

Re: trying unsuccessfully to access django admin

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Herndon
Well, first things first: set DEBUG=True in your settings. The traceback you got there is saying there's an HTTP 500 error somewhere, so it's looking for a 500.html template to use to display that error. Django only tries to show that page if you have set DEBUG=False. In this case, you need to

Re: Multiple managers for reverse-links between subclasses

2009-01-22 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Mackenzie Kearl wrote: > > On Jan 21, 11:14 am, Aneurin Price wrote: >> (Apologies for the vague subject; I couldn't think how to summarise this :P) >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have an application where some models are inherited from others, like so: >>Foo >>

Performance using session, passing data from one request to another, use js or not? Best practice?

2009-01-22 Thread Tim Daniel
Hi django-pros, I'm nearly finishing my django web-app and I've got some questions: 1. I'm using pagination: from django.core.paginator import Paginator, and then handling it all by myself, I do not want to use any other modules or snipetts or so on. I'm using it to paginate the result of a query

OS X problem with an egg (maybe!)

2009-01-22 Thread arbi
Hello every one, I am a new member in the Django community... But very beginner. I spent my whole day yesterday trying to run the "python manage.py syncdb" key but no success. I looked at many forums and this post seemed to be nice : http://www.mangoorange.com/2008/08/01/installing-python-mysqldb

Setting a field based on foreign key data

2009-01-22 Thread jason.t.stein
Perhaps this is an sql question, and not a Django question so please have patience. I am writing a student management app that keeps track of student events. The relevant tables are: class Student(models.Model): first_name = models.CharField(max_length=32) last_name = models.CharField(max_len

Re: MultiValueDictKeyError when accessing POST items

2009-01-22 Thread workingbird
"login_username" should be the attribute named "name", not "id". On Dec 23 2008, 11:03 am, DragonSlayre wrote: > I've created my own form: > > >   Login: >   Username: >   >   Password: >   >   > > > I am mappying /accounts/login/ to a view of mine, which is then > calling: > > if request.

Re: Ongoing problems with django-registration installation.

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
Django 1.0/django-registration .07 problems continue *** Issue 1 - No module named urls occuring during registration form completion. Via the methodology listed by Karen above I was able to trace my missing url

How to use turbogears widget on Django?

2009-01-22 Thread issin
I want to use FusionCharts on Django, and I know a widget TGFusionCharts for turbogears. How to use it for Django? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

Re: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE confusion

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
creecode: I've tried your 2 suggestions with one with no results, and the second suggestion perhaps i did not understand enough of where the code should go to make it work. ** Trigger adding instanc

Re: Multiple images in form

2009-01-22 Thread A Melé
DragonSlayre, django-thumbs fields act exactly the same way as any ImageField (the inherit from ImageFIeld), so they can be blank and null. That shouldn't be a problem. Regards, Antonio Melé http://django.es/blog/ On 20 ene, 19:21, DragonSlayre wrote: > Yeah, I had to add a related_name to m

Re: Port large webapp from PHP to Django: tips, experiences, links needed

2009-01-22 Thread Dj Gilcrease
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:17 AM, Berco Beute wrote: > - Stack. What would currently be a good combination webserver/protocol/ > database? Possible options: Lighttpd, Cherokee, apache, FastCGI, > mod_python, wsgi, mysql, progress... I realize there is no 'best' > solution, but I would like to hear

Python Web Development/ Programmers with Django_Mumbai

2009-01-22 Thread Maple Solutions
Only Candidates from Mumbai/ India candidates can apply We are having an Urgent opening for a leading MNC. We are looking for Python Web Development/ programmers with Django. LOCATION: Mumbai/ Andheri (E) Looking for a quick response! Talk to us on 9820160656 and send your CV's with your curren

Re: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE confusion

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
Although unmentioned in the django-registration docs, reading the django-profiles code I see a method called create_profile...which is intended for this purpose, for now I'll try giving that a try. def create_profile(request, form_class=None, success_url=None, template_name='p

Re: Ongoing problems with django-registration installation.

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
It seems to me the that automatic mechanism mentioned in the docs does not exist in django-registration but in its component django-profiles, reading the source code I see this... def create_profile(request, form_class=None, success_url=None, template_name='profiles/create_pro

Re: TypeError: Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains

2009-01-22 Thread Karen Tracey
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Alessandro Ronchi < alessandro.ron...@soasi.com> wrote: > > 2009/1/21 Karen Tracey : > > > Egads, they're huge. Any way you could cut that down to a small failing > > example? Or at least mention which model you are trying the search on? > > Also a traceback inst

Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread john
No matter what i do i can't get my css to load. 100% Frustrated with Django. My index page loads when i request http://127.0.0.1:8000/ but it is not styled. Django dev server returns 404 in console for "GET / css/styles.css HTTP/1.1" In my base template i have: In my urls.py I have: urlpatterns

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread David Zhou
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:53 AM, john wrote: > > No matter what i do i can't get my css to load. 100% Frustrated with > Django. My index page loads when i request http://127.0.0.1:8000/ but > it is not styled. Django dev server returns 404 in console for "GET / > css/styles.css HTTP/1.1" Try do

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread Dj Gilcrease
change to Dj Gilcrease OpenRPG Developer ~~http://www.openrpg.com On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM, john wrote: > > No matter what i do i can't get my css to load. 100% Frustrated with > Django. My index page loads when i request http://127.0.0.1:8000/ but > it is not styled. Django dev serv

Re: Performance using session, passing data from one request to another, use js or not? Best practice?

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Guettler
Tim Daniel schrieb: > I read something that it would be more > efficient to store only the query and doing pickle?? I don't know how > to do that, I've been looking in the docs and other posts but no clear > explanation. So what I really want to know: which is the best way of > handling this probl

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread john
Thanks but no change. On Jan 22, 11:02 am, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > change > > to > > > Dj Gilcrease > OpenRPG Developer > ~~http://www.openrpg.com > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:53 AM, john wrote: > > > No matter what i do i can't get my css to load. 100% Frustrated with > > Django. My index pag

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread Puneet Madaan
beside you need to correct settings.py to SETTINGS_FILE_FOLDER = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath(__file__)) On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, john wrote: > > Thanks but no change. > > On Jan 22, 11:02 am, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > > change > > > > to > > > > > > Dj Gilcrease > > OpenRPG Develo

Re: Convert iso-8859-1 queryset to utf-8

2009-01-22 Thread matehat
You can also replace the following steps by the 'render_to_string' shortcut method available in the 'django.template.loader' module: > - explicitely load the template > - render it and store the result then, as bruno indicated, just reencode and serve :) --~--~-~--~~~

running shell commands from a file

2009-01-22 Thread Tonu
I am trying to write a small program that imports delicious bookmarks into the Django project's database. When I try the commands using manage.py shell , then they work, but when I put the commands into a file "feed.py" and try them I receive an error: " ImportError: No module named django_bookma

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread john
Thanks but no change. On Jan 22, 11:30 am, Puneet Madaan wrote: > beside href="{MEDIA_URL}css/styles.css"> > you need to correct settings.py to > > SETTINGS_FILE_FOLDER = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath(__file__)) > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, john wrote: > > > Thanks but no change

Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread May
Hello, I'm trying to set up the Apache server with mod_python. The Apache server works, until I had the following code to the bottom of http.conf file: SetHandler python-program PythonPath “['C:/django'] + sys.path” PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mypr

Re: Need help changing the ordering of a queryset stored in session

2009-01-22 Thread Brandon Taylor
Thanks Malcom, Looks like sorted in combination with the operator module is the key to my problem. Now I can do: import operator vehicle_list = Vehicle.objects.all().select_related(depth=1) vehicles = list(sorted(vehicle_list, key=operator.attrgetter ('model_year or whatever'))) ...and do vehi

Re: Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread May
Ad addendum to message: This is a windows XP server. May On Jan 22, 8:55 am, May wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up the Apache server with mod_python.  The Apache > server works, until I had the following code to the bottom of > http.conf file: > > SetHandler python-program > PythonPath

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread Puneet Madaan
well at my side it works well on both *nix and windoof platforms... here is what I use on my projects... settings.py -- import platform import os PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath(__file__)) MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'static') --- urls.py ---

Re: Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread Tonu
I wonder if you need SetHandler None? Try eliminating those two lines. Other source of information for troubleshooting is apache error log file. Tonu On Jan 22, 10:55 am, May wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up the Apache server with mod_python.  The Apache > server works, until I had th

Re: Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread May
Hello Tonu, Yes, I tried that as well and still the server won't start. Thanks, May On Jan 22, 9:01 am, Tonu wrote: > I wonder if you need SetHandler None?  Try eliminating those two > lines.  Other source of information for troubleshooting is apache > error log file. > > Tonu > > On Jan 22,

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread Dj Gilcrease
Sorry that should be {{MEDIA_URL}} Dj Gilcrease OpenRPG Developer ~~http://www.openrpg.com On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Puneet Madaan wrote: > beside you need to correct settings.py to > > SETTINGS_FILE_FOLDER = os.path.dirname( os.path.abspath(__file__)) > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5

Re: Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread Karen Tracey
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, May wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to set up the Apache server with mod_python. The Apache > server works, until I had the following code to the bottom of > http.conf file: > > SetHandler python-program > PythonPath "['C:/django'] + sys.path" If this is a li

Re: Apache server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread May
Oh, Thank you, Karen!! Yes, that was the problem. May On Jan 22, 9:12 am, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:55 AM, May wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I'm trying to set up the Apache server with mod_python.  The Apache > > server works, until I had the following code to the bottom of

problems getting urls to import

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
Looking at mysite.myproject.urls I have... urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^profiles/', include ('profiles.urls')), ) But can't get the profiles.urls to import My URLconf list includes # ^accounts/ ^activate/(?P\w+)/$ # ^accounts/ ^login/$ # ^accounts/ ^logout/$ # ^accounts/ ^register/$ # ^acco

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread john
ah ok. good catch. My MEDIA_ROOT = C:\dev\proj. But my media directory is actually in my app directory, one directory down. I fixed MEDIA_ROOT to equal C:\dev\proj\app and still not having any luck. my use of -\ in directory structure example is just to indicate a folder in directory tree. Let me

Re: Recommendation on understanding CSS

2009-01-22 Thread Skylar
I think getting the firebug plug-in for firefox and playing around and looking at other people's code has been most beneficial to me recently. On Jan 21, 3:52 am, Gath wrote: > Guys, > > Its seems the best way to do templates in Django is via plain html and > css, but am having a problem in unde

Re: Cannot serve static files

2009-01-22 Thread john
Ok finally got it. David Zhou above, earlier mentioned adding static file directory to css link (ie, ) but when i did that it didn't work. I must have had something wrong somewhere else. Anyway, i made some more changes after reading info here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/446026/django-how

Re: Model.save() vs. ManyToMany

2009-01-22 Thread David Gordon
I'll try simplifying the example further in case anyone is able to help... > Here's the problem code: class Xeme(models.Model):    text = models.CharField(max_length=150, db_index=True)    components = models.ManyToManyField(         'self', symmetrical=False, blank=True,         related_name=

Anyway to see full UrlConf list of available imported urls?

2009-01-22 Thread NoviceSortOf
* Is there a way to see a full URLConf list of all the imported URLs, in an application? This seems it would be a big debuging help. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post

Announcing release of WoodRanch Agile Projects written in Django

2009-01-22 Thread Ashish Gupta
Hi All, I am pleased to announce the release of Agile Software Project and Product Management tool - WoodRanch Agile Projects (WRAP), written in Django. http://wrap.woodranchtech.com Please register here http://wrap.woodranchtech.com/register/ for the free trial. It is a pleasure developing

mod python child server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread May
Hello, I set up a windows XP(python 2.5, apache 2.2) startproject called myprograms and used this code in http.conf (this works and server starts): SetHandler python-program PythonPath "['C:/django'] + sys.pat" PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE myprograms

Re: Recommendation on understanding CSS

2009-01-22 Thread phoebebright
If you have a Mac I recommend CSSEdit which allows you to analyse the css that applies to each element on a page (locally or online) and changes show immediately. On Jan 21, 8:52 am, Gath wrote: > Guys, > > Its seems the best way to do templates in Django is via plain html and > css, but am hav

run function on session.flush()

2009-01-22 Thread Abe
I would like to run a function (in my case, send an email summarizing recent activity) when a user logs out *or* when their session expires. Is there an easy way to do it without making a new version of the Session class? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this me

Confused by error messages

2009-01-22 Thread phoebebright
I managed to set debug to false and spend an hour trying to understand this error: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/ python2.5/site-packages/django/template/defaulttags.py", line 880, in load (taglib, e)) TemplateSyntaxError: 'openid_tags' is not a valid tag lib

Facebook-like functionality for an Intranet

2009-01-22 Thread Rodrigo C.
I need to create an Intranet for a client. I would like to include some facebook-like functionality, such as being able to create and join networks, setting permissions based on membership in said networks, being notified when a friend or someone in your network updates his status, writes somethin

Re: Facebook-like functionality for an Intranet

2009-01-22 Thread Ramdas S
http://pinaxproject.com/ On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Rodrigo C. wrote: > > I need to create an Intranet for a client. I would like to include > some facebook-like functionality, such as being able to create and > join networks, setting permissions based on membership in said > networks, bein

Fixtures in production use - best practices

2009-01-22 Thread Delta20
Fixtures are geared towards unit testing; I'm wondering if they are considered a good way to populate the database with some initial default values. For example, say we have a model TicketState, and the applications must be guaranteed to have two TicketStates representing the states "Open" and "C

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

2009-01-22 Thread Keyton Weissinger
Hi Malcolm, Thank you VERY much for taking the time to explain this to me. It makes perfect sense and since yesterday I've delved a bit deeper (than ever) into the django code itself to understand a little more. You are ABSOLUTELY right to point out that I'm in user-beware country. I don't apolog

The SQL "IN" operator

2009-01-22 Thread Mihai Bazon
First off, hi everybody! ;-) I'm new to Python and I'm new to Django. Just testing things out for now. I have a huge experience with Perl but I'm getting fed up with the overloaded syntax and all those "$"-s and "@"-s and "%"-s and "@{ $ }"-s etc. (though I sometimes miss them in Python, but t

Re: Admin list exclusions

2009-01-22 Thread szunyog
Hi, You should create an admin class and override its queryset method. Something like this: class EntryAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin): ... def queryset(self, request): qs = qs = super(EntryAdmin, self).queryset(request) qs = qs.filter(specify your filter criteri

Re: Recommendation on understanding CSS

2009-01-22 Thread rknobelspies
If learning-by-doing is your thing I would recommend having a look at www.nettuts.com and especially the css tutorials: http://nettuts.com/tutorials/site-builds/from-psd-to-html-building-a-set-of-website-designs-step-by-step/ http://nettuts.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/how-to-theme-any-cms-using-

Re: TypeError: Related Field has invalid lookup: icontains

2009-01-22 Thread Alessandro Ronchi
2009/1/22 Karen Tracey : > Ah, you have in your search_fields for SchedaBilancioGenereOptions > 'impresa', which is a ForeignKey. You need to specify what field within the > related model you want to search, so 'impresa__fieldname'. (If there are > multiple fields you need to list each explicit

Re: The SQL "IN" operator

2009-01-22 Thread szunyog
> But how can I do the following?: > >   p = Page.objects.filter(tags in [ 'Tag1', 'Tag2' ]) > > (of course it doesn't work, but it hopefully explains what I need..) check this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#in Regards, Tibor --~--~-~--~~~

Re: run function on session.flush()

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:55 -0800, Abe wrote: > I would like to run a function (in my case, send an email summarizing > recent activity) when a user logs out *or* when their session > expires. Is there an easy way to do it without making a new version > of the Session class? No. Regards, Malcol

Re: install django on a shared host, with fastcgi

2009-01-22 Thread anode
I've managed to successfully install django running fcgi on my shared host, but I've got to warn you, it's not usually an easy path. Took me ages. It's usually much, much easier to use a django-friendly host such as webfaction, but anyway, here a couple of points from a non-expert. 1) Are you ty

Re: How do i display a count of items related to a model?

2009-01-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Gath wrote: > > In Django how can i return the total number of items (count) that a > related to another model, e.g the way stackoverflow.com does a list of > questions then on the side it shows the count on the answers related > to that question. > > This is eas

Re: Setting a field based on foreign key data

2009-01-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:57 PM, jason.t.stein wrote: > > Perhaps this is an sql question, and not a Django question so please > have patience. I am writing a student management app that keeps track > of student events. The relevant tables are: > > class Student(models.Model): > first_name = mo

Disabling middleware for tests

2009-01-22 Thread davenaff
What is the best way to disable a specific middleware when running django tests? This ticket was designated wontfix, so I get test failures on the auth tests every time I run our test suite: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9172#comment:12 I'd prefer not to have to edit settings.py every tim

Re: problems getting urls to import

2009-01-22 Thread davenaff
the urlpatterns += line looks right, but I don't really know what you're doing with the # lines. Could you post the full mysite.myproject.urls file? On Jan 22, 9:18 am, NoviceSortOf wrote: > Looking at mysite.myproject.urls I have... > > urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^profiles/', include > ('p

Re: Fixtures in production use - best practices

2009-01-22 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:31 AM, Delta20 wrote: > > Fixtures are geared towards unit testing; I'm wondering if they are > considered a good way to populate the database with some initial > default values. > > For example, say we have a model TicketState, and the applications > must be guaranteed

Re: Pickling a dictionary into a PostgreSQL database?

2009-01-22 Thread teth
Thank you for the tip. I was actually in the middle of debugging a problem which I think may have been solved by this post. I used urlsafe_b64encode() and urlsafe_b64decode because a URL cannot contain any non-ASCII characters (can it?). I could also have used the normal b64 functions, but I wante

Re: Setting a field based on foreign key data

2009-01-22 Thread jason.t.stein
After a preliminary reading of your answer, the second solution seems like what I am trying to do. Basically this is a simple Track and Field competition manager, and one year a student will compete as a midget and get a result for the 100m dash, and the next year compete as a junior and get a res

Re: why not load the index first?

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 19:46 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 22 Jan 2009 7:31:07 pm Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > But please do understand that this isn't a > > change that is necessarily universally better for everybody. It does > > harm the content presentation, for example. > > o

Re: Convert iso-8859-1 queryset to utf-8

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 06:16 -0800, Polat Tuzla wrote: > You may also want to make sure that you know whether your Flash/ > ActionScript components require UTF-8 with BOM (Byte-order Mark) or > not. > > Let me try to explain more clearly: > In my case, I had i18n problems when a flash component re

Re: mod python child server won't start

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:01 -0800, May wrote: > Hello, > > I set up a windows XP(python 2.5, apache 2.2) startproject called > myprograms and used this code in http.conf (this works and server > starts): > > SetHandler python-program > PythonPath "['C:/django'] + sys.pat" If this is a cut and p

Re: Disabling middleware for tests

2009-01-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:17 -0800, davenaff wrote: > What is the best way to disable a specific middleware when running > django tests? > > This ticket was designated wontfix, so I get test failures on the auth > tests every time I run our test suite: > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9172#c

Re: Anyway to see full UrlConf list of available imported urls?

2009-01-22 Thread Eric Abrahamsen
Here's one way. There's likely a cleaner option somewhere else: from django.core.urlresolvers import get_resolver r = get_resolver('mysite.urls') for pattern in r._get_url_patterns(): print pattern That works, at any rate. Yours, Eric On Jan 23, 2009, at 3:55 AM, NoviceSortOf wrote: > > >

Error: 'PersonForm' object is not callable

2009-01-22 Thread waltbrad
Hi folks. PersonForm is a modelform. I'm trying to validate data by calling an instance of PersonForm. (This is from Sam's 24 hour, and I've modified the example to accommodate the 1.0 changes.) So, if request.method == 'POST': if request.POST['submit'] == 'update': message = 'U

Error when Resending forgotten password

2009-01-22 Thread Oleg Oltar
Hi! I am getting a strange error when trying to reset, forgotten password. I am using it this way # Password resend group (r'^reset/(?P[0-9A-Za-z]+)-(?P.+)/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.password_reset_confirm', {'template_name':'registration/password_

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