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On Jul 8, 11:40 am, justin jools wrote: > Thanks for that. I did read something about having to add services > back in to the context processors. > The reason I am doing this way is because I could not pass the {media > url} with generic views. > I did a search for trying to do this and hit a coup

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> On Jul 8, 7:25 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> >> any reason why get_model() in django.db.models is not documented? Or is it >> just that I cannot find it? No - it isn't documented. The app/model loading APIs are in the same category as _meta -- API that is fairly important for meta-programming

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Re: context porcessors request.context media_url breaks admin

On Jul 8, 12:57 pm, justin jools wrote: > Thank for your quick response Daniel. > I'm just confused about using media_url with generic views, I have > done it previously with: > > from django.conf import settings        # for media_url > media_url = settings.MEDIA_URL > > def dblist(request): >  

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Re: context porcessors request.context media_url breaks admin

The 2 methods of using media_url with generic views I have tried: 1. http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jun/14/django-tips-template-context-processors/ This knocked out my admin, but media_url did work 2. using templatetags yourApp/templatetags/media_url.py: from django.template import Library f

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Wow... django docs can be so confusing... I could not believe it worked just by using upper case MEDIA_URL Thanks so much :) :) I spent a day trying figure this out... On 8 July, 13:14, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jul 8, 12:57 pm, justin jools wrote: > > > > > > > Thank for your quick response

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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:09 AM, David Ally wrote: > > And the subsequent similar composition gave me syntax error, the traceback said something about "None", Please help me to get past this stage It will help people help you if you post the actual code you are trying to get to work (not something

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On 2010-07-08, at 9:07 AM, Martin Tiršel wrote: > 1.) Where is the right place to place news loader? > TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS seems to be a good place and easy to implement. > Another possibility is a middleware, I feel, that it should go there instead > of TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS. Mi

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On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:21 AM, justin jools wrote: > Wow... django docs can be so confusing... > > I could not believe it worked just by using upper case MEDIA_URL {{ MEDIA_URL }} is already present in the templates because the django.core.context_processors.media context processor which is ena

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To be more specific, here is what I have tried: # in models.py from django import forms class UploadFileForm(forms.Form): title = forms.CharField(max_length=50) file = forms.FileField() # in admin.py from proj.app.models import UploadFileForm admin.site.register(UploadFileForm) Which

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Re: Overwhelmed by File upload instructions

On Jul 8, 7:25 pm, Rodion Raskolnikiv wrote: > To be more specific, here is what I have tried: > > # in models.py > from django import forms > > class UploadFileForm(forms.Form): >     title = forms.CharField(max_length=50) >     file  = forms.FileField() > > # in admin.py > from proj.app.models i

Re: Overwhelmed by File upload instructions

I was totally on the wrong trail! Hopefully this post can serve others who were in my dilemma: If you are looking to have a file as part of your model definition, look here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/files/ Looking in these locations did not supply what I was after: http://doc

Re: Overwhelmed by File upload instructions

On Jul 8, 6:28 pm, Rodion Raskolnikiv wrote: > Good morning! > I have been wanting to design a model (to be administered via the > admin area) which would allow for file uploads. I have not been able > to grasp a singular, simple approach to this. Perhaps things are > complicated by Django's prefe

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Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

On Jul 8, 6:43 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: > Hi all > > I did the tutorial and I've spent the last two days in the > documentation trying, and failing, to figure out how to tie my model > to a view and ultimately a template that is served. The documentation > seems to do a lot of things (like write

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Re: Maintain separate i18n translation (.po) for different applications

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:39:25AM -0700, Behrooz Nobakht wrote: > I am not an expert in Django/Python, so what I have at the moment is > only mysite/locale/xx/django.po for both app1 and app2. But, actually > I need to separately have mysite/app1/locale/xx/app1.po and mysite/ > app2/locale/xx/app2

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probably need to do the tutorial again. It seems to me getting info fro

Re: Get pk before commit

Lets say for a model i have the following: class Image(models.Model): image = models.ImageField() >>> image = Image() >>> # Somehow get ID >>> destination = open('ID/name.jpg', 'wb+') >>> for chunk in f.chunks(): ...destination.write(chunk) >>> destination.close() >>> image.image = "I

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

On 07/08/2010 05:23 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probably need to do the

Re: Overwhelmed by File upload instructions

Soo easy... Thanks for the tips! I knew that there had to be a simple solution!! On Jul 8, 2:02 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jul 8, 6:28 pm, Rodion Raskolnikiv wrote: > > > > > > > Good morning! > > I have been wanting to design a model (to be administered via the > > admin area) which would a

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I seem to learn by example. I am trying to make an form for uploading files but no matter how many times I read the documentation I cant seem to get the form to the client, let alone how to store the file. Do you know how to get objec

Re: News on every page

I would use a custom template tag with cache El 08/07/2010 18:17, "Andy McKay" escribió: On 2010-07-08, at 9:07 AM, Martin Tiršel wrote: > 1.) Where is the right place to place news loader?... Middleware is not the appropriate place, a context processor is the appropriate place. -- Andy McKay,

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

Check out djangobook.com. It's a much longer tutorial, and really well written. On Jul 8, 4:07 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: > Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I > seem to learn by example. I am trying to make an form for uploading > files but no matter how many times

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

Thanks man!! On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:11 PM, larsendt wrote: > Check out djangobook.com. It's a much longer tutorial, and really well > written. > > On Jul 8, 4:07 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: >> Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I >> seem to learn by example. I am tr

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: > I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and > url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get > something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do > they tie together? I probably

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

On 07/08/2010 06:07 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. There is no shortage of Django tutorials and screencasts. Just Google for them. Showmedo.com, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and YouTube all have Django resources. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dina

Re: Django developer opening

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Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:23:53 +0200, Bradley Hintze wrote: I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probabl

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Re: Get pk before commit

On Friday 09 July 2010 03:16:28 TheIvIaxx wrote: > I'd like to save the image file into a folder based on the ID of the > new instance. The only thing i can think of is to create the new > folder mid transaction. I guess another way to do it would be to save > a new instance with a temp file or s

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Re: News on every page

On Thursday 08 July 2010 21:37:58 Martin Tiršel wrote: > I am programming a small CMS on Django, I have editable pages, now I want > to add news. I have a website where I want to display these news on every > page in right/left column. I have following questions: > > 1.) Where is the right pla

Re: default is_active to true on new users

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On Thursday 08 July 2010 17:11:35 Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > get_model() et al are intended utilities for metaprogramming -- for > example, if you want to build an interface that can knows about other > models in the project, get_model() and friends are the tools you use. > thanks - a relief to

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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to let the Django community know that PostgreSQL has stated an > EOL (End of Life) for PostgreSQL versions 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1. > > If you are running any version of PostgreSQL 7.4, 8.0 or 8.1, it is time > to upgrade to 8.

Re: Ignoring fields in deserialization

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:50 AM, lfrodrigues wrote: > Hello, > > I had some copies of a model with 10 fields serialized in a file. > > I deleted some of the fields (since I don't need them anymore) now I > can't deserialize the model. > > error: raise FieldDoesNotExist, '%s has no field named %r' %

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RE: How can I Insert multiple records in one statement

In MySQLdb you do something similar to Records = [ (1,2,3), (4,5,6), (7,8,9) , (11,22,33) ] cursor.execute('insert to mytable (a,b,c) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)', Records) #untested. This would insrt 4 rows -Original Message- From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-us...@googlegrou

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Re: How can I Insert multiple records in one statement

On Friday 09 July 2010 07:18:30 Sells, Fred wrote: > In MySQLdb you do something similar to > > Records = [ (1,2,3), (4,5,6), (7,8,9) , (11,22,33) ] > > cursor.execute('insert to mytable (a,b,c) VALUES (%s, %s, %s)', Records) > #untested. > > This would insrt 4 rows > it is two statements ;-)

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