Converting Django to Desktop App? (Multiple Instances)

2010-10-29 Thread Victor Hooi
Hi, This is a bit of a strange scenario. We have a simple Django application used to maintain a database of newspaper/journal articles. We're extensively using the django-admin as part of this app. Currently, we're having issues getting a production environment with Python provisioned (corporate

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Karim Gorjux
I have just one question. While I'm editing the source of the project, to see the result I have always to restart the server or there is another way? -- K. Blog Personale: http://www.karimblog.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group

Re: Converting Django to Desktop App? (Multiple Instances)

2010-10-29 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 29/10/2010 6:33pm, Victor Hooi wrote: Hi, This is a bit of a strange scenario. We have a simple Django application used to maintain a database of newspaper/journal articles. We're extensively using the django-admin as part of this app. Currently, we're having issues getting a production env

Re: Import csv file in admin

2010-10-29 Thread Jirka Vejrazka
I must still be missing something here. If all you want to do is to read CSV file and save the data in the database, I still don't understand why you use the forms machinery. You only *need* to use the data model, e.g. from myapp.models import Data csvfile = csv.reader('something.csv') for line

Re: How to aggregate values by month

2010-10-29 Thread sebastien piquemal
Hi ! You could also give django-cube a try : http://code.google.com/p/django-cube/ Unlike Mikhail's app, the aggregates are not efficient (because no optimization is made, I am working on this), but this is more than enough if you have a reasonable amount of data (less than millions of rows !!!).

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Robbington
Hey Karim, The best way to save yourself time and effort is really to use the Django development server when testing out alterations. Max, Actually I mentioned Uwsgi, Perhaps if you are going to state potential bugs with software you could be so kind as to add the specifics in your posts and n

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Paul Menzel
Dear Rob, Am Freitag, den 29.10.2010, 02:45 -0700 schrieb Robbington: […] > Actually I mentioned Uwsgi, > > Perhaps if you are going to state potential bugs with software you > could be so kind as to add the specifics in your posts and not just > ambiguous statements such as "Do not use the uw

Start project not working

2010-10-29 Thread saam andreson
django-admin.py startproject myproject command not responding anything please help me with suggestion Response comes as like this i installed python2.5 and django official version and also copied admin.py in scripts but when i use django admin-py startproject myproject is not working it s showing t

admin usage

2010-10-29 Thread Alex Kreimer
Hi All, I'm building an app for small retail chain management. It requires inventory/salespeople/wages etc. management. There 2 kinds of users: updaters (non-tech managers that are responsible sales locations) and viewers (main office managers that control the organization). 1 Would django admi

Re: Start project not working

2010-10-29 Thread saam andreson
my any of the sub command is not working thanks for reffering -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubsc

to_locale case formatting

2010-10-29 Thread Mathias Kretschek
Hi, everyone. When I call to_locale on a language code, it acts as I expected. But, when I call it on an already formated locale, it will lowercase the region code. >>> from django.utils.translation import to_locale >>> to_locale('en-us') 'en_US' >>> to_locale('en_US') 'en_us' >>> to_locale('en_u

Subclassing AdminSite

2010-10-29 Thread Strav
Hi, I must say I'm kinda lost here. Any help would greatly be appreciated! I wish to have two seperate admin sites on the same django project. First thing I did, was create the app: alternate_admin within alternate_admin, I have admin.py where I defined the following: from django.contrib.admin.s

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Robbington
Dear Paul and Max, As I mentioned before please email me directly should you wish to continue this discussion further, and or create a new post. I feel it unfair to discuss this in this particular forum as it is unrelated to the original subject matter. I meant no offense to Max, I can see how th

Re: Start project not working

2010-10-29 Thread Jirka Vejrazka
Hi, first of all, if you will be sending emails like these, you're likely to get ignored by people who are otherwise happy to anser questions like yours (hint: 3 consecutive emails about the same topic in 2 conferences, "anonymous" user etc.) Now for the real "answer". You have not told us an

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Max Countryman
On Oct 29, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Robbington wrote: > Actually I mentioned Uwsgi, You missed where I referenced, where was here: On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Karim Gorjux wrote: > Now I solved all my problems working with settings.py. Seems that also > the debug works, but If I'll be again in troub

Re: Model Inheritance.

2010-10-29 Thread David De La Harpe Golden
On 29/10/10 00:04, Tom Eastman wrote: That's correct, but I want to take a 'Place' object, that doesn't have a 'restaurant', and turn it *in to* a 'Restaurant' by adding the corresponding row to the Restaurant table. So you have a place. p = Place(name="3rd Circle of Hell") p.save() This sh

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Max Countryman
Rob, I don't want to email you directly. I'm sure you're a nice guy and everything, but I'm on this list to contribute to the list. Please stop asking this. That *is* obnoxious. I'm sorry you see my comments as unhelpful or "unconstructive[sic]", however please remember you are not the only o

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Max Countryman
Generally, yes. If you're using a socket, you can rm the socket path each time you update. That will avoid the need to restart Cherokee. On Oct 29, 2010, at 4:31 AM, Karim Gorjux wrote: > I have just one question. While I'm editing the source of the project, > to see the result I have always to

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Robbington
"Anyway, my intent here was to help. It's ridiculous how everything has to be reduced to pedantic argumentation and sanctimonious advice about what to post where." I was trying to be courtesy towards Karim as this is his post. Consider, Max, whether this post would have been better had you not co

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Robbington
Karim, If you hve not already quit reading these posts(I wouldnt blame you if you had) I want to once again apologise. I only posted as I was glad to see someone else using Cherokee and wished to offer a small insight into another way of serving python code. The whole thing has become idiotic a

Re: Cherokee for home developing

2010-10-29 Thread Max Countryman
This may be of use to anyone using any version of Cherokee prior to 1.09: http://lists.octality.com/pipermail/cherokee/2010-September/013432.html There are several threads that detail the manual set up process. But the key here is that the wizard is, as Roberto states, "(currently) totally broke

write a filter for latex that escapes some chars

2010-10-29 Thread SlafS
Hi there! I'm trying to write a filter that can be used inside of a template that is used for generating latex files. The filter should replace the '|' char with '\'. Simple: @register.filter("verb_safe") def verb_safe(val): return str(val).replace('|', '\|') is outputting me '\\|' I'm lit

Re: write a filter for latex that escapes some chars

2010-10-29 Thread Brian Bouterse
We have done this before and used something like the code below. This sample is pretty basic. def fixchar(string,char): #fixes chars for latex if char == '<': newchar = '$<$' elif char == '>': newchar = '$>$' elif char == '~': newchar = '\\~{}'

Re: Converting Django to Desktop App? (Multiple Instances)

2010-10-29 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:41 AM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > That looks a bit 'under the radar' with regard to locked roadmap etc. Why > not dig the pit a bit deeper and make your own server with Apache, Django > and your Oracle db. Much cleaner than Apache/Django everywhere. also, if it's going to be

server configuration

2010-10-29 Thread bax...@gretschpages.com
I'm finding conflicting info regarding preferred server configurations. I'm using Nginx for static, passing off to Apache/mod_wsgi for django stuff. Currently, wsgi is in daemon, and I'm using the worker MPM. >From some sources I've seen that is ideal, but I notice in the django docs that prefork

Re: Converting Django to Desktop App? (Multiple Instances)

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Freeman
This will work. Concurrency is Oracle's problem. Each Django is a client, and gets a separate connection to Oracle. Transaction management is bread and butter to the big databases. That said, you may not need apache. This sounds like a group of cooperating users with a very low request rate, s

using python-magic on request.FILES['datafile']

2010-10-29 Thread wawa wawawa
Hi All, I'm trying to allow some flexibility for my end users. I want to support the uploading of multiple file archive types (tar.gz, tar.bzip2, zip, rar etc). I want to use python-magic to guess the filetype from the files magic number and then use the appropriate decompression modules to get at

Re: adding field to query set

2010-10-29 Thread Jumpfroggy
If it were my project, I'd probably add this kind of custom field to your mapping: mapping = { # list the normal columns first... then: 'full_name': ['user__first_name', 'user__last_name'], } Then your render code would be something like this: def render(self): for row in sel

Re: using python-magic on request.FILES['datafile']

2010-10-29 Thread wawa wawawa
And again, I solve a problem exactly 14 seconds after asking it... DOH! I had a hander method that was reading the file object prior to the tests. So, the "empty" was actually correct. I changed the order of the methods and it alls works as expected now. Oops. W On 29 October 2010 18:15, wawa

Re: Import csv file in admin

2010-10-29 Thread Jorge
Jirka I need an easy method inside the admin to upload the csv file with an web interface. I guess with your method the admin will need access to the server and the command line, and something like this is not what i try to do, because the admin (not me) is not a django developer, not even a user

Re: Subclassing AdminSite

2010-10-29 Thread Strav
Forgot to say: If I replace: (r'^', include(alternate_admin.urls)), with (r'^', include('alternate_admin.urls')), I can see the models I've got registered with my alternate admin but the url reversing is messed up, i.e.: logout does not point to /logout but to /admin/logout (while /admin/logout

Re: Model Inheritance.

2010-10-29 Thread Miguel Araujo
Hi Tom, You might want to have a look at inheritanceCastModel from django-model-utils by Carl Meyer http://github.com/carljm/django-model-utils Best regards, Miguel Araujo 2010/10/29 David De La Harpe Golden > On 29/10/10 00:04, Tom Eastman wrote: > > That's correct, but I want to take a 'Pla

Multiple Django/Python developer Positions- Atlanta, GA

2010-10-29 Thread Jack
Good Morning! I am looking for Django/Python developers to join the team of one our clients in Atlanta, GA working on one of the largest Django apps EVER in - scaled to serve web,mobile, and more for 100+ prominent newspaper, TV, and radio sites! There are 3-5 job openings and they are looking fo

Re: Multiple Django/Python developer Positions- Atlanta, GA

2010-10-29 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 07:18 -0700, Jack wrote: > only US Citizens or Greencard holders need apply please do not put things like this on an international list -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

Re: Multiple Django/Python developer Positions- Atlanta, GA

2010-10-29 Thread Venkatraman S
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 07:18 -0700, Jack wrote: > > only US Citizens or Greencard holders need apply > > please do not put things like this on an international list > I hear that there are many many unclaimed H1B slots :) But OTOH, i don

Re: Forms in a Workflow for Related Models

2010-10-29 Thread Miguel Araujo
Hi, You will need to go step by step. First you ask the user for the reviewer with a form. Then the user has to submit the form. You manage your input form and see if the data for that reviewer already exists, if it does, then you load initial data in the second form. Now you redirect the user to

Today I released my first Django-app

2010-10-29 Thread Miguel Araujo
Hi everyone! I hope this message is not seen as spam. Today I released my first Django-app as Open Source on Github. It's called django-rules. It's an authorization backend that you can use to flexibly manage per object permissions in your Django projects. I find it very useful and I'm sending thi

Aggregates are giving the wrong numbers for .annotate()? What am I doing wrong?

2010-10-29 Thread Jumpfroggy
Hi all, I've been working in django for a while now, but am still wrapping my head around the more complex queryset features. I have something like this: class Foo: name = CharField() bars = ForeignKey(Bar) widgets = ForeignKey(Widget) I can do this: Foo.objects.extra(select={

Re: How do I filter/exclude custom queryset fields created by .extra()?

2010-10-29 Thread Jumpfroggy
>From a raw SQL standpoint, I've figured out that these constraints need to be in the HAVING clause, not the WHERE clause. But it looks like HAVING is not exposed through the .extra() function, which would seems logical. It appears you can create extra fields, but due to this lack you can't filte

Re: How do I filter/exclude custom queryset fields created by .extra()?

2010-10-29 Thread Miguel Araujo
Hi, Try always not to think SQL and not to use extra. Most of the times there is an alternative without extra. Extra is advanced. class Node(Model): widgets = ForeignKey(Widget) This query will give you all the different nodes that have the foreign key widgets set to something different t

Using formsets with multiple models

2010-10-29 Thread Bill Brigham
Hi, I'm creating an online questionnaire for my local community college, and hitting a brick wall dealing with formsets. Please can someone point me in the right direction? On a questionnaire, you have one or more questions which will require either an essay answer or multiple choice answers. Whe

Using new classbased generic views in contrib.databrowse

2010-10-29 Thread Michael
Hi, Do you think it is relevant to rewrite databrowse to use the new class- based generic views ? I'm motivate to work around this and submit a patch, but want first to discuss about what to do.. IMHO, contrib.databrowse (using class-based views) can provide a reusable/extendable "base" for rapid

Re: how to develop cms on django

2010-10-29 Thread Oivvio Polite
> i dont have time i need to start development within a month.. > > plz tell me all those crucial topics that i should learn >From the little information I have about your situation I'd say your better of using a readymade CMS like Wordpress. As much as I love Django, I do think that you'll be s

Re: Subclassing AdminSite

2010-10-29 Thread Strav
Just solve my problem. This was hinted in the doc but wasn't really clear anyways. The registration has to be made in the same file instantiating your admin subclass. I'll submit a doc revision for that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users

Django admin for call center support?

2010-10-29 Thread mack the finger
I'm responsible for writing a customer service application for a django project, and it needs to be done by Monday (it's friday now). I'm currently getting it built with the Django Admin, but the bosses think the interface is too complex for the "knuckle-draggers" that commonly answer phones. I'm w

Re: admin usage

2010-10-29 Thread Frank Wiles
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Alex Kreimer wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm building an app for small retail chain management.  It requires > inventory/salespeople/wages etc. management.  There 2 kinds of users: > updaters (non-tech managers that are responsible sales locations) and > viewers (main off

Re: admin usage

2010-10-29 Thread Carlos Daniel Ruvalcaba Valenzuela
I have always had the notion that the admin interface is more about adding data to the system quickly rather than being the system itself, the admin interface is very powerful indeed, but I think you may have better customization/simplification options on your own and reserve the admin interface fo

Re: Django admin for call center support?

2010-10-29 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, Yes. I wrote a customer care app with django for a call center with 40+ agents. It is now mostly have custom views and actions but the default django admin was used for a couple of months without any issues. I used proxy models to only show fields in the add client view they need to see(aga

can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory'.

2010-10-29 Thread sami nathan
Whenever I try to execute a python script that is located in the /usr/local/bin, python gives me the error 'python: can't open file 'django-admin.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post