Re: How to get a web development job (i.e. Django/Python) if someone is an amateur programmer?

2010-12-19 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 18/12/2010, at 1:03 AM, Dopster wrote: > This is a question that can be generalized for any other amateur programmers > looking to get into software development, and specifically startups. I > specify Django/Python in my own details below, but it can be replaced with > PHP, Ruby, etc. >

How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread Alexey Moskvin
Hi, I have a block, included into several pages (for example, in all sections of my website you can see top rated articles in the right column). I can include a template, that prints this list into base template and avoid any copy-paste here. But I need to provide it with context variable, that con

Re: How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread Piotr Kilczuk
Hi, I have a block, included into several pages (for example, in all > sections of my website you can see top rated articles in the right > column). I can include a template, that prints this list into base > template and avoid any copy-paste here. > But I need to provide it with context variable,

Re: How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread Alexey Moskvin
Thanks, Piotr. It was a solution with custom tag but implementation with database requests from template looked not too elegant for me. I'll look into custom context processors. On Dec 19, 1:25 pm, Piotr Kilczuk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a block, included into several pages (for example, in all > >

Re: why will HttpResponseRedirect prevent re submit of form?

2010-12-19 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Mingming Wang wrote: > From the tutorial of Django, there is the following code in here > Who knows the mechanism behind a redirect or a direct response? Refer the > comments below. Thanks a lot! HttpResponseRedirect returns a 301 or 302 response code to the brow

Re: urls.py independient from application path

2010-12-19 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:16 PM, JMVmedia.es wrote: > In the urls.py of one application i decided to use this idea. > > > import os > APP_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) > APP_NAME = os.basemane(APP_PATH) > > I'm not sure about the performance implications of using this os > i

Re: What's a good site to solicit project bids

2010-12-19 Thread intech
I've had good success with sites like odesk and elance. I think the key is doing interviews and looking carefully through people's resumes and work history. Also, knowing enough to spot good programming is really helpful! On Dec 18, 5:37 am, mehma sarja wrote: > I have a project which needs devel

Just saying hi

2010-12-19 Thread Dave Sayer
Seasons Greetings, I joined the list yesterday and just wanted to say "Hi" and introduce myself. I'm a frontend dev who was looking for a framework to learn to enhance my backend skills and django seemed to fit nicely. I'm really glad I did. I seem to be picking it up quite well, although it's b

Re: Just saying hi

2010-12-19 Thread delegbede
Welcome Mate. I'm sure you'll get so much to learn and also teach. Best regards. Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -Original Message- From: Dave Sayer Sender: django-users@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:16:12 To: Reply-To: django-users@googlegroups.com Subj

Re: Just saying hi

2010-12-19 Thread Anurag Chourasia
Welcome to the community Dave. Season's greetings to you too and everyone. Regards Anurag On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Dave Sayer wrote: > Seasons Greetings, > > I joined the list yesterday and just wanted to say "Hi" and introduce > myself. > > I'm a frontend dev who was looking for a fra

Re: How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread Matt
I am doing something similar to Alexay, I have a context processor repeating the same query for all of my views. Piotr, ( or anyone ) can you expand more about caching the data? Maybe some ideas of things to Google for. On Dec 19, 2:25 am, Piotr Kilczuk wrote: > Hi, > > I have a block, included i

Re: How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread creecode
Hello Matt, On Dec 19, 6:58 am, Matt wrote: > I am doing something similar to Alexay, I have a context processor > repeating the same query for all of my views. Piotr, ( or anyone ) can > you expand more about caching the data? Maybe some ideas of things to > Google for. No need to Google unles

Re: How to avoid passing of the same parameters in many views

2010-12-19 Thread Piotr Kilczuk
Hi again, Johnny-cache http://packages.python.org/johnny-cache/ is very good at caching repetitive queries, however I had to disable it in my most-recent project because of a bug in admin... Other options are low-level cache (in case of context processor - cache only the QuerySet) or template fra

query fast on command line - slow via url

2010-12-19 Thread NoviceSortOf
I'm trying to determine why our search queries return so slow. We are not doing anything fancy in our searches, simply searching for author, or title in a table of about 6000 books. http://www.rareorientalbooks.com/searchadv/ On the command line using the exact code in the views.py everything re

Re: Just saying hi

2010-12-19 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Glad to see another Django developer has joined us :) On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Dave Sayer wrote: > Seasons Greetings, > > I joined the list yesterday and just wanted to say "Hi" and introduce > myself. > > I'm a frontend dev who was looking for a framework to learn to enhance my > backe

Re: possible bug in joining on a geo field

2010-12-19 Thread felix
ah no, now I get it: geo queries requires a GeoManager. so even though the starting class does not have gis fields, it needs a GeoManager in order to build queries addressing fields on the other model. I'm not sure what should happen, the error messaging is very misleading, but once you know t

Haystack error rebuinding index

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel França
Hi all I was using haystack(xapian) at a Mac, so I moved it to a Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) using python 2.6.6, but now when I try to rebuild the index I get the following error: AttributeError: 'ProfileIndex' object has no attribute 'full_prepare' ProfileIndex is my index, I didn't created a full_prepa

Re: How to get a web development job (i.e. Django/Python) if someone is an amateur programmer?

2010-12-19 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Working on your own projects will give you plenty of opportunities to do things "the wrong way" (and believe me, it takes a while ;p). It also gives you the chance to develop your own coding style, and improve upon. There's nothing worse than using a new framework for a work project, then two years

Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
I need to execute some SQL queries involving joins and it seems like custom SQL is the way to go. A couple of questions: 1) In the doc (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/db/sql/ #executing-custom-sql-directly) there's an example: cursor.execute("SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE baz = %s", [s

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Maksymus007
you get array of arrays. First array contains rows. Every row is just an array of fields, order is the same as in your query. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Andy wrote: > I need to execute some SQL queries involving joins and it seems like > custom SQL is the way to go. A couple of questions

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Jonas H.
On 12/19/2010 09:45 PM, Andy wrote: I need to execute some SQL queries involving joins and it seems like custom SQL is the way to go. I presume you already tried out to do your JOIN queries using the Django ORM? A couple of questions: 1) In the doc (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
On Dec 19, 3:48 pm, Maksymus007 wrote: > you get array of arrays. > First array contains rows. Every row is just an array of fields, order is > the same as in your query. What if my query is "SELECT * FROM ..."? In that case what ordering would the fields be in? -- You received this message

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
> > I presume you already tried out to do your JOIN queries using the Django > ORM? Is there a way to specify JOIN using the Django ORM? The 2 tables I'm joining aren't related through a foreign key. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" g

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Steve Holden
On 12/19/2010 3:48 PM, Maksymus007 wrote: > you get array of arrays. Technically, in strict Python terms what you get is a list of tuples. Each element of the list is a tuple where each column from the query provides an element of each tuple. > First array contains rows. Every row is just an arr

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Jonas H.
On 12/19/2010 10:20 PM, Andy wrote: Is there a way to specify JOIN using the Django ORM? The 2 tables I'm joining aren't related through a foreign key. Why don't you use a relation field in your models if your models are related? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Den 19/12/2010 kl. 22.17 skrev Andy: > On Dec 19, 3:48 pm, Maksymus007 wrote: >> you get array of arrays. >> First array contains rows. Every row is just an array of fields, order is >> the same as in your query. > > What if my query is "SELECT * FROM ..."? > > In that case what ordering would

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
On Dec 19, 5:06 pm, "Jonas H." wrote: > On 12/19/2010 10:20 PM, Andy wrote: > > > Is there a way to specify JOIN using the Django ORM? The 2 tables I'm > > joining aren't related through a foreign key. > > Why don't you use a relation field in your models if your models are > related? The table

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Sawyer
On 19/12/10 22:44, Andy wrote: On Dec 19, 5:06 pm, "Jonas H." wrote: On 12/19/2010 10:20 PM, Andy wrote: Is there a way to specify JOIN using the Django ORM? The 2 tables I'm joining aren't related through a foreign key. Why don't you use a relation field in your models if your models are

Re: Custom SQL questions

2010-12-19 Thread Andy
On Dec 19, 6:20 pm, Tim Sawyer wrote: > I think so, yes.  Something like this: > > You can then do something like > > anObjectA = ObjectA.objects.filter(id=1)[0] > objectBs = ObjectB.objects.filter(object_a=anObjectA) This requires 2 separate queries, right? I'm hoping to just have 1 trip to t

removable file field and other features

2010-12-19 Thread Daniel Carvalho
Everybody knows the default django FileField doesn't allow to remove an existing file... This is a good replacement. Just use RemovableFileField instead of FileField in your models: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/636/ I want to implement on it another feature- When there is a file being uplo

Re: Just saying hi

2010-12-19 Thread Dave Sayer
Thanks for the welcomes. Hope I can contribute to, as well as benefit from the list. On 19 December 2010 18:43, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: > Glad to see another Django developer has joined us :) > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Dave Sayer wrote: >> >> Seasons Greetings, >> >>

problem loading custom template tag

2010-12-19 Thread Nate Reed
Hi, I'm using Django 1.2.1 and I'm having problems trying to load my template tags: {% load mytags %} TemplateSyntaxError at /myapp/ 'mytags' is not a valid tag library: Template library mytags not found, tried django.templatetags.mytags It's defined in myproject/myapp/templatetags/mytags.py.

Re: How to get a web development job (i.e. Django/Python) if someone is an amateur programmer?

2010-12-19 Thread astar
I am not particularly a web guy historically, but when I retired I did some pro-bono website development for non-profits. One I did six years ago has had some reported praise and after all this time of course needs to be redone so I am hanging around a bit looking at django. Doing this sort of th

Re: problem loading custom template tag

2010-12-19 Thread Karen Tracey
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Nate Reed wrote: > When I try to import my module in the shell I also am unable to import it: > > >>> from django.templatetags import mytags > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 1, in > ImportError: cannot import name mytags > >>> from myapp.temp

Re: problem loading custom template tag

2010-12-19 Thread Nate Reed
Karen, thanks for your reply. The module myapp/templatetags does have an __init__.py file. There is no __init__.pyc file, though. n...@nate-desktop:~/work/django-projects/myproject/myapp$ ls templatetags/ mytags.py __init.py__ On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Sun, De

Re: problem loading custom template tag

2010-12-19 Thread Nate Reed
My mistake. There was a small typo. It was called __init.py__, not __init__.py. I fixed it and it works now. Thanks, Nate On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Nate Reed wrote: > Karen, thanks for your reply.   The module myapp/templatetags does > have an __init__.py file.  There is no __init__.p

Re: get request from an java API to DJango

2010-12-19 Thread Bjørn Høj Jakobsen
Hi Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.jansipke.nl/python-soap-client-with-suds Regards Bjørn On 18 Dec., 15:58, Bjørn Høj Jakobsen wrote: > I would advice you to use the "suds" to create the soap (I presume) > client. > > I spent a lot of time trying to get the ZSI to work but got stuck

Re: looking for python or django SQL data editor

2010-12-19 Thread derek
Uh - that would be Django Admin ... an app that allows users to add/ delete/update (and search) records. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/ On Dec 19, 2:45 am, Len Conrad wrote: > phpmyadmin and other such mysql db design/maintain tools do too much, too > complicated. > > I'