Url logic

Hello, I'm wondering how you would you organize the url layout in a following scenario Suppose I've a table of Authors and for each author a list of books. A book can have only one author, so I link the author with a foreign key. Now I could point to a particular author with a url like thi

Django Debug Toolbar 1.0 beta released

Hello, I'm happy to annonce that we're almost ready to release version 1.0 of the Debug Toolbar! Now we need your help to try the beta: https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar/releases/tag/1.0-beta The documentation is available on Read the Docs — make sure you read the "la

Re: Url logic

Hi You can get at components passed in the url in views like this class AuthorView(DetailView): model = Author def get_context_data(self, **kwargs): context = super(AuthorView, self).get_context_data(**kwargs) slug = self.kwargs['slug'] So if you are adding a book you can do somethi

SelectDateWidget doesn't work after reload

I am trying to make a sign up form and there I want to get the users birth date. I want to use the select date widget. in my models.py I have set a model field: birth_date = models.DateField(verbose_name='Birth Date') and my forms.py looks like this: from django import forms from django.forms

View decorators before CSRF verification?

I have a function based view that should only respond to GET and HEAD requests so I used the @require_safe decorator. @require_safe def myview(request): # logic so the expected response from a POST request is a 405 Response Not Allowed. Using Postman to send a POST to the corresponding url,

Making sure I'm not missing out on some must have Django apps

Right so it has been quite awhile since I updated my list of must have Django apps. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? Currently I use the following in all my Django projects: Django Debug Toolbar debug_toolbar_htmltidy inspector_panel debug_toolbar_user_panel South Django Compresso

Re: Installing Django

Thank you, Mulianto. On Friday, December 13, 2013 1:10:04 AM UTC-5, Mulianto wrote: > > Frederick, > > Python installer on windows by default install in c:\python 2.x\ > > And all package like django and others will be under python folder install > in libs\site-package\ > > Better look to use vir

Re: Installing Django

Thank you, Mike. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 10:17:39 PM UTC-5, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > > Frederick > > On Windows, the easiest (decision-less) way to install Django is using pip > or easy-install. Get pip first if you haven't done so already. Django will > then end up in exactly the right pla

Re: Installing Django

Thank you, Thomas. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:08:19 PM UTC-5, Thomas wrote: > > On 12/12/13 1:55 PM, Frederick Miller wrote: > > For Windows XP, should Django be installed under the Python27 folder? > > Or should Django be on the root of the C: drive? > > I have no experience with Windo

Re: Installing Django

Thank you, Guddu. On Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:19:40 PM UTC-5, Guddu wrote: > > It goes into Lib\site-packages folder. > > Regards, > Anurag > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Frederick Miller > > > wrote: > >> For Windows XP, should Django be installed under the Python27 folder? Or >>

Re: Making sure I'm not missing out on some must have Django apps

Some short description of these plugins are appreciated. Maybe a link? Am Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2013 17:43:32 UTC+1 schrieb Some Developer: > > Right so it has been quite awhile since I updated my list of must have > Django apps. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions? > > Currently I use

Re: Making sure I'm not missing out on some must have Django apps

I googled the list without any problem. On December 15, 2013 at 2:21:42 PM, Sebastian Morkisch (semo...@googlemail.com) wrote: Some short description of these plugins are appreciated. Maybe a link? Am Sonntag, 15. Dezember 2013 17:43:32 UTC+1 schrieb Some Developer: Right so it has been quite a

Re: Making sure I'm not missing out on some must have Django apps

Hi, I would add some: django-userena - user self registration django-organizations - user and organizations django-guardian - object level permissions django-paranoia - paranoid security stuff django-cache machine / johnny-cache Thx Frank Am 15.12.13 17:43, schrieb Some Developer: Right so it ha

Re: Error Doing python manage.py syncdb in django pyBB

django.utils.simplejson is deprecated; use json instead. Hi Alok, it seems pyBB is not django 1.6 compatible - simplejson got deprecated in 1.6 just my 2 cents Frank Am 14.12.13 15:15, schrieb Alok Nag: Hello Experts, I am newbie to Django/Python. I am trying to setup a forum app using py

Initial sql question

My model is named foo, but my tables start with bar_ (I set the table names in the Meta class in my models). I have an initial sql file in app/foo/sql/blah.sql to initialize bar_blah, but it is not getting executed. Is this because of the difference in the model name and table prefix? -- You rece

Re: View decorators before CSRF verification?

Hi Dalton, > Is this something to be bothered about? This is a request for advice and discussion rather than debugging a particular problem. I think I would prefer if there were a way for Django to check for view decorator compliance first because I think a 405 response is more descriptive and