Django - tutorial part 2 problem - Permission denied when attempting to save file

2011-10-31 Thread BillB1951
Got this error Ran into this as part of the Django tutorial (part 2) very close to the bottom an attempt to change the page header/title. "There was an error attempting to save 'base_site.html':Permission denied" when trying to save the file below (copied from django source code) {% ex

Can't locate Django source code path

2011-11-01 Thread BillB1951
FRom part 2 of the tutorial I am instructed to copy a file --- Now copy the template admin/base_site.html from within the default Django admin template directory in the source code of Django itself (django/contrib/admin/templates) i I can't find the path. How do I get to it? -- You received t

syncdb not finding and syncing my MySQL database

2011-11-21 Thread BillB1951
I am attempting to run "python manage.py syncdb" from my apps directory (directory where model.py exists for the app). The settings.py database settings all appear to be ok. I have created MySQL database with the same name as in settings.py and I have verified its creation on the MySQL server. I

Re: syncdb not finding and syncing my MySQL database

2011-11-21 Thread BillB1951
getting an error" > > This is not a proper way to ask question. Please post > > your trace-back somewhere and send the link to the group or at least > > specify what error is it, so that, we could help you. > > Thanks, > > Anoop > > > atm > > ___ >

error attempting to populate field

2012-01-03 Thread BillB1951
I am trying to add the interger value 15 to a table field CanoeKayak.listings, which is a Foreignkey field that is related to the "Listings.id" field in another table --- a listings.id=15 exists. What is happening? see error below: ValueError at /bsmain/canoekayak/add/15/ Cannot assign "[15]":"

Having trouble passing a parent table record “id” to a new record in a child table

2012-01-06 Thread BillB1951
I am having trouble passing a parent table record “id” to a new record in a child table. My urlconf calls add_childtable in my views.py and passes the parenttable_id to it. I have excluded the parenttable from my ChildTableForm(ModelForm) because I do not want it to be available to the users. Wh

Re: Model for images with thumbnails

2012-01-06 Thread BillB1951
You may want to check out a tutorial on lightbird.net link is: http://www.lightbird.net/dbe/photo.html Bill On Jan 6, 6:35 am, MeME wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to Django. I started to write something for personal > purposes. > I have doubts about writing model for media files, especially ima

How do you pass dissimilar data from view to template?

2012-01-26 Thread BillB1951
I am a relatively new to Django, and have just run into a wall, but I am sure this will be a cake walk for you veterans out there. I have a list of items I am displaying in a table in a template. That is no problem I create an object (list of values) in my view send it to the template and render

Re: How do you pass dissimilar data from view to template?

2012-01-26 Thread BillB1951
Brett, Thanks. That is what I needed. BillB1951 On Jan 26, 4:55 pm, Brett Epps wrote: > It sounds like you're confused about how to add more than one piece of > information to a template.  When you render a template, the template is > given a context, which is a Python dict obje

Re: How do you pass dissimilar data from view to template?

2012-01-27 Thread BillB1951
existing solution ... or learn Javascript. --Bill On Jan 27, 11:19 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:01:50 -0800 (PST), BillB1951 > wrote: > > >Brett, Thanks.  That is what I needed.  BillB1951 > >         Just an aside: seems like a convoluted plan t