Re: The Django Book

You get what you pay for. And pretty soon there will be a Django book you can pay for :) -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post

mysql/pkg_resources problem

elps any. I've tried rebuilding and install MySQL_python a couple times. I've rebuilt Python 2.5 from source a couple times. Any idea what else I might try? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message be

Re: mysql/pkg_resources problem

On 8/16/07, Greg Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new Django setup I'm trying to finish up the install for. > I'm getting this error: > > Error loading MySQLdb module: No module named pkg_resources I figured it out. I built my MySQL from source but fo

dynamic filtering in a QuerySet

n as a named parameter. I've tried eval() and all sort of back tick and quoting combinations, nothing seems to work. Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &qu

Re: dynamic filtering in a QuerySet

On 8/30/07, daev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > widgets = widgets.filter( **filters ) When I try that I get the error: filter() keywords must be strings Does that have anything to do with the fact that they are unicode? filters: {u'LOB': u'B'} --

send_mail() doesn't handle extra headers?

r is there a better way? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com

Re: Does the django admin support the Group?

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:56:47AM -, Bear wrote: > For instance, Group A can access all the tables but Group B just > access some of them? http://www.djangobook.com/en/beta/chapter06/ There's a small section "Users, groups, and permissions", about halfway down the pa

Re: Integrating Django with existing site.

capture incoming URLs that aren't yet in your new Django app before they get to it, sending them to the legacy app instead. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://howto.kryl.info/mod_rewrite/ -- Greg Donald Cyberfusion Consulting http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/ --~

Re: Performance for django for years

or performance) to code as: > > class A(models.Model): > year = models.CharField(maxlength=4) > [...] > > or > class A(models.Model): > year = models.PossitiveIntegerField() > [...] > > what it's the best for database performance (I use mysql) For performance

apache vhost /media issue

ssue on the file system. I even copied the media folder into the Django app directory at one point, no help. Other than the media files, my Django app functions perfectly. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or what else can I do to debug this? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ -

Re: apache vhost /media issue

On 3/4/07, akonsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i had the same error which went away after i added "Allow" directive > in to my httpd.conf. Order deny,allow Allow from all That was indeed the fix. Thanks. -- Greg Dona

howto add join table field?

n models or the like? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To

debugging/breakpointing

k directly. Failing that, could someone point me to the best practices page or whatever for debugging Django? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django u

Re: debugging/breakpointing

here some listener script I need to run? > just before the django > handler is called. After that you can step, set breakpoints, etc. Is there a tutorial or howto for all of this? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: debugging/breakpointing

On 3/9/07, Ned Batchelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PDB lets you do what you want. Yup.. thanks. Is there a way to get tab completion working? Or make it use ipython? I seem to have command history, but not across sessions? -- Greg Donald http://des

model validation

Why doesn't this prevent me from entering an empty string into the database? name = models.CharField(maxlength=32, blank=False, null=False) Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

Re: model validation

ion" exactly? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com

Re: model validation

port datetime In [2]: from mysite.groceries.models import List In [3]: l = List(name='', created_at=datetime.datetime.now()) In [4]: l.save() In [5]: l.name Out[5]: '' What am I missing here? -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~--

sql log

How can I see the sql Django produces? Is it being logged somewhere or can I configure Django to log it somewhere? I realize I can look at the logs from my db server but I'm wanting just the queries produced by Django itself. Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destine

adding to User class

How/where can I add a method to the built-in User class? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, sen

tuples into a select list

I have some tuples like this: categories = ( ( 'a', 'abc' ), ( 'b', 'def' ) ) How can I build select options from that in a template? When I try this: {% for c in categories %} {{ c[1] }} {% endfor %} I get this error: Could not parse the remaind

Re: tuples into a select list

On 3/23/07, Greg Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could not parse the remainder: [0] Solved. I found it was c.0 and c.1 that I needed. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscrib

filters/sql

tion Value:Error binding parameter 2 - probably unsupported type. I can do pretty much any part of the filtering by itself and it works, just not all together like I need it. What's the correct way to do this sort of a query/filter? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http

Re: sql log

ith tab completion. Being new to Django I don't really know what I'm looking for without tab completion. I barely know with it. Any idea how to make pdb use ipython? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this mes

foreign key filtering

for active project filtering: msgs = Messages.active.filter( Q( project=project.id, project.active=True ) ) Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django

Re: sql log

t will be quite simple since I am the page requester. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@g

Re: sql log

pment. Tailing all the SQL queries created by the code I'm writing, however, is. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post

Re: sql log

ould be turning > on your database's query logging functionality to see the raw data. I mostly just needed to see what the Q() thingy was doing with my and/or filter (chain) logic. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received thi

Re: foreign key filtering

On 3/26/07, RajeshD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try this: > msgs = Messages.active.filter(project__active=True) Yup. Thanks. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: newbie - deploy error

O_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings > PythonDebug On > Here's what I use in development: http://destiney.com/blog/django-apache-vhost -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to t

development server

debug sessions goes away and I again have to restart the development server. What is up with that? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users&quo

Re: development server

sh returning me to a bash prompt, it locks up, I have to hit Ctrl + C, then restart it. Are you saying this is not normal? What can I do to fix it? Thanks, -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: development server

th my +4 hammer.. then _finally_ I'm back in business. I realize I could forgo the fixing of bash by just hitting up and enter, but then any future debugging sessions would require typing blind to step through code and interrogate variables and stuff, not fun.

Re: Any books available

On 4/5/07, Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking for books on django. http://www.djangobook.com/ -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django us

Re: Django IDE

never found a way and I've looked many times. :( -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to dj

Re: Upgrade from Python 2.4 to 2.5

On 5/7/07, RollyF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I configure Apache2 or mod_python to use Python 2.5? Adjust your paths so the place where you installed your new Python 2.5 is ahead of your old Python's path. -- Greg Donald http:

Re: Upgrade from Python 2.4 to 2.5

our locate database is up to date. Run `updatedb` when in doubt. Some other things to check: Did you restart Apache? Are you compiling a new Python from source? If so did you add the Python libs path to your ld.so.config? Did you run ldconfig

Re: Upgrade from Python 2.4 to 2.5

ibs while in verbose mode of running > ldconfig. You wanna put the libs path of your new python install in there, something like /usr/local/python2.5/lib or whatever yours is exactly. After that run ldconfig so your system knows to look there for shared libraries from now on. --

Re: How well should I know Python before using Django?

Debugging. When you get stuck, and you will get stuck, you need to know best way to get unstuck. Being able to interrogate your environment is debugging skill #1. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Where did you put your homepage view?

On 5/23/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm juste curious, where did you put your homepage view when you've > got a project with a lot of apps? Is there a best practice here? I usually make a home controller. Then I typically use an index action for the home

Re: form name from the POST request

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Oleg Korsak wrote: > Hello. How can I get a form name from the POST request? As far as I know it's not sent. Use a hidden field to identify the form server side. > Also how can I explore a "request" object to see what it contains? print '%s&

django 1.4 memory issues

igured it couldn't hurt. So everything is running fine again, but something changed in Django 1.4 that causes my same project code to leak memory. I'd sure like to figure it out. Thanks. -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quo

Re: last changed by User

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > I wanted to display the user that last changed a model instance. I use django-reversion for this: https://github.com/etianen/django-reversion -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: Which Linux distro to use on EC2?

yourself. Things will land in the same place, so dependency issues are usually extremely low. -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To u

Re: Which Linux distro to use on EC2?

tion: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users

Re: Logging into CSRF protected Django site using Curl?

ted. Is this the only to login to a Django > site that uses CSRF protection? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/csrf/#exceptions I use this on views that my mobile apps post to. -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: Django vs. Ruby on Rails

s on this > comparison. Rails seems risky to me. Django feels like a sure bet. Maybe I'm just old, but sometimes I get the feeling Rails is being built by some kids in someone's basement. -- Greg Donald -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

view_func.__module__ suddenly broken

de python-problem-report 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 2013-01-25 03:41:06 upgrade python-apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu15.1 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1 I also tried rearranging my middleware list, didn't help. Any idea what else might be causing this issue? Thanks. -- Greg Donald -- You re

Re: Encrpting urls to hide PKs

n identifier of that data. Yeah, sounds exactly like a session-based cookie. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegrou

Re: using django on a server?

nything nowadays. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+un

Re: using django on a server?

all what you want. The question of "Does my host support that?" becomes irrelevant. You can support whatever because you can install whatever. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django u

Re: using django on a server?

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Eric Chamberlain wrote: > We use Amazon Web Services and can change our setup on an hourly basis. Do they support DNS yet, or are you still responsible for that yourself? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because

form new versus edit

.name.data throws an exception. What am I doing wrong? I'd really like to just have my one _form.html template included in both my add.html and my edit.html templates. How can I do that when the form doesn't even work the same between new versus editing? Thanks. -- Greg Donald destine

Re: form new versus edit

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote: > On 05/14/2011 05:04 PM, Greg Donald wrote: >> >> I have a "new" contact form.  If I post it, and it has error, I found >> (while debugging, not documented that I can find) that I can redraw >> the sub

Re: form new versus edit

e {{ form.name }} then I have to set CSS attributes for every field using: name = forms.CharField( widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'class':'special'})) How is that better than just writing a simple field myself? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received

Re: form new versus edit

into the > project, and if something's there it's probably for a really good reason. > When you choose not to follow a Django convention and run into a problem > then don't be surprised. I didn't realize trying to access my own form data directly was unconv

Re: form new versus edit

=TextInput( attrs={ 'class':'myclass' } ) ) in a single place for all my CharField types? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send ema

Re: form new versus edit

getting my name field HTML rendered, I naturally tried {{ form.id }}, but it doesn't seem to know about Django conventions I don't guess. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django user

existing data failing validation

, I get errors about not providing fields already set. form = ContactForm( request.POST, instance=contact ) form.errors says I need to provide a company, but it is already saved in the database. What am I missing here? -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this mes

Re: existing data failing validation

arField( max_length=32 ) class ContactForm( ModelForm ): class Meta: model = Contact name = CharField( required=True ) The fields failing validation are ones I'm not re-submitting back in my edit form. Am I supposed to list company again in my ContactForm class? Guess

Re: existing data failing validation

hen I don't include previously set data? ipdb> form.errors {'company': [u'This field is required.']} -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to thi

Re: existing data failing validation

se the company no longer exists when I post the form, even though it's right there in the post data. This is so overly complicated. What is the point of having a model form if you're just going to exclude important things from it to cheat to get by an edit form? -- Greg Donald destin

boolean default

How do I set a default for a BooleanField() ? I tried foo = models.BooleanField( default=False ) but that only produces foo boolean NOT NULL, Docs do not mention how as far as I can tell http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/fields/#booleanfield -- Greg Donald destiney.com

Re: boolean default

not provide a value at all when I created a new record. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

Re: boolean default

expected, but that's not what I get. See the code I posted. My Form Model complains that my BooleanField type is missing when I do not supply it explicitly. Further, if I exclude it, to make my Form Model happy, I get a DatabaseError exception since the field in my database has no default set

ImageField issue

ot sure why image_file.read() is returning a str, it spews a bunch of what appears to be image data when I debug it. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: ImageField issue

    f = open('/tmp/hello.world') >     myfile = File(f) >     et.image.save( image_name, myfile ) > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.FieldFile.save I see now.. got it working. Thanks. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You

sorl thumbnail

raise IOError(message + " when reading image file") IOError: broken data stream when reading image file The error isn't very helpful since the file is there and is readable by all. I'm not sure how to get a more explicit error, or what to try and fix. Stuck. Thanks, --

Re: sorl thumbnail

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Greg Donald wrote: >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line > 52, in raise_ioerror >   raise IOError(message + " when reading image file") > > IOError: broken data stream when reading image file

Re: sorl thumbnail

ImageField. It is, it's a sorl thumbnail ImageField to be exact. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.c

Re: sorl thumbnail

and my uploaded image is not corrupt. The only thing left is permissions, and they are as open as they can be. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: sorl thumbnail

So what does one use for thumbnails when sorl thumbnail works great in development but fails on two different production servers? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.