Re: A template proposal

2008-11-14 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:56 PM, ek_wals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to me that this kind of thing is easily translated to Django > templates, > quicker to type, easier to read, and infinitely extendable. > > Any thoughts before I begin playing? Feel free to write it. I wouldn't get any

Re: How can we improve performance in the Admin when loading profile pages with ManyToMany fields?

2008-11-14 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Eric Chamberlain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have five or so ManyToMany fields (with 10,000+ and growing total > entires in each field, only a few are selected for any one profile) in > our user profile. When we bring up the profile in the admin, the page > ta

ANN: Django 1.0.1 released

2008-11-14 Thread James Bennett
Tonight we've released Django 1.0.1, a bugfix release in the 1.0 series containing improvements and fixes since the 1.0 release. This is a recommended upgrade for anyone currently running Django 1.0. The blog entry announcing the release is here: http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/nov/15/10

Re: No models show up in my admin interface

2008-11-15 Thread James Purser
so I can begin to get > back on the right path here. > > Cheers, Hi Dash, I believe the method for bringing models up in 1.0+ has changed from previous. Instead you need to now add the following: from django.contrib import admin in your import statements and then use the following

Re: ANN: Django 1.0.1 released

2008-11-15 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, looks like something went wrong there. James is offline at the > moment, but he'll fix it when he gets a chance. The security-aware user > will avoid using the tarballs until they're fi

Re: ANN: Django 1.0.1 released

2008-11-15 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:48 AM, leonel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ive downloaded the tar.gz from > http://www.djangoproject.com/download/1.0.1/tarball/ > > and the md5sum does not match the md5sum from: > http://media.djangoproject.com/pgp/Django-1.0.1-final.checksum.txt OK, so here's what ha

Re: ANN: Django 1.0.1 released

2008-11-15 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:42 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. When I rolled the release last night, I did 'python manage.py > sdist' to generate the package, then uploaded it to the > djangoproject.com server. (and obviously I meant 'setup.py sdi

Re: Django - Python 3

2008-11-16 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Leonel Nunez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will there be many changes for django with python 3 As this is a fairly common question, *please* consider searching the list archives for information. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best ki

Re: Built-in Reference - docutils

2008-11-17 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Horus Kol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TemplateDoesNotExist at /admin/doc/ > > Anyone got any ideas? It helps to have the admin docs application (which is *not* 'django.contrib.admin', but rather 'django.contrib.admindocs') in your INSTALLED_APPS, so that its bun

ANN: Django 1.0.2 released

2008-11-18 Thread James Bennett
Tonight, to clear up some problems with the packaging of the Django 1.0.1 release from Friday, we've released Django 1.0.2; once again, this is a bugfix-only release, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone targeting or using Django 1.0 or Django 1.0.1. Weblog entry announcing the release is here

Re: Keeping fields out of the Admin

2008-11-20 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Epinephrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I keep the field from being editable in the Admin edit page > for that class? I don't really mean to sound rude in saying this, but your best bet is probably to read through the documentation for the admin: http://

Re: Novice has doubt!

2008-11-27 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 8:12 PM, boloris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you help-me? The error tells you that some edit you have made to your settings file caused it to no longer be a valid Python source-code file. Your best bet is to perhaps try out a Python tutorial to learn the Python prog

Re: Django abstract base class and table structure

2008-11-27 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From experience with other ORM platforms (nHibernate, custom built), > I'd expect this to flatten out to a table with approximately the > structure: You probably want to read the official Django documentation on how model i

Missing base.css link in admin html pages

2008-11-28 Thread James Fassett
ure it out and google has been no help. Has anyone seen this? I'm running apache2, mod_python with nginx as a proxy. Django is trunk (rev 9534) Thanks, James. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quo

Missing base.css link in admin html pages

2008-11-28 Thread James Fassett
If I browse to /media/css/login.css I see that css fine, so the problem is the HTML (not paths). I can't figure it out and google has been no help. Has anyone seen this? I'm running apache2, mod_python with nginx as a proxy. Django is trunk (rev 9534) Thanks, James.

Re: Missing base.css link in admin html pages

2008-11-28 Thread James Fassett
of the old data and instead create symlinks to my local tunk version. That fixed it up. My debugging clue was editing the admin templates with some garbage only to see the resultant html not update. A few searches later in python2.5/site-packages and all was clear. On Nov 28, 4:38 pm, James

Re: Get values of HTML Select Multiple Tag From request.POST

2008-11-29 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:19 AM, jai_python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Issue that I found out is "The variable 'colour' gets overwritten > everytime when the user selects different values". Then how come it is > possible that the request.POST shows all selected values. And why am > not getting t

Re: Admin - Auto Generate user_id on save

2008-11-29 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM, AJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to the vairables self and commit. So as far as I can tell I can't do > this in the Admin. It looks like I would need to write my own custom > form and view. Is this correct, or is there another way to do this? Consult the documen

Re: Does Django have a function that can be called by every view function ?

2008-11-30 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM, David Shieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think your solution can resolve my problem.But does it a bit > complex ? > In fact , what I really want is a view function that will be called by > every view function. > i.e. , if I wrote an auth system , I need to authe

Re: typo in the Django book

2008-12-01 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:05 PM, coldlight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another one: in the file Please don't do this; this is not the errata mailing list for "The Definitive Guide to Django", it is the mailing list for discussion of and by users of Django, and every time you post a message here y

Re: Question from django beginner

2008-12-02 Thread James Bennett
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Is there any built-in opton in Django (0.97 version) to unzip There is no such thing as "Django 0.97". Releases of Django are as follows: 0.90 0.91 0.95 0.96 1.0 (with minor bugfix releases on several of them, like "0.96.1" a

Re: Adjusting PYTHONPATH for reusable django apps

2008-12-02 Thread James Bennett
For what it's worth, I'm a huge fan of virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv and of Doug Hellmann's virtualenvwrapper: http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/ What virtualenv does, basically, is create an isolated Python environment into which you can install stuff

Re: Webservers, Django thread-safeness, etc.

2008-12-03 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:45 AM, SteveB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had positive experiences with the standalone CherryPy webserver > Although I can't prove it, I'm suspicious that the problem may be that > Django is not thread safe. Can anyone state for a fact that it is > safe to use Djan

Re: Python 3.0 released - what's the status of Django vs. 3.0?

2008-12-04 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:37 PM, ohmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the subject says - will Django compile and run on Python 3.0? No, nor is it expected to for at least a year or two, something entirely consistent with the general plan for pretty much all Python software to migrate. If you're g

Re: VPS Hosting - Webkeepers

2008-12-04 Thread James Matthews
I haven't heard anything and I think you should try posting this on webhosting forums asking them. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 8:52 PM, John M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone tried this for django? http://www.webkeepers.com/index.html > > entry level is 6.95/mo, great for QA site I would think.

Re: Invalid block tag: render_comment_form (repost)

2008-12-05 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Florian Lindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last time I used Django (pre 1.0) it was recommended to always use > trunk since the last released version was too outdated. Has this > changed? Yes. 0.96 -> 1.0 involved a large number of backwards-incompatible changes

Re: djangobook.com sourcecode

2008-12-05 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Manu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has the source code for djangobook.com ever released ? Is there a plan > to release it if it is not released ? And lastly does anyone know of > any projects which can provide the comments functionality of > djangobook.com ? If you

Re: ModelForm removing blank=True

2008-12-09 Thread James Bennett
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:50 PM, tenni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "optional_field" becomes a required field in the Admin. I assume > something is overriding the model's blank=True for this field. Yes. *You* are overriding that. The moment you override a field's definition in a ModelForm is the

Installing two Django sites using FastCGI

2008-12-10 Thread James Matthews
I am running one django site on dreamhost and now i want to run another. When setting up my site i needed to set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to my current site. Now i want to run another site... How do i go about this. Thanks James -- http://www.astorandblack.com

Re: user_id in admin pages

2008-12-10 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Django Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is probably an easy one, but I've tried what make sense to me with > not success. What I want to do is in my admin pages, use the User > module and enter the the user_id of whoever is logged in to add an entry > in o

Re: No documentation link on admin interface.

2008-12-12 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > which isn't as far out of bounds as it looks. You get there from the 1.0 > release notes, to the porting document, which then links to that page. > But, for people coming directly to Django 1.0, we've missed something. > I'll fix that w

Re: How to return a specified column from database

2008-12-13 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Lee wrote: >If I want to return a specified column in this situation without > using SQL query (select y from table where x =1), how to do it? There is a method which will do this, and it is listed in the database API documentation alongside all the other que

Re: Problem with field validation in 1.02

2008-12-16 Thread James Bennett
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:44 AM, rtmie wrote: > OK, got it working: > changed view code to: > if request.method =='POST': >form = AppUserForm(request.POST,request.FILES) This is covered in the forms documentation; you may want to give it a read to learn how the django.forms module works

Re: Anyone maintaining a Svn repo for django-registration?

2008-12-16 Thread James Bennett
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:23 AM, shabda wrote: > Django registration has moved from googlecode to Bitbucket, which > means my projects which are svn:externaled to django-registration > might not get the latest code. Is anyone maintaining an svn repository > which is I can svn:external to? You kn

Re: ModelForms customization conundrum

2008-12-16 Thread James Bennett
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:19 AM, sagi s wrote: > So I'm looking at the data available in the template to try to get my > hands dirty and restore all this manually but can't find how all this > magic works. I'm in the debugger looking at the form passed to the > template via the context and this l

SyncDB failure

2008-12-17 Thread James PIC
t;"" -name = models.CharField(_('name'), max_length=50) +name = models.CharField(_('name'), max_length=100) content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) -codename = models.CharField(_('codename'), max_length=100) +codename = models.Char

Re: SQL injection hardening

2008-12-17 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Travis Veazey wrote: > if you have a database you risk > being exposed to SQL injection attacks if you do not harden your app against > them. This is actually two statements: 1. If you have a SQL database, you run some theoretical risk of SQL injection attacks

Re: auth: get_profile(): create if it does not exist.

2008-12-17 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > This would be the "standard" solution. I thought James Bennett's > django-profiles app did this, but apparently I'm mistaken (it would be > slightly duplicated work if it did, in any case). django-pr

Re: SyncDB failure

2008-12-19 Thread James PIC
On 12/17/08, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:30 PM, James PIC wrote: > > > > Is it worth reporting the bug? > > However, at a guess, I'm going to say that the problem has been caused > by your choice of model names. You appear to

Re: Restricting add in the admin

2008-12-19 Thread James PIC
els/base.py. Regards, James. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Restricting add in the admin

2008-12-19 Thread James PIC
On 12/19/08, Peter wrote: > > > > > > You could make such a check and deny the saving of a new FrontPage > > object by overloading the save() method of class FrontPage. > > Source in trunk: django/db/models/base.py. > > > > Regards, James. >

Re: MySpace clone using Django? Is it possible?

2008-12-19 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:41 PM, lekvar...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, I wanna know wich of the well known frameworks is the best choice > for myspace-clone community website. Since you're basically going to be throwing money away no matter what ("cloning" an established player and trying to beat th

Re: SyncDB failure

2008-12-20 Thread James PIC
>> Just for kidding: >> class Lot(Mandat, Bien, PourLocation, PourVente, LotAddresse, >> AvecEquipementsAnnexes, Textes, Immeuble): >> It was that, or models with thousands of similar fields, high WTF/hour :) > > just be thankful you aren't coding in german :) It's very business-spec

Re: Restricting add in the admin

2008-12-20 Thread James PIC
ch what is currently the front page (or to >> audition the new front page). >> > > Yes - perhaps add a Boolean field (not shown in the admin) > 'is_active' Very relevant, don't forgot to overload the save method to set other is_active to 0! Regards, James. -

Re: Can anyone explain why reverse() never seems to work?

2008-12-20 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Bradley Wright wrote: > Given the following code, can anyone explain why Django can't reverse > this, because I'm of the opinion that reverse is the flakiest function > ever: The permalink decorator is a shortcut which will, on its own, apply reverse() to what th

Re: Optional fields in admin page

2008-12-21 Thread James PIC
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mirat Can Bayrak wrote: > > hi, i have a state selection which has options "exists", "not exists" and > "redirected" when it is selected as exists i want to show some more fields, > but on other selections i dont want him to show them. can i do that it django?

Fwd: Optional fields in admin page

2008-12-21 Thread James PIC
Errata, this email has correct sources, sorry for the pollution. On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mirat Can Bayrak wrote: > > hi, i have a state selection which has options "exists", "not exists" and > "redirected" when it is selected as exists i want to show some more fields, > but on other s

Re: python 3.0

2008-12-26 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:15 PM, waltbrad wrote: > How much of django's code is broken with python 3.0? The installation instructions and the installation FAQ cover this issue: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/install/#install-python http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/install/#

Re: django i18n for google

2008-12-28 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Alessandro Ronchi wrote: > Django itselfs permits selecting the i18n language via POST. I think > it should be useful to add also a GET var to set the language, and a > localization middleware catches it. This has been debated to death, and the conclusion is that

Re: enumerate in templates

2008-12-29 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Vicky wrote: > command like below is not working... can u suggest a way?? It is very, very, very, very important to read the big warning at the top of the template documentation, which states that the Django template language *is not* just Python code embedded in

Django with shared host FastCGI

2008-12-29 Thread James Gregory
I tried using the guide here: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/?from=olddocs to set up Django using FastCGI. 1. It kept just hanging with a never ending loading cursor whenever I tried going to the fcgi page. I eventually discovered, through immense trial and error,

Re: a error occurs while use comment framework

2008-12-29 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:38 AM, Shuge Lee wrote: > return render_to_response( 'a.html', {'obj': obj, 'category': > Category} ) > > a.html > ... > {% load comments %} > {% render_comment_form for category %} The problem may be that you are passing Category -- the model which represents all categ

Re: Django with shared host FastCGI

2008-12-30 Thread James Matthews
Which host are you using? I am on dreamhost and it works very nice. also try searching on google your hosts name and django to see if someone created a tutorial on it. On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:57 AM, James Gregory wrote: > > I tried using the guide here: > http://docs.djangoproject.c

Re: Looking for Django-Pinax developers for music production community

2008-12-30 Thread James Matthews
Thank you for your interest in Django. You may also post this job offer on djangogigs.com Much Success James On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Pancrazio wrote: > > Hi group! > > we are a startup working on a community-based music production > website. > > We are looking

Re: Do you recommend "Practical Django Projects"?

2009-01-05 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 5, 2:21 am, HB wrote: > Hey, > I'm reading "The Definitive Guide To Django" but it is too out dated. > Do you recommend "Practical Django Projects" instead? > It seems to me that "The Definitive Guide To Django" is more organized > and covers a lot of materials. > What do you think? As th

Re: Why Django doesn't force testing?

2009-01-05 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 5, 6:04 am, HB wrote: > Sure, I mean encourage not force :) Your email client apparently failed to generate tests for your message, resulting in a misunderstanding. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: Your IDE of choice

2009-01-06 Thread James Matthews
Netbeans or WingIDE for me. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM, HB wrote: > > Hey, > What is your favorite IDE for coding Django projects? > Any ideas about PyDev and ActiveState Komodo IDE? > Thanks. > > > -- http://www.goldwatches.com/ http://www.jewelerslounge.com/ --~--~-~--~~--

Re: Your IDE of choice

2009-01-06 Thread James Matthews
Yes it is however i still find it to be very powerful and i really like it! On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Nikolay Panov wrote: > > Emacs (23, +Rope, +auto-complete.el), indeed. > > Have a nice day, >Nikolay. > > > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 14:48, HB wrote: > > > > Hey, > > What is your favo

Re: Get Request Url

2009-01-11 Thread James Matthews
Thank You (I had the same question today) 2009/1/12 burcu hamamcıoğlu > Thanks Bruno request.get_full_path() is enough for me . > > Best regards > > 09 Ocak 2009 Cuma 18:31 tarihinde bruno desthuilliers < > bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> yazdı: > > >> >> >> On 9 jan, 17:06, "burcu hamamcıoğlu"

Re: template inheritance

2009-01-11 Thread James Matthews
Not always sometimes you want to show some template code (You have a blog about web dev) and sometimes you want to nest some code. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > Alex K schrieb: > >> While building a website using template inheritance one usually does >> the following

Overloading ModelFormMetaclass, to implement a custom __init__() method and use ModelForm in a factory

2009-01-13 Thread James PIC
m 97. form = form_class(instance=self.model, jpic_field_options=options) Exception Type: TypeError at /component/1/ticket/create/ Exception Value: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'jpic_field_options' Please don&

Re: Overloading ModelFormMetaclass, to implement a custom __init__() method and use ModelForm in a factory

2009-01-13 Thread James PIC
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM, James PIC wrote: > That's what i'm actually trying to do: > > # todo : get a more descriptive FC prefix than "jpic" > class JpicModelFormMetaclass(ModelFormMetaclass): >""" >Inherit from this, then u

Fwd: [wingide-users] Integrating with django's unit tests

2009-01-14 Thread James Matthews
-- Forwarded message -- From: Philip Gatt Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:10 AM Subject: [wingide-users] Integrating with django's unit tests To: wingide-us...@wingware.com Does anyone know how to integrate Wing with Django's unit tests? With my django projects, I usually run my uni

Problems with (Model)ChoiceField and the like

2009-01-14 Thread James Smagala
uggestions are welcome! Please help! James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Where is the source code for Practical Django Projects?

2008-07-17 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:14 AM, Phillip Parrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm also looking for the souce code, mainly i'm looking for the > advanced templates you mention when building the weblog. Did you get > the chance to finish the source? I'm tracking down one other reported issue which -

Re: Django vs. Kohana

2008-07-17 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Henrik Bechmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone with experience or knowledge of both Django and Kohana (PHP > framework, son of CodeIgniter) list contexts in which each would be > most appropriate? I'm in a selection process right now with both on > the sho

Re: Django installation issue

2008-07-17 Thread James Matthews
I don't see much but it seems your aren't mapping you urls properly. Please post your urls.py on http://dpaste.com/ then email the link. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:48 AM, zbiju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I'm noobie with python and django but I would like to try it. > I have instal

Re: Great work with newforms-admin

2008-07-19 Thread James Punteney
I believe this is the page he is referring to: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsAdminBranch Another one that might be helpful: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/NewformsHOWTO --James On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Ramdas S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom, > > Can

Re: Is Django development active?

2008-07-20 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Hussein B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got that illusion due the slow official releases cycle... Be careful with this logic, because it is misleading. For example: Britain has not had a new Prime Minister since June 2007; does this mean the British Government ha

Re: autodiscover() fails too silently...

2008-07-21 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Amit Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > autodiscover() goes over INSTALLED_APPS and tries to import their admin > modules. When such a module isn't present, ImportError is caught and > consumed. However, if some admin module do exists, but for some reason it > t

Re: Making a Form from a model using ModelForms, but dont want to include the ForeignKey variable in the form

2008-07-21 Thread James Bennett
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Django_newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This save() fails because the form.is_valid() is not true, and the > Blog(foreignkey) field is missing from the post data, how can i make > this save without letting user choose this blog field? Or is it > necessary that t

Re: Model Meta verbose_name setter

2008-07-22 Thread James PIC
recommend for > you. All I can say is that none of your attempts will work without > Meta being instantiated, which Django doesn't (and likely won't) do. I'm trying to use the value of a field of the model for Meta verbose_name. James --~--~-~--~~~-

Re: Django Newbie

2008-07-22 Thread James Matthews
I would recommend on learning python before looking at django. It would explain why things have to be in your PYTHONPATH and answer many questions Etc.. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22-Jul-08, at 12:36 PM, Sthembile Ngidi wrote: > > > I'm

Re: how to display date nicely

2008-08-18 Thread James Bennett
2008/8/18 Will Rocisky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > actually I have to do it in views, not template > I need some pure python code All Python datetime objects support the 'strftime' method, which is what you want to use. Consult Python's documentation for the full details. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you

Re: django deploymennts

2008-08-19 Thread James Matthews
To deploy my apps i use a set of bash and python scripts. They are useful because of unique environment i am deploy in. On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Norman Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Robin wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to decide which tool should I use to deploy my django >

Re: how to locate the OS currently logged in user??

2008-08-20 Thread James Matthews
I assume you are using linux. But in windows it's like this import os os.environ ['USERPROFILE'].split('\\')[-1] James On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:53 AM, PeteDK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 20 Aug., 17:56, "Emily Rodgers" &

Re: Renaming of mailing lists to avoid user confusion

2008-08-20 Thread James Matthews
big issue then make a poll and people can vote on what they want. James P.S I don't use googles web interface for me it's outlook express (mailing list) On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Norman Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > Because

Fwd: Prevalent Python/Django academic software

2008-08-20 Thread James Matthews
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM Subject: Prevalent Python/Django academic software To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is anyone working on any software at present, using django or python in general, which serves various academ

Re: Reverse URL Questions

2008-08-21 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Rodney Topor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So: Why is the use of explicit URLs discouraged, especially in > templates? Why is it better to write {% url > project_name.app_name.views.results %} in a template than to write / > results/ (assuming the URLconf maps /res

Re: auto urls for methods

2008-08-21 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Will Rocisky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible (like Rails) to not to enter every method and it's url > everytime? And url should go to the method straight unless defined. No. 1. Python's general philosophy is that it's best to explicitly say what you w

Re: lighttpd + fcgi + FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = admin grief

2008-08-21 Thread James Matthews
Try FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME="" I use it and it works nicely James On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Nick Clarey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been getting my site ported over to 1.0 beta and ran into a > problem. Basically everything works f

Re: Python - ImportError: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file

2008-08-21 Thread James Matthews
Hi, First go to ./manage.py shell and try the same thing "import djproject.daily_source". If it works there it means it's not a django issue and your server is stripping out this lib (Suexec) James On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:38 AM, 杨明 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: lighttpd + fcgi + FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = admin grief

2008-08-22 Thread James Matthews
httpd was rewriting it to point to / and django was putting in the script. All you needed to do it tell django to stop and it works wonders :) Enjoy! James On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Malcolm, > > Great; James' suggestion d

Re: 500.shtml

2008-08-22 Thread James Matthews
When i run on a shared provider i restart my server by running touch /mywebdir/dispatch.fcgi On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Emily Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Hi Ronaldo, > > It is not a python script, just a shell script that either runs 'python > manage.py runfcgi' with various opti

Re: QuerySets are scary!

2008-08-23 Thread James Bennett
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Viktor Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this true or both my test and real code are simply wrong? I was > kinda shocked from this The problem here is basically conceptual. You've assumed that, because it supports some of the same operations as a list, a QueryS

Re: unregister in old versions of django

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:04 AM, aleray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really no idea ? Well, you could always do the following: >>> from django.contrib import admin >>> help(admin.site) Which shows you full API documentation for the AdminSite class, listing all of its methods and what they do, i

Re: unregister in old versions of django

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:40 AM, aleray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the tip, I often forgot the existence of python doc! > However the thing is in the version of django I'm using there is not > admin.site, so no API to unregister. Like I said, the models are > registered with the old f

Re: HTML in ValidationError?

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:07 AM, coan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder why custom error messages are considered more dangerous than > the help_text in the same form? Because people do things like this: class HackMySiteForm(forms.Form): some_text = forms.CharField(max_length=255) de

Re: unregister in old versions of django

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 6:23 AM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which shows you full API documentation for the AdminSite class, > listing all of its methods and what they do, including this one: (and of course if you have DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set properly, there's

Re: Showing staff users from another model

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there better ways to do this? Yes. from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Car(models.Model): brand = models.CharField(max_length=20) color = models.CharField(max_length=10)

Re: limiting choices in admin.ModelAdmin based on request.user

2008-08-24 Thread James Bennett
2008/8/25 krylatij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can use ThreadLocals middleware > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser > to get current user No. There is no longer any reason whatsoever to use this in any way in the admin. It was an ugly, fragile hack before and it's unn

Re: Module not callable (Practical Django Projects)

2008-08-26 Thread James Bennett
2008/8/26 marsii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But I have the same error still. :-( I'll bet money that you have this: import markdown When the book tells you to do this: from markdown import markdown There's a very important difference. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the b

Re: ImportError: No module named core

2008-08-26 Thread James Matthews
install Django. James On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:24 PM, richr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make sure the unzipping tool that you used to uncompress the Django > kit preserves empty files like __init__.py. WinZip, in particular, > does not always do this. > > On Jul 15, 1:

ANN: Django 1.0 beta 2 released

2008-08-27 Thread James Bennett
As part of the run up to the final Django 1.0 release (scheduled for next week!), tonight we've pushed out Django 1.0 beta 2, including the final new features for 1.0 (mainly a refactoring of django.contrib.comments). As a beta release, we of course don't recommend it for production use, but if yo

Re: Complex, somewhat formula...

2008-08-27 Thread James Bennett
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could I do this with Django? You could do it with Python, and then use Django to make it visible over the Web, yes. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~-

Re: running Django on a very small VPS

2008-08-27 Thread James Matthews
Use sqllite instead of a regular DB Server. Also set a usage limit on Apache. You Should be fine. Many people run Django in a shared environment. like Webfaction and Dreamhost. Where you have a limit on the memory you can use. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Edwin W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: newbie question - import conflicts

2008-08-27 Thread James Matthews
Make the structer sitedir (manage.py urls.py,settings.py)->app(models.py views.py) And import it accordingly If your code is running in the sitedir then it should be able to import it. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Tim Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your app folder must be in the

Re: setting a form to invalid after having called form.is_valid()

2008-08-27 Thread James Matthews
In your forum code you can add the clean_imageForm and add your cleaning code in there. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> I have an image upload form and I want to INvalidate the form if the >> uploaded image it too big. How can I get an error

Re: setting a form to invalid after having called form.is_valid()

2008-08-27 Thread James Matthews
Whoops I pressed send too soon. In your forms code create a method called clean_imageForm and add your custom error code there. On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 1:33 PM, James Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your forum code you can add the clean_imageForm and add your cleaning > c

Re: Generate admin files. Views and Templates with Django?

2008-08-28 Thread James Matthews
When you create a project you run a command (python manage.py startapp test) that creates the directory and the model and view files. However if you want the app to use the admin interface you must explicitly state it in your models.py file or admin.py (which you need to create) If you wish to auto

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