Re: Databases, one or many

2007-09-06 Thread James Bennett
On 9/6/07, Adam Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This actually brings up an issue. I've heard that many Django developers > don't > use projects at all, that they just use apps. Is this correct? Should I > default to one > project and break it up into smaller ones if the need arises? First of

Re: Django Book

2007-09-07 Thread James Bennett
On 9/7/07, Griffin Caprio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may have been answered already, but I couldn't find it. Which is strange, because this thread comes up if you go to the Google Groups page and search for "djangobook status": http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread

Re: alter FreeComment date/time?

2007-09-07 Thread James Bennett
On 9/7/07, Drasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless there's some way to override this without actually tweaking the > source code? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#raw-saves -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--

Re: Multi-table lookup ... ?

2007-09-08 Thread James Bennett
On 9/8/07, dbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have a campaign object that has 3 groups in it. And I want to > find all the reminder objects that are in those groups ... unless of > course it's a campaign with no groups in it - in which case I'd like > all the reminders associated with that cam

Re: Capisdjango

2007-09-08 Thread James Bennett
On 9/8/07, Chris Hoeppner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why hasn't anyone thought of something like capistrano for django. (Yeah > I know it can work, but there're a few features for RoR'ers). Lots of people have thought of it. What they haven't done is written it. Want to be the first? ;) -- "B

Re: php fsockopen equivalent in Django

2007-09-09 Thread James Bennett
On 9/9/07, Arnold Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing an application that require "silent" post of data to a > specific URL. I know that is a function fsockopen in PHP which can > achieve this, and i am looking for function in Django like that. http://docs.python.org/lib/module-socket.

Re: php fsockopen equivalent in Django

2007-09-10 Thread James Bennett
On 9/10/07, Brett Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it looked like he wanted to talk HTTP, maybe it'd be better to point > to: > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib.html > http://docs.python.org/lib/module-urllib2.html > > Which let you do GET and POST really quite nicely

Re: Time Zone Errors

2007-09-10 Thread James Bennett
On 9/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the problem that occured while putting the same code on the server is > a Time Zone Error. No, it is not. Read the error message carefully: PostgreSQL is not saying the SET TIME ZONE was problematic, it is saying "an error occurred in one

Re: When 1.0 ?

2007-09-10 Thread James Bennett
On 9/10/07, est <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I am a new web developer in django. Could anyone tell me when will > django go to 1.0? Search the archives of this mailing list for your answer. > Will django support py3k? Considering that Python 3.0 isn't due to be released until late next year,

Re: How to refer to a class defined later in the file

2008-01-07 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 7, 2008 7:59 AM, shabda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This line gives me an error, > revision_for = models.ForeignKey(Page, related_name = 'revision_for') > as NameError: name 'Page' is not defined, obviously because page is > defined later in the file. I can not put PageRevision later as Pa

Re: Context processor a bit too helpful

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 8, 2008 12:47 AM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I say "no thanks" to this helpfulness so my html can to thru? By reading the Django template documentation, which covers this in some detail. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct

Re: Adding a request.user to a ModelForm instance

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 7, 2008 8:03 PM, Car <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to add field formerly excluded in ModelForm in view > like in this example below: Yes, but you're not "adding a field". You're simply getting back a model object and then you're 100% done with the ModelForm. What you do with

Re: read only in Admin interface

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 8, 2008 10:17 AM, Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have looked while for a answer to my problem but unfortunately I > haven't found a one, maybe I had to spend more time. However I have a > project with some applications. By using of Admin we can Create, Read, > Update and Delete (CRUD

Re: Adding a request.user to a ModelForm instance

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 8, 2008 11:16 AM, l5x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This should help you: > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser No. That's a nasty, ugly, horrible hack that's about fifty times more complicated than what's actually needed to do this. He got it right the first tim

Re: read only in Admin interface

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 8, 2008 12:14 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another dirty solution would be to simply create a user account, and > give it permissions to only view things. I haven't played with > permissions at all, but I imagine it would be possible. > The correct way is still to write yo

Re: anyone have luck with http://code.google.com/p/django-pyodbc/

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
Python module names cannot include hyphens, so 'django-pyodbc.db.mssql' is not a valid Python module name regardless of whether you have the code on your system. Try renaming the module to not include a hyphen. Also, make sure you're using a recent SVN checkout of Django; the ability to use exter

Re: Print view

2008-01-08 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 8, 2008 6:27 PM, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only way I know to accomplish this is to modify the admin template, > and display a link based on the name of the model, as determined by the > template logic. > Is this the best way to do this? or is there a cleaner way? Thin

Re: django-registration mysterious errror

2008-01-10 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 10, 2008 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > File "/home/grmadmin/webapps/django/classic/registration/views.py", > line 35, in activate >account.backend = 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend' There is not and never has been any such line of code in django-re

Re: django-registration mysterious errror

2008-01-10 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 10, 2008 9:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless I've gone utterly mad, it IS django-registration. I remember > installing django-registration, and most all of the code looks just > like django-registration, albeit an older version. Not that any of > that explains the

Re: How are the ids for Django models calculated?

2008-01-11 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 11, 2008 11:02 AM, shabda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How are the values calculated. If Django asks the DB to provide it > those values, can we be sure, for all supported backends, that > 1. The ids are auto incrementing, (and not just unique). > 2. They start from zero. > 3. The differen

Re: #! ??

2008-01-11 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 11, 2008 9:03 PM, kbochert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] public_html]# ./tmp3 > -bash: ./tmp3: /usr/local/bin/python2.5^M: bad interpreter: No such > file or directory Try running 'dos2unix' on that file to convert the line endings to the proper Unix style. -- "Bureaucr

Re: Auto login

2008-01-11 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 11, 2008 8:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get access to that backend? The Django auth documentation covers this; look at the note on the documentation for the 'login()' function (in the section on how to log a user in manually). -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you

Re: dynamic choices in a ChoiceField

2008-01-13 Thread James Bennett
2008/1/13 Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When you explicitly write list in choices it evaluates at module > import type. To avoid this write function and pass it as 'choices' > parameter Or... deck = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=Deck.objects.all()) -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are tec

Re: file upload RAM buffer or stream to tmp

2008-01-14 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 14, 2008 12:01 PM, Vance Dubberly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kind of a bummer, guess I'll be using cherrypy for this project. Was > hoping to use django but it looks like there is no way to hook into > the request response loop before the request is parsed. :( If streaming uploads are vi

Re: Problem with Css and django template

2008-01-15 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 15, 2008 1:08 AM, laspal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This: > (r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', > {'document_root': '/home/laspal/trytemplate/Template/', > 'show_indexes' : True}), Does not match the URL in this: > type="text/css" href="testing1.css" /> So change one

Re: Django Performance

2008-01-15 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 15, 2008 10:07 AM, Sadjad Fouladi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a question. I'm going to use Django for my new website. Can I > use django in a shared hosting environment or I need to buy a > Dedicated server? Does Django need a lot of RAM, like Rails? Please > note that, this site mi

Re: A bug (I'm being rejected from submitting a ticket, as it thinks I'm a spammer. I'M NOT!

2008-01-15 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 15, 2008 9:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know I should have sent it using a ticket, but I'm being rejected > for some reason as a spammer. Hope this one will go throgh. Quoting from the "New ticket" page: "If you're getting rejected by the spam filter, we apologi

Re: One to many issue in Django admin

2008-01-15 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 15, 2008 9:34 PM, oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Django admin I can add a track without specifying a file without a > problem however if I go into album and try to add a track that way. It > has an error saying that the file can not be null. It looks like you initially created the tab

Re: [beginner] Commonly used variables.

2008-01-15 Thread James Bennett
It's worth noting that I expanded that a bit and put it into my "template_utils" app: http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/ Sent from my iPod On Jan 15, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 16-Jan-08, at 3:26 AM, Petar wrote: > >> The thing is,

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-16 Thread James Bennett
Ladies and gents, you'll do everyone a favor if you don't rise to the bait here. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dj

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-16 Thread James Bennett
Again, folks: please don't rise to the bait ;) -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 5:00 AM, Grindizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - If you want to retrieve the current logged user at model level, this > is a little more complicated, because models are note designed to see > what happen at process level, but it still possible, look at this: Any code which requir

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 5:36 AM, Grindizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, i found this very handy, when we have to support a > multilingual db: getting the current language like this and use it to > select the right values in db can save us a lot of work, and result in > a more clear views code

Re: I think the django's froms js too complicated and not flexible , is there anybody agree?

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 6:30 AM, maoxl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > writing a html form is just NOT so complicated, and I really don't > think it deserve a py package as luxury as the > django.contrib.newfroms . why not just write html forms by hand . > I'm a new comer to django, hoping somebody tell me

Re: Help tracking down runaway RAM

2008-01-18 Thread James Bennett
Do you have "DEBUG = True" in your Django settings file? -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To po

Re: limit_choices_to in ModelForm

2008-01-19 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 19, 2008 3:51 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a limit_choices_to in my model - but this does work on my > ModelForm. How do I do this? Either set up the ModelChoiceField manually and specify the QuerySet, or hang on while I get around to adding tests to the patch

Re: Another database for unit tests

2008-01-19 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 19, 2008 5:05 PM, Jim Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's the common way of making unit tests use a different database > than what's in settings.DATABASE_{ENGINE,USER,PASSWORD,HOST,PORT}? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#test-database-name -- "Bureaucrat Con

Re: Another database for unit tests

2008-01-19 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 19, 2008 10:24 PM, Jim Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I knew I could override the NAME, but I'd like to override the > ENGINE,USER,PASSWORD,HOST, and PORT, too. Our settings are configured > for mysql/innodb, to match our production environment. But as our > test suite and ini

Re: differences between runserver and apache

2008-01-21 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 21, 2008 8:43 AM, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exception Type: ViewDoesNotExist at /admin/ > Exception Value: Tried new_message in module ridgemoor.core.views. Error was: > 'module' object has no attribute 'new_message' Most likely is that something that's different between yo

Re: considering django for The Freesound Project, some (de)constructive critisism

2008-01-21 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 21, 2008 10:22 AM, Bram - Smartelectronix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. huge numbers of users make the admin almost unusable. Almost any > objects is related to a user (or two). Having to load 500K users in a > form makes for ultra big and slow web pages. Is there a fix for this > somewhe

Re: Tutorial03: question about efficiency

2008-01-22 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 22, 2008 8:16 AM, code_berzerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this gives 5 Poll objects. I wonder if this is efficient way of > getting them? Does django get all rows first and then sort it and then > slice it to get only 5? Or is it optimized somehow. The question is if > its simplified fo

Re: Template Macros Like In Jinja

2008-01-22 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 21, 2008 8:30 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates > similar to what Jinja has (http://jinja.pocoo.org/)? No. The Jinja project was started specifically to add additional programming constructs that the Django tem

Re: Template Macros Like In Jinja

2008-01-22 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 22, 2008 4:15 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the reasoning behind not having and not planning to have macros > in django templates? they look like a very useful construct compliant > with DRY to me. Django's template system is meant to be a means of expressing pres

Re: How I see the SQL generated in the system in development?

2008-01-23 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 23, 2008 9:17 AM, Claudio Escudero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How I see the SQL generated in the system in development? > Its appears on the console? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/faq/#how-can-i-see-the-raw-sql-queries-django-is-running -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are tech

Re: How do you filter fields from queries?

2008-01-23 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 23, 2008 4:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In other words, how do I invoke a query and supply what is essentially > a column list in a SQL SELECT statement? By following the instructions in the nice documentation that's provided with Django: http://www.djangoproject.

newforms-admin replacement for core=True in inline models?

2008-01-24 Thread James T
more "core" fields using core=True. If the core fields are filled in, the related model is added. If the core fields are empty, the related model is removed." As core=True has been removed form newforms-admin how can I replicate this behavi

Re: newforms-admin replacement for core=True in inline models?

2008-01-25 Thread James T
ver, each time I save the parent object 3 blank related objects are being created (as I have extra=3 set). Is there a way around this problem? James --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django use

Re: Outputting individual fields of a Model form

2008-01-26 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 26, 2008 7:35 PM, almostvindiesel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I figured {{ form['recipe_name'] }} or > {{ unicode(form['recipe_name']) }} should work per the documentation > here: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/newforms/, but doing > so returns the following error within the te

Re: ForeignKey _id not so transparent

2008-01-26 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 26, 2008 11:36 PM, msoulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > instance = models.ForeignKey(TugInstance) > > When my form is submitted, I am assigning > > client.instance = form.clean_data['instance_id'] You can assign a numeric ID of a TugInstance object to 'instance_id' on a Client object. Yo

Re: exists created_at or updated_at ?

2008-01-27 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 27, 2008 10:54 AM, Claudio Escudero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know if there is something like created_at or updated_at of Ruby on > Rails. > These fields are filled automatically when saving and editing? For any DateField or DateTimeField, you can tell Django to automatically up

Re: Multiple sites

2008-01-27 Thread James Bennett
A better solution: 1. Completely forget that you ever learned from any source that it might be a good idea to have a project folder with the apps inside it; the tutorial does that because it's simpler and easier for purposes of introducing Django, but in real-world situations it's generally a ter

Re: Multiple columns for db_indexes ?

2008-01-27 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 27, 2008 10:35 PM, Hugh Bien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been googling around for a while, but I haven't found a way to create > indexes with multiple columns, ie. Several options: 1. Instead of 'syncdb', use the 'sqlall' option of manage.py and pipe the SQL into a file, then edit i

Re: user.get_absolute_url()

2008-01-28 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 28, 2008 6:49 AM, Artiom Diomin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example in Middleware, in process_request. You could "monkeypatch" > User on the fly. Or he could use the standard, documented method for overriding a model's get_absolute_url() method: http://www.djangoproject.com/documenta

Re: *Occasional* PostgreSQL Error

2008-01-29 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 29, 2008 10:04 PM, Mark Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, what's the state of connection pooling in django? My personal opinion is that the application level (e.g., Django) is the wrong place for connection pooling and for the equivalent "front end" solution of load balancin

Re: *Occasional* PostgreSQL Error

2008-01-29 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 29, 2008 11:18 PM, Mark Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree on the loadbalancer front but the overhead for all > those TCP connections (and pgpool managing them) worries me a bit. I've used pgpool in production with great success, so I'm not really sure what overhead you're talking

Re: Simultaneous edits

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 9:18 AM, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Django have any built-in way to handle or prevent simultaneous, > incompatible edits to a database record? No, that's what your database's concurrency handling is for. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct --

Re: Iterating over very large queryset

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 10:21 AM, Jarek Zgoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you share any hints on how to reduce the memory usage in such > situation? The underlying database structure is rather complicated and I > would like to not do all queries manually. At this level -- hundreds of thousands of ob

Re: *Occasional* PostgreSQL Error

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 8:57 AM, Mark Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, "Build for failure". Temporary overload can happen at any > time and I'd expect django to behave exceptionally bad in that > case as it is. Running out of resources is never a good thing for any system. > Disclaimer: I haven'

Re: why did admin delete my data?

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 2:22 PM, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > title = models.CharField("Title", core=True, max_length=80, blank=True, > null=True) > surname = models.CharField("Surname", max_length=65, core=True, > blank=True, > null=True) There's your culprit. Whenever you try t

Re: *Occasional* PostgreSQL Error

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 6:01 PM, Mark Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahem, there's a huge difference between being confronted with > a spinner/progress bar or an error page. The former speaks > "Please wait", the latter speaks "Try again". OK, so let's break this down. There are two potential cases

Re: *Occasional* PostgreSQL Error

2008-01-30 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 30, 2008 8:55 PM, Mark Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What ressources are held and wasted exactly? > Maintaining a number of open TCP connection is much cheaper > than creating/discarding them at a high rate. Every connection that one Django application holds on to is a connection that

Re: A slug question

2008-01-31 Thread James Punteney
> My question: what if I > have a weblog title that is identical to a post that I made 3 years > ago and I didn't realize it? when saving, is the slugfield smart > enough to acknowledge that there is a duplicate entry. The slug field itself doesn't force uniqueness, but you can use "unique=True"

Re: User permissions

2008-01-31 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 31, 2008 5:06 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been reading up on user permissions and I have found that user > permissions are on a per-model basis. My question: If I have a photo > gallery application, and I have several uses who can post their > galleries to this application.

Re: Image upload in user's directory

2008-02-01 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 1, 2008 12:57 AM, django_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want every image to be uploaded in the users directory like '// > %y/%m/%d' instead of all files in default location. There is no built-in automatic solution for this. However, like many things which are not built-in or automatic

Re: Read-only connection to database. How to?

2008-02-03 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 3, 2008 4:00 AM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What should I change to force the read-only access? Create a new database-level user, and grant that user SELECT but nothing else. Then fill in those credentials in the settings file used by the site. You can always set up a read/write "

Re: Read-only connection to database. How to?

2008-02-03 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 3, 2008 6:37 AM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found a trick that works for my use case. I just don't execute if > it's not a SELECT request. I do the test like so: Things your filter doesn't catch: * PostgreSQL's table-creating SELECT INTO statement. * Any "query" which consists

Re: Read-only connection to database. How to?

2008-02-03 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 3, 2008 7:59 PM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you please indicate how to do this? Once again, either: 1. Set up a second Django settings file, fill in the read-only user there, and use that settings file for the site that your clients use. 2. Write your custom query method s

Re: Foreign key being set to null when not null in form

2008-02-04 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 4, 2008 6:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as you can see, I hide the primary and foreign key fields (yes, I am > aware of the security implications: can we fix the real problem > please ;-) This is a real problem. You need to fix it, or someone will hack you. > >

Re: Accessing the Admin class

2008-02-04 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 4, 2008 1:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused. Normally, you can access an inner class simply: ...snip... > but this dosen't work with Admin: That's because django.db.models.Model is not a "normal" class, and hence no Django model class is; it has a metacla

Re: django.contrib.auth login method incorrectly documented?

2008-02-04 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 4, 2008 2:50 PM, Mojave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Docs say I pass both the request object and the authenticated user > object to the login method, but that fails - login expects only one > argument. Odds are that you are trying to call the *view* function django.contrib.auth.views.login

Re: Code upgrade

2008-02-05 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 5, 2008 12:33 PM, David Marquis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you didn't make any change to the Django source base, you can > simply download the latest release and install the new version. > If needed, you could also download the latest development version > through the Subversion reposi

Re: Read-only connection to database. How to?

2008-02-06 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 6, 2008 1:43 AM, koenb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could take a look at the multidb branch (specifically check out > ticket #4747). It is a bit behind on trunk, but the basics should > work. It allows you to define multiple connections, so you should be > able to connect to the same db

Re: User permissions

2008-02-06 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 6, 2008 11:57 AM, Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds quite interesting, but I'm not totally sure what you are > referring to. Do you mean the hooks the newforms admin branch provides > or maybe the possibilities of the row-level permissions branch? newforms-admin. row-level-pe

Re: User permissions

2008-02-06 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 6, 2008 4:38 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... though given the choices, I'd be inclined to wager that it's > closer to "now" than to "the heat death of the universe"... Probably, but I always include that in the time scale just in case. You know how tricky it is to es

Re: Code upgrade

2008-02-06 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 6, 2008 3:30 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does magic removal help to upgrade code from 91 to present or is it a > set of code used to assist with writing a potential application that > could do this? "Magic-removal" is not a script or a piece of code. It was the name given to the

Re: Get the current username on models.py

2008-02-07 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 7, 2008 12:15 PM, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If he's trying to get the logged in user instance in, say, his models > save() *and* he needs this to work from the Admin interface, he > doesn't have request.user available. That's what newforms-admin is for. -- "Bureaucrat C

Re: Get the current username on models.py

2008-02-07 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 7, 2008 11:44 AM, Henhiskan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > See:http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CookBookThreadlocalsAndUser > > Thanks a lot, is exactly that I was looking for This is a really bad idea; in almost 100% of cases, it's better to be writing something in your view which reads

Re: Using a drop down list as widget for filter in admin

2008-02-07 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 8, 2008 1:06 AM, Julien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't anybody really have an idea how to do this? :) Yes: sit down and take a look at how the admin templates display the list, then think about how you'd change it to produce a element with individual elements for each value. In al

Re: How to use multiple selection with POST method

2008-02-08 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 8, 2008 9:15 AM, MADDY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > User can select, for example, 3 options (not need to be consecutive) > from 10 possible options using CTRL+mouse. > > When form is submited in database I found only one of those 3 options, > the one at the bottom of 3 selected. You want t

Re: auth/add/user error

2008-02-08 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 8, 2008 1:50 PM, Narso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally this error is not fire, the form's action attribute get > blank. But, when I set the TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID variable in the > settings file to: >TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID = 'Variable "%s" out of context' > then the add_fo

Re: i'm tired

2008-02-09 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 9, 2008 5:48 PM, newbiedoobiedoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please take your instructions and put them up somewhere OFFICIAL, > because > I was following directions that were MUCH more complicated. To be perfectly fair, the official installation instructions on djangproject.com tell you

Re: DjangoBook Ch. 7 not working

2008-02-10 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 10, 2008 3:37 AM, rihad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first example (the search form) doesn't work either with the same > error (str object is not callable). The book was written for Django 0.96; while most things it covers remain the same in the current development version, not all of

Re: Simple filter query throwing up an error

2008-02-10 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 10, 2008 5:59 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Event.objects.filter(date__exact=datetime.now()) > > Simple enough, but it throws up this error: > > AttributeError at /events/today/ > 'module' object has no attribute 'now' You want to read the documentation for Python's datetime

Re: The best practice for a registration and then getting user to fill up extra information

2008-02-10 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 9, 2008 9:37 AM, Ramdas S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Django-registration. It works like a charm as far as registering > new users and validating them from potential bots. However, what is the best > practice as far as getting users to feed in more information. See django-regis

Re: Django cannot be used by large web sites?

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 11:02 AM, asj2008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are hitting an error that disables the entire website when we have > more than 255 web pages...this is the error we see..has anyone seen > this before? It does not seem to be in the documentation It's a limit hard-coded into Py

Re: Django cannot be used by large web sites?

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 11:52 PM, a sanjuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes. the pages already make use of includes and of course inheritance, but > each page has unique text content. it is a big commercial website You know, if you've got a bunch of pages with different text, you can use a database to s

Re: Django cannot be used by large web sites?

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 12:04 PM, Alex Ezell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone else think that 255 urls seems a little crazy? Yes. This sort of thing is what mechanisms like include() are for. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~-

Re: Django cannot be used by large web sites?

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 11:17 AM, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a couple possibilities that occur to me, but without > seeing the code, it's hard to tell. Functions/methods can > certainly take more than 255 parameters, though it may have to be > done through *args/**kwargs format; or

Re: Django cannot be used by large web sites?

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 8:43 PM, a sanjuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We use includes...those are actually 255 CONTENT pages... You have over 255 URLs which don't offer any logical way to break them up? -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-

Re: Generic import

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 3:41 AM, Rozita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I test another way instead of moving my files? You can hack around with your Python import path (Google will teach you what that means). But you really ought to be developing apps that can live independently of a project folder.

Re: Generic import

2008-02-11 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 11, 2008 3:33 AM, Rozita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way that I can omit project name from import statements? Yes. Refactor your code so that the applications are no longer in the project folder, and put them directly on the Python import path instead. This is generally what

Re: How popular is Django ?

2008-02-12 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 12, 2008 5:00 AM, tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How popular is Django among other Python Web Frameworks (TurboGears, > Pylons, Webware, CherryPy...) ? More popular than rotting meat. Not as popular as sliced bread. Beyond that, hard to narrow down. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are tech

Re: exclude issue with M2M Field

2008-02-12 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 12, 2008 1:46 PM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that 'exclude'ing on a M2M field does not have the effect I > anticipated. Am I doing something wrong? Basically I have the > following models The real problem is that the SQL necessary to do an exclude() and have it

Re: Xcode as Django IDE

2008-02-13 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 13, 2008 3:57 PM, zombat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what do you use? Emacs inside Terminal. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: How to use autoescape?

2008-02-14 Thread James Bennett
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ting Zhou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could somebody tell me how to use autoescape in django? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#automatic-html-escaping -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--

Re: A "philosophical" question

2008-02-15 Thread James Bennett
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 6:15 AM, dreamingbear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand. I had the tag idea too, but still it seems to me that > this is putting business logic in the V of MVC - don't get me wrong, I > said that Django has a beautiful architecture. This is just pondering. See t

Re: Django scope

2008-02-16 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 17, 2008 12:02 AM, Jean-Christophe Kermagoret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I'm coming from Java world and I'm looking in Django for a high > level framework to write very quickly new applications. > Does Django provide the following features ? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentat

Re: ImportError: No module named base

2008-02-18 Thread James Bennett
Most likely, you all have out-of-date versions of the MySQLDb adapter (the Python module which lets Python talk to a MySQL database). -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Whitespace handling in newforms modelforms

2008-02-18 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 18, 2008 2:37 PM, web-junkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > why isn't whitespace automatically stripped from fields when using > modelforms? This would be convenient. Up until the moment you need to store some source code written in the language Django uses. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are

Re: One CSS, One JS in production mode for django?

2008-02-18 Thread James Bennett
On Feb 18, 2008 3:21 PM, mamcxyz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if exist a similar toolset as in ruby: Believe it or not, this question has been asked before on this very list; try searching the archive for suggestions. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind

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