Re: Has anyone made an MS excel exporter in a django site yet?

It it's just one table, you can write an HTML table and name the file with the .xls extension. Excel will open it just fine. Something like this: On Apr 9, 6:43 pm, Roboto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious =P A couple of my users are requesting that I find a way > to export some data to e

autoreload files stored on SMB share

Hi, I have my Django project source files on a SMB share (it is a Linux file server). I am running the development server on a different Linux computer, which has the SMB share mounted (with smbfs). The autoreload feature causes the server to restart every second whether or not I have modified

IE ignores Content-disposition on Apache but not development server

I want my view to respond with a file for downloading, so that the browser pops up the download/file save dialog. I am using the 'Content-Disposition' header to specify the name of the file. When I use the django development server, it works perfectly in Firefox and IE6 (latest versions). When I s

Re: Still really struggling with JOINS

Hi, I myself am learning this, but I'd like to take a crack at your question. Based on the DB API document, you need to employ both select_related() (to go from a model with a FK to the objects related by that FK), and somefield_set (to go the other way). (Note it seems select_related is a method

Re: django embedded web server

I've been following this and related threads with some interest. I think it would be nice to have a pure python (requiring no setup of, e.g., Apache) webserver included with Django that was more capable than the current Django development server. I recently stumbled across this: http://pythonpast

Re: Using Object Relational Mapper

I have a similar but not the same need. I do use the full Django stack, but I need to write helper programs that can interact with the database but have nothing to do with the web. This matters because I already have a normal Django project and some apps set up, but you may need to make a dummy pr

basic question about concurrent access

I have a basic question about concurrency. Suppose I have a table Users, with a column email_address, and a view that allows updating records from this table. Suppose further that two different sessions, Alice and Bob, have loaded the view on a specific record, say, record 15. The view shows the