Re: Please help me use "views.django.views.static"

2007-01-13 Thread Brian Beck
Hi, I make using static.serve a little cleaner like so: In settings.py: STATIC_OPTIONS = {'document_root': MEDIA_ROOT, 'show_indexes': True} In urls.py: from django.conf import settings ... (r'^static/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', settings.STATIC_OPTIONS), (change 'static/' above to

Re: using curly brace in template

2007-01-13 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 17:16 -0800, abe wrote: I wanted to use a {{forlppo.counter}} just behind a curly brace in a djang template {{{forloop.counter}}.0} but I get an error TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value:Could not parse the remainder: {forloop.counter can I somehow escape the

Re: django.contrib.auth.decorators._checklogin didn't return an HttpResponse object.

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
the problem is not in django, it is more likely in your code... you have probably applied the login_required decorator to a view function, that does not correctly return the HttpResponse object... again if you would post the function we could tell you more... Honza On 1/14/07, rzimerman <[EMAIL

Re: Please help me use "views.django.views.static"

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
How does your ENTIRE urls.py look? it looks like you supplied a prefix (mysite.www) to the patterns function, so that it is prepended to every view name you put there... remove it and it should be OK On 1/14/07, rzimerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want the Django development web server to

Please help me use "views.django.views.static"

2007-01-13 Thread rzimerman
I want the Django development web server to serve the images located in '/var/www/images', so I added the following line to my urls.py file: (r'^images/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/var/www/images'}), However, when I got to view the image, I get the following

using curly brace in template

2007-01-13 Thread abe
I wanted to use a {{forlppo.counter}} just behind a curly brace in a djang template {{{forloop.counter}}.0} but I get an error TemplateSyntaxError Exception Value:Could not parse the remainder: {forloop.counter can I somehow escape the curlybrace? -abe

django.contrib.auth.decorators._checklogin didn't return an HttpResponse object.

2007-01-13 Thread rzimerman
I'm trying to use the 'login_required' decorator to limit access to some of my views of logged in users. However, when I connect to these views, I get the following error message: Request Method: GET Request URL:http://192.168.1.8/submitVote/ Exception Type: ValueError

A calendar-like view in Django/Python...

2007-01-13 Thread mediumgrade
I have written an application that keeps track of appointments for my technicians. My partners would like to be able to view the appointments in a "calendar-like" format which can be viewed and/or printed. Am I making sense? Is there already some kind of library in Django and/or Python that does

Re: a simple django CMS anyone?

2007-01-13 Thread spacedman
ashwoods wrote: a simple open and free CMS would be good for a lot of people, specially the newcomers. the problem is how to design a CMS that doesn't limit the freedom you learn to love when you choose to use django over some cms. Someone looks like they tried to start a project like this,

Re: Standard 404 page

2007-01-13 Thread Fred C. Dobbs
Thanks. When DEBUG = True, the page reads: "You're seeing this error because you have DEBUG = True in your Django settings file. Change that to False, and Django will display a standard 404 page." Shouldn't it say something about having to define a 404 template first? When I read the message

Re: Standard 404 page

2007-01-13 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On 1/13/07 3:09 PM, Fred C. Dobbs wrote: I've synched to revision 4313, setup a project, added a line to the urlpatterns to allow normal operation, and set Debug to False. Then I fire up the builtin server and request a non-existent page. I expect a "standard 404 page", but what I get is:

Standard 404 page

2007-01-13 Thread Fred C. Dobbs
Newbie question. I've synched to revision 4313, setup a project, added a line to the urlpatterns to allow normal operation, and set Debug to False. Then I fire up the builtin server and request a non-existent page. I expect a "standard 404 page", but what I get is: Traceback (most recent call

Re: generic views and non-editable foreign keys

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
I would recommend you reading this blog by James Bennet: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/11/16/django-tips-get-most-out-generic-views it has some great tips on using and extending generic views... On 1/14/07, qhfgva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So far I've been using generic views for

generic views and non-editable foreign keys

2007-01-13 Thread qhfgva
So far I've been using generic views for everything so I'm not sure if I've reached the end of what those can do, or just need some better understanding of how to use them. I have a Foo model and a Goo model which among other attributes has a non-editable ForeignKey reference back to Foo. I'm

Re: newforms and dynamic choices

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
On 1/13/07, Brian Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's say there's a Room model. And let's say there's a ManyToMany relationship with User to specify which users can schedule certain rooms. How should a person in such a circumstance create a SelectField on a form with a user's rooms as

newforms and dynamic choices

2007-01-13 Thread Brian Victor
Let's say there's a Room model. And let's say there's a ManyToMany relationship with User to specify which users can schedule certain rooms. How should a person in such a circumstance create a SelectField on a form with a user's rooms as choices? Or more generally, how should I go about

Re: Latex Rendering

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
or you can simply output the latex code using templates... its just a text file and thus can be rendered via the standard mechanism... we use this approach to generate RTF files On 1/12/07, Kjell Magne Fauske <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anush Shetty wrote: > Hi, > I want to build a wiki with

Re: Newbie question

2007-01-13 Thread Rob J Goedman
Thanks a lot Honza and James! On Jan 13, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Honza Král wrote: just a thought: do you have DEBUG turned off in your settings? if not, django will store all qeuries it made in memory so that it is accessible for debugging purposes... That's it! With debug off it's stable!

Idea for capturing logging information by modifying cache behavior

2007-01-13 Thread Chris Moffitt
I've been thinking about ideas to capture more detailed logging info in Django for my app. For instance, I'd like to capture every time someone views a certain object. Also, I might want to capture all items viewed in a session. There are obviously several ways to do it. The simplest is

Re: Newbie question

2007-01-13 Thread James Bennett
On 1/13/07, Rob J Goedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Normally the delays are natural and are controlled via Twisted (TCP and callLater). Above program is stable if I comment out the cpl=list (...) statement, otherwise it grows forever. Each time that code is called, it's fetching every row

Re: Newbie question

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
just a thought: do you have DEBUG turned off in your settings? if not, django will store all qeuries it made in memory so that it is accessible for debugging purposes... On 1/13/07, Rob J Goedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, We converted an access system written in VB to a Django app. The

Newbie question

2007-01-13 Thread Rob J Goedman
Hi, We converted an access system written in VB to a Django app. The pure db side and GUI work great. Data is also obtained from control panels that have fingerprint readers attached. So I wrote a separate python program to 'scan' these control panels (embedded linux based) and store it

Re: how to do SQL SUM

2007-01-13 Thread Honza Král
On 1/13/07, Picio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, in my custom view, when I retrieve a query set, I need to add (i mean do the sum) of all the values in a column. Is there a built in django-way to do it, instead to write python code myself? In the db_api I saw order_by but I cant see

manipulating the value before save()

2007-01-13 Thread Tim Chase
I'm trying to make a RelaxedPhoneNumber field that normalizes user input to an internal representation of purely digits before getting saved, and then presents in a particular format. I'm having trouble finding where to intercept and change the value. I want to do it on the field level, as I

a simple django CMS anyone?

2007-01-13 Thread ashwoods
django is great for writing CMSs, or in other words, writing web applications for content :). it makes sense to have "application driven" websites instead of "content driven" when writing the code with django is so easy... the tradeoff is that most of us are probably rewriting a lot of the stuff

creating forms from models using newforms

2007-01-13 Thread ashwoods
on irc there was more than one who were really interested in creating forms from model defintions are were really sad that newforms does not do this. but! the newforms documentation isn't nearly finished, so if you are really impatient, just dive into the code yourself :) or if you read the

Question about models

2007-01-13 Thread Nathan Harmston
Hi, I ve decided to try to use django in a project of mine to display some results. I have an idea of how I m going to implement the database but not how this translate to a django data model. I am trying to use a database to store a graph of Nodes to Nodes with Edges. However there are multiple

django setting's problem

2007-01-13 Thread Brightman
i visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/image/post-jg.gif and return Page not found: C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\django-0.95-py2.4.egg\django/contrib/admin/media\image/post-jg.gif my project locates D:\project\rankba\,and set MEDIA_ROOT = 'D:\\project\\rankba\\media' in settings.py

how to do SQL SUM

2007-01-13 Thread Picio
Hello, in my custom view, when I retrieve a query set, I need to add (i mean do the sum) of all the values in a column. Is there a built in django-way to do it, instead to write python code myself? In the db_api I saw order_by but I cant see something related to SUM. I know there is .extra