Re: Capture URL values in a CBV

Wham! That is what I was looking for. From a class-based-view virgin to a wise head: **you have been so helpful** thank you On 4/17/20 1:08 PM, Dylan Reinhold wrote: def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):         # Call the base implementation first to get a context         context =

Re: Capture URL values in a CBV

sure the solution is very easy, but I obviously am missing something. thanks On 4/16/20 7:26 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: On 4/15/20 7:24 PM, Gavin Wiener wrote: Hey Tim Hello Gavin: Thank you for your prompt reply. The bigger question is, what are you trying to achieve? I gotta know. I'm

Re: Capture URL values in a CBV

On 4/15/20 7:24 PM, Gavin Wiener wrote: Hey Tim Hello Gavin: Thank you for your prompt reply. The bigger question is, what are you trying to achieve? I gotta know. I'm a retired programmer with 19 years doing CGI. Wrote and implemented my own framework. First in C, than C++ then rebol,

Capture URL values in a CBV

using django.VERSION (2, 1, 5, 'final', 0) with python 3.7.2 on ubuntu 16.04 Given the URL pattern below: path('', ArticleDetailView.as_view(), name='article_detail'), And the view as below: class ArticleDetailView(DetailView):     model = Article     template_name = 'article_detail.html'    

Re: Name clashes on custom commands

- we use it in one of our projects to override the "runserver" command. The order of the applications in your project dictates which command is run. Regards, Andréas Den fre 10 apr. 2020 kl 00:18 skrev Tim Johnson <mailto:t...@akwebsoft.com>>: I have more of

Name clashes on custom commands

I have more of an observation than a question and it is likely that any responses may serendipitously enlighten me. From the contributions of good djangoists to an earlier query on my part (subject ORM from the command line) I have been enlightened about custom commands and django-extensions

Re: ORM from the command line

odesílatel Tim Johnson <mailto:t...@akwebsoft.com>> napsal: Thank you Andréas. I have come across that too, after my OT. This is definitely what I was looking for. cheers On 4/9/20 2:05 AM, Andréas Kühne wrote: Hi Tim, What you probably should do is use

Re: ORM from the command line

goodness - and it can be run from the command line. See here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/howto/custom-management-commands/ This is how I would handle it. Regards, Andréas Den tors 9 apr. 2020 kl 00:18 skrev Tim Johnson <mailto:t...@akwebsoft.com>>: using django.VERS

ORM from the command line

using django.VERSION (2, 1, 5, 'final', 0) with python 3.7.2 on ubuntu 16.04 I have a need for a "Housekeeping" application. It's usage would be to 1) connect to a database, either mysql, mariadb or postgres 2) truncate two tables and repopulate them based on an arbitrary data structure such

Where to source a very large data structure.

I am building a site that will render articles and essays. They will be arranged by topic.  An index of topics will be rendered. Once a topic is selected, a list of articles will be rendered as a secondary index. I propose to control this rendering using two data structures that will grow

Re: Where to set the DATABASE_URL environment variable on Heroku

On 12/6/19 9:09 PM, Jorge Gimeno wrote: On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:40 PM Tim Johnson <mailto:t...@akwebsoft.com>> wrote: Despite the voluminous Heroku documentation I am unable to establish where to initialize the DATABASE_URL that would establish credentials for my

Where to set the DATABASE_URL environment variable on Heroku

Despite the voluminous Heroku documentation I am unable to establish where to initialize the DATABASE_URL that would establish credentials for my deployed database. Heroku's documentation uses the following example DATABASE_URL=$(heroku config:get HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_TIMS_URL -a timsapp) But I

Re: Choosing MySQL or PostGres on Heroku

t sure if this service will be officially available in this coming release. I hope this helps, Happy Holiday to Everyone. Leon On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 6:34 PM Tim Johnson <mailto:t...@akwebsoft.com>> wrote: Using python 3.7.2, Django 2.1.5 on Linux development workstation with

Choosing MySQL or PostGres on Heroku

Using python 3.7.2, Django 2.1.5 on Linux development workstation with deployment to Heroku. I retired several ago, primarily coding in python and mostly working in legacy CGI systems with MySQL backends and still use mysql on my workstation. I am now essentially a hobbyist who wishes to

Fine-tuning rich text displays

almost anything on google _if_ you know the right keywords ... could use more of those. thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fro

Re: formfield_overrides doesn't work

ny char size. > > Here’s a great usage example on widget tweaks: > https://simpleisbetterthancomplex.com/2015/12/04/package-of-the-week-django-widget-tweaks.html. > > I hope this is useful for you. Thanks Jim. I had seen references to 'tweaks' and I will give it a try. cheers --

Re: formfield_overrides doesn't work

. You've been a great help and I've learned a lot. cheers -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to djang

Re: formfield_overrides doesn't work

ate inhibiting the rendering? My goal was not to change the max_length attribute, but the size attribute in the rendered HTML code. For the record, css widens the input field, and that gave me the input width I sought, but the edification I seek is to understand how to use formfield_overrides. ch

Re: formfield_overrides doesn't work

* Tim Johnson [190511 11:20]: > django 2.1.5 with python 3.7.2 > > I have a models.py class as follows: > class Article(models.Model): > title = models.CharField(max_length=255,) > > And I want to override the rendered default size attribute to 100 in > t

formfield_overrides doesn't work

, ArticleAdmin) Sadly it appears to have no effect. Viewing the rendered source, I do not see a size attribute. the field is rendered as: Have I ommited a step? thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users&q

Re: WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor recommendations

? thanks again -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post

quill tries to import deprecated django.forms.util

utils not forms.util Before I set to hacking venv code and since I know there are quill users on this list, I should ask: Is there a later quill available for download with correct changes? thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subsc

Re: WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor recommendations

* Tim Johnson [190430 16:27]: > Using python 3.7.2 and django 2.1.5 > > Production is in Ubuntu 16.04 and prospective deployment is likely > to be CentOS with same python/django. > > I'm a retired python developer. > > I'd welcome recommendations and/or caveats regar

Re: WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor recommendations

* Joel Mathew [190430 17:29]: > Currently I'm using quill. It's easy to implement, and has all basic > features. Cool. Thanks for that Joel. > > I'd like to recreate the same functionality with django. I will need > > to be able to include embedded images. -- Tim Johnson h

WYSIWYG/Rich Text Editor recommendations

Using python 3.7.2 and django 2.1.5 Production is in Ubuntu 16.04 and prospective deployment is likely to be CentOS with same python/django. I'm a retired python developer. I'd welcome recommendations and/or caveats regarding a stable WYSIWIG "plugin". Much is available on google, but it is

Re: Recommend Tutorials

; Regards > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 26, 2018, at 7:33 PM, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > Using django 2.0 on ubuntu with python 3.5.2 > > > > Some tutorials that I have tried have deprecated code and I get > > errors. > > > > I wo

Recommend Tutorials

/ is about as current as they come :). It would be fun to experiment with others however. thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving e

Re: Unapplied Migration - how to apply

* Joel Mathew [181120 11:18]: > Yes, for your special case where you seem to have a pre-existing migration, > you dont need makemigrations before migrate. I was just commenting that > this is not the usual case. Thank you. > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 01:43, Tim Johnson wrote: &

Re: Unapplied Migration - how to apply

quence that was suggested by Shubham Rewale did fully apply the migration. Which is correct? -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from i

Re: Unapplied Migration - how to apply

Nov 2018, 10:10 p.m. Tim Johnson > > using django on ubuntu 16.04 > > python 3.5.2 > > django.VERSION = > > (2, 0, 0, 'final', 0) > > Working from the Django Core book by Nigel George. > > When launching <...> For more options, visit https://groups.goo

Unapplied Migration - how to apply

anything to clarify) 3) How do the migrations above correspond to DB tables (I'm using the default sqlite3 configuration)? Thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Relocation Apps to subfolder

* Russell Keith-Magee <russ...@keith-magee.com> [130507 18:40]: > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: <..> > Example > > cd my/shiny/new/django/project > > django-admin.py startproject myproj > > mkdir apps > >

Relocation Apps to subfolder

FYI1: 'Old' pythonist, but CGI and cli utilities only. django noob. I'm playing with django (~1.3) and using "Django 1.0 Website development" by Hourieh as a a tutorial. FYI2: I have developed and used my own MVC'ish framework for some time now. It would be my preference to locate an app under

[solved]Re: Reloading modules during development

* Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> [130505 12:44]: > * Aljoša Mohorović <aljosa.mohoro...@gmail.com> [130505 11:28]: > > django has development server which autoreloads > > check https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/django-admin/ > Thanks. However this is ve

Re: Reloading modules during development

* Aljoša Mohorović [130505 11:28]: > django has development server which autoreloads > check https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/django-admin/ Thanks. However this is very problematic. Don't know how to start it. Example : Project is at

Reloading modules during development

OS = Mac OSX Lion FYI: I am just starting to investigate django and am just "playing" with it. I've created a view and am experimenting with it by changing code. I start django using the following : gunicorn_django --daemon --pid dj.pid --bind=127.0.0.1:8001 and stop it with kill $(cat dj.pid)

Re: Deploying: Desktop to server

* Brian Schott [130409 07:12]: > Others are welcome to disagree, but try to avoid the trap of using > JSON fixtures to migrate the database. You can get yourself in > trouble pretty quickly with foreign key collisions if you are not > careful. Use pg_dump or mysqldump

Re: Deploying: Desktop to server

* Shawn Milochik [130408 16:41]: > It should be fine, unless you're using encrypted fields, using the > SECRET_KEY setting as the key, and have a different key in production. > > Of course, if you want to keep the databases in sync after that, that's > another issue.

Deploying: Desktop to server

FYI - I'm new to django, but have been doing web programming since '96 and python since '03. I intend to put together a test site on my desktop and push it to a remote server. I will be the only user making changes to this site. Thus I presume that it is OK to push the database as well. Am I

Re: Django with FastCGI doesn't works

* Stephan Hassenpflug [130306 11:45]: > Hi, > > I have the same problem, but I can not see what to change. > I can not change the setup of apache as described. Me too (similarly) I kind of feel like fastcgi and shared hosting environments have been abandoned by

Re: FastCGI Recipe for shared hosting

* Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> [130303 14:17]: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > Clearly, a red herring, and clearly django could do better with > > documentation and support for shared servers. > > (ve

Re: FastCGI Recipe for shared hosting

* Marc Aymerich <glicer...@gmail.com> [130303 14:17]: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/#running-django-on-a-shared-hosting-provider-with-apache :( I've re

Re: FastCGI Recipe for shared hosting

* Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> [130302 14:30]: > * Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> [130301 06:44]: > > Apache httpd with mod_fastcgi: > > > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ > > # repeat for

FastCGI Recipe for shared hosting

* Tom Evans [130301 06:44]: > Apache httpd with mod_fastcgi: > > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/ > # repeat for any other directories you want httpd to serve > RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /app.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L] > FastCGIExternalServer

Re: Daemonize django server

* Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> [130301 06:44]: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote: > > I'm having a hell of a time getting fastcgi to work on my mac, so <...> > > I didn't reply to your fastcgi posts yesterday,

Re: Daemonize django server

* carlos [130228 13:15]: > you try http://gunicorn.org/ is fast and easy to deploy :) It was as simple as easy_install gunicorn then switch to the app directory and ran gunicorn_django --daemon --pid djpid --bind=127.0.0.1:8001 I have a daemonized process at

Re: Daemonize django server

* carlos [130228 13:15]: > you try http://gunicorn.org/ is fast and easy to deploy > > Cheers Thank you! That looks great. -- Tim tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Daemonize django server

* Josh Cartmell [130228 09:48]: > This (http://software.clapper.org/daemonize/) may do what you want and > can be installed with homebrew on a mac, but if this is in any way a > production setting, I wouldn't do it. The dev server hasn't gone > through any security audits

Daemonize django server

I'm having a hell of a time getting fastcgi to work on my mac, so for the time being I'll just stick with using the django server. Is it possible to daemonize the server? I would prefer that in some cases. >From https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/ I see daemonize as an option

Re: Setting django for fastcgi

I have now pared my 'old' .htaccess method for CGI to this: (code) AcceptPathInfo On AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.fcgi/$1 [L,QSA] (/code) Note that Apache does not find index.fcgi unless AcceptPathInfo On is enabled.

Re: Setting django for fastcgi

code for test0_loader.py as follows #!/usr/bin/python import os # Set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable. os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "settings" from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false") -- Tim tim at tee jay

Setting django for fastcgi

FYI: OS=Mac OSX 107, Python 2.7.1 Experience : CGI programming 17 years, python 10 years. Django, FastCGI - newbie .htaccess - pretty shaky I'd like to work with django out of the box as fastcgi. I have a test site set up. With (code) python manage.py runserver 8000 (/code) My test sites is

Re: Verify sqlite connection from the comand line

* Shawn Milochik [110326 11:15]: > Follow the instructions in the beginning of the Django tutorial to set > up sqlite3 > as your database. > > Then: > > manage.py dbshell > > This should bring you to the sqlite3 interactive prompt if it works. > > For extra fun you can

Verify sqlite connection from the comand line

FYI: I am putting together the resources for a tutorial (not development) on a slax OS running off of an SD card in an Asus Netbook. I am using currently available slax modules - sqlite-3.6.14.2, python-2.5.2 and django-1.1. Although some will want to recommend getting more current stuff, that is

Re: Setting system path for django

* Graham Dumpleton [110325 16:43]: > > > On Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:56:53 AM UTC+11, tim042849 wrote: > > > > I've set up python 2.7 on slax. > > I've also set up django 1.1 on slax. Slax does things a little > > differently, so it appears. django is installed at

Re: Setting system path for django

* Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> [110325 17:13]: > On Friday, March 25, 2011 05:46:54 pm Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > > > It really sounds like when you install python, you're using `python > > > setup.py` > > > That's my bad. that should read "

Re: Setting system path for django

* Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> [110325 15:42]: > On Friday, March 25, 2011 02:56:53 pm Tim Johnson wrote: > > I've set up python 2.7 on slax. > > I've also set up django 1.1 on slax. Slax does things a little > > differently, so it appears. django is installed at

Re: Setting system path for django

* Tim Johnson <t...@johnsons-web.com> [110325 14:39]: > * Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> [110325 14:30]: > > Use virtualenv and save yourself a lot of trouble. > Setting system paths is not a lot of trouble for me. It is just > that I have not had to use

Re: Setting system path for django

* Shawn Milochik [110325 14:30]: > Use virtualenv and save yourself a lot of trouble. Setting system paths is not a lot of trouble for me. It is just that I have not had to use .pth files for years, on my workstation I address sys.path directly >

Setting system path for django

I've set up python 2.7 on slax. I've also set up django 1.1 on slax. Slax does things a little differently, so it appears. django is installed at /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django python 2.7 does not know where to find django, because the path to django is not being added to sys.path. I've

Re: django tutorial on asus netbook

* Bill Freeman [110322 16:38]: > You don't actually need an webserver for a learning scenario, so > apache, or even lighthttp is unnessary. Django comes with the > "development server" built in. Python itself listens on a port for > HTTP requests. > > Of somewhat more

django tutorial on asus netbook

I'm going on vacation with my little Asus EEE Pc 900 with xandros. lighttpd is running. vim (non-gui 'big' version) and kate installed. Python version is 2.4.4 is installed. Couldn't get apache2 to install at this point. I've got the book "Django 1.0 Web Site Development". I hope to take the

htaccess/rewrite engine/default page

I am using Python 2.6.6 on mint 10. I just installed django from synaptic. This is not a django-specific question, but I am hopeful that the answer will be helpful to other noobs. Given that I have the following python script installed on my machine: myFooLoader.py And I point my browser to

Re: CMS for django

Thanks for the responses. -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.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-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this

CMS for django

Greetings: I would welcome comments on what CMS is compatible with django. I have seen much on the web regarding this topic, but I would suspect that from this ML I am much more likely to hear directly from someone who is deploying a CMS with django. thanks in advance -- Tim tim at

Re: Recommend a book

* Sandro Dutra [100924 09:28]: > "The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Developement Done Right", Apress, > updated Django 1.1 > "Pratical Django Projects", Apress, updated Django 1.1 Thanks for all the input. I know have the means to make a decision. cheers -- Tim

Re: Recommend a book

Thank you - Shawn Milochik and Tran Cao Thai. :) thus far. I'll check back in the morning. cheers -- Tim tim at johnsons-web.com or akwebsoft.com http://www.akwebsoft.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Recommend a book

FYI: I'm an experienced python programmer, experienced web programmer, work mostly on linux platforms. And I like to start slow and get it down thoroughly. I'm soliciting recommendations for books on learning django. E-book or paper. Paper is preferred. I would prefer to avoid anything geared

Re: Webpy vs Django [and how to ask questions the smart way]

On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Phil Mocek wrote: <...> > [2]: > [3]: > [4]: > [5]: Great links

Re: Documentation for Download?

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, James Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Tim Johnson <t...@johnsons-web.com> wrote: > > I installed from the tarball, and I see the docs directory beneath the > > initially extracted directory and a makefile. So now my q

Re: Documentation for Download?

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alex Gaynor wrote: > If you installed it with your system's package manager it may not have > included the docs directory, you can always download the tarball from the > Django site and extra the docs dir only. I installed from the tarball, and I see the docs

Re: Documentation for Download?

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Alex Gaynor wrote: > Every django tarball or svn checkout includes a docs/ dir that has the full > docs, you can build these into HTML, latex, pdf whatever using Sphinx. Sorry, but I can't find a docs/dir path. Looking under

Documentation for Download?

I've installed django on my linux computer. I find documentation online at http://docs.djangoproject.com/ I do not find documentation as part of the django install. Is documentation available for download? Thanks Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: where's our poll app?

On Tuesday 10 February 2009, djandrow wrote: > Did you create the models and is the database correctly configured in > settings.py? I added 'phhsite.polls', the server is seeing it now. Thanks :-) stayed tuned - I'm an old pythonisto in more ways than one, but just a django noob cheers tj

where's our poll app?

It's not displayed on the admin index page. >From the Tutorial at: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial02/#intro-tutorial02 Name of the project is phhsite from phhsite ran python manage.py startapp polls directory was created. Then created the admin file Restarted the server by

Re: Non-typical Install - limited ftp access

On Monday 02 February 2009, elithrar wrote: > Whilst you could technically 'upload' django to the webspace that > you're jailed into, without the package being on the PYTHONPATH you > won't be able to import django into your scripts - you'll need to SSH > in and install the package (via either

Non-typical Install - limited ftp access

I do not currently use django. I am an experienced web programmer. I've developed my own frameworks, but have a small project to do that I'd like to use as a way of learning and testing django. To the best of my knowledge, here are the circumstances: A virtual domain on a linux redhat or ubuntu

Re: Root Access

Hi: Just wanted to thank all of you for the responses. Good data set! "Not bad for two fingers" cheers tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Root Access

On Saturday 12 July 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I don't think that is true, the only time I needed root was when I was > symlinking django into /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ but since you > can put it anywhere on your python path, you just need to symlink it > somewhere that's on your

Root Access

professional opinions. Or urls to discussions on the topic. Regards Tim Johnson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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