Forms with error reporting

The FormWrapper design pattern seems to be great, but I have a question. Is there any way that I can put errors in the response that aren't linked with form fields? For example, in an authentication page... if the authentication fails, I don't want to link an error to either the user or

Sites or custom hack to limit related fields in Admin

(Reposted since my thread was hijacked...) I have a "legacy database" filled with data for many customer's website content. In the admin I always want to filter the queries so that only the current customer's inventory, categories and subcategories are viewable. Can this be done with the

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

I can use cakephp instead, that is not ruby, but a ROR styled framework --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

On 12-Sep-06, at 6:15 AM, Sean Schertell wrote: > I defected to Django from Rails and so far I'm loving it. this is the best write-up on django vs rails that i have seen - could you wikify it? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/

Re: Initial SQL data using Django ORM - A HowTo

On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've added a small tutorial: > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/InitialSQLDataDiangoORMWay > > It describes how to use Django ORM to add initial SQL data to freshly > installed apps without files with RAW SQL > I think the steps is

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

On 9/12/06, Jeff Rodenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question: how would you (you = someone with solid Django background) > characterize similarities and differences with Rails? Disclaimer: I'm a Django developer; I looked at Rails before I got involved with Django, and I occasionally

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:41 -0700, Jeff Rodenburg wrote: > My question: how would you (you = someone with solid Django > background) characterize similarities and differences with Rails? Django is slightly older, having been developed two years before the initial release in July 2005. They have

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

On 9/11/06, Ian Holsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/09/2006, at 10:53 PM, charles sibbald wrote: > > > I think Djangoforge should have the ability to host projects as > > follows: > > > > 1. Full projects > > 2. Useful Classes > > 3. Useful Functions - > > > > similar to a mini

Re: Syndication Question

On 09-Sep-06, at 11:45 PM, keukaman wrote: > I hope to get a bit of clarification on syndication. Does it need its > own app by running 'django-admin.py startapp feeds' or something > similar? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/syndication/#initialization -- regards kg

Re: Re:

Adam Kelly wrote: > In the view: > rows = zip( *[ ( thing.name, thing.color, thing.weight ) for thing in > object_list ] ) > > In the template: > {% for row in rows %} > > {% for item in row %} > {{item}} > {% endfor %} > > {% endfor %} To generalize this a bit more, you could do: rows =

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

Hi Jeff, I defected to Django from Rails and so far I'm loving it. But it really depends on what you need to do. If you're creating a single monolithic application, Rails is pretty sweet. I did a giant invoicing/accounting application for an insurance company in Rails. It handles tens of

Re: Rails/Django comparison synopsis

dont have all answers to your questions, but Django is powered by python which is more mature than Ruby and has more docs than ruby.and sometimes something overly hyped may just be that...overly hypedDjango docs are comming out at speed alsoi would be interested in developers opinions

FilePathField displaying file in template

I have a photo field in a model that is a FilePathField. It works great in that it lists the photos and the user can then choose one to associate with the model. My question is how would you display the selected photo in a template? The file and image field types have the get_field_name_url to

Re: Advanced copy/duplicate

On 9/12/06, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would it be better to run a function in Postgres? Is there a Django way > to do this? Is there a python way to do this? I'm open to any > suggestions. There isn't a native Django way; however, you could use Python to introspect models, walking

Rails/Django comparison synopsis

I'm trying to get some education on rather quick order and was looking for feedback from the Django side of the equation.I've seen a bit of comparison in public forums of Rails and Django.  I'm trying to eval these things from a higher level, or one might call "management" perspective.  (No, I'm

Re:

--- django-users@googlegroups.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a newcomer to django, so there may be a better way to do this, but > the python way would seem to be: > > In the view: > rows = zip( *[ ( thing.name, thing.color, thing.weight ) for thing in > object_list ] ) > > In the

Re:

Hi, I'm a newcomer to django, so there may be a better way to do this, but the python way would seem to be: In the view: rows = zip( *[ ( thing.name, thing.color, thing.weight ) for thing in object_list ] ) In the template: {% for row in rows %} {% for item in row %} {{item}} {% endfor %} {%

Advanced copy/duplicate

I'm fairly new to python and Django but I've got a fair bit of experience with general web development. My problem is that I'm having trouble figuring out the best way in Django to copy an object (with several foreign keys and many to many items) into an other completely different object and

Re: my private django repository goes public

On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Max, > > garaged schrieb: > > > > That was easy, but the main problem I have is that I really don't > > understand how to implement the new functionallity, I want to use > > libs.dojo, I installed it, but I don't know how to update my

Re: Concurrency and data modification

I think that this would be great (for my purposes)... It doesn't look like this exists in Django right now. Are there plans to implement this? Maybe a ticket that already exists? I'd still be concerned about the cache getting in the way, but as a first step the 'for_update' addition would be

Transpose table in HTML view (show data per column instead of per row)

I wrote (in http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/f218d4fe0680f5d8 ): > | Thing 1 | Thing > 2| Thing 3| > > | white| green | black | > > | 23 | > 23 | 35 | Ugh, sorry about the ugly formatting and lack of subject. I hope it is

Re: Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

On 9/9/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what about the actual stuff? So far we've got a couple people > willing to contribute an app or two. And as I've said, I've got three > I can put in to get started. I run a smallish web hosting company so > I'm happy to provide the

Re: Django under IIS with ISAPI

Yes, we run Django under IIS. However we use the jk connector from the Apache Tomcat project on the IIS side (http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/jk.html) and flup's AJP interface on the Django side. Django's running on a separate Linux box behind the firewall. It works reasonably

[no subject]

Hi, I have a table, as follows: class Thing(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=100) color = models.CharField(maxlength=100) weight = models.IntegerField() [...] I want to have an HTML table as follows: +--+++ | Thing

Re: Re: Initial SQL data using Django ORM - A HowTo

On 9/11/06, aaloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just works if you have just one application in your project. If you > have two for example the function is going to be called twice. Hence my comment in my first reply about narrowing the listening to when the signal is sent by that specific app :)

Re: Initial SQL data using Django ORM - A HowTo

2006/9/11, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It describes how to use Django ORM to add initial SQL data to freshly > > installed apps without files with RAW SQL > > There's actually a much better way to do this, which won't require

Re: Documentation on dispatcher/signals?

Don't forget to search the list archives! -Tyson On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:33 PM, cyberco wrote: > I can't find any documentation on dispatcher/signals. Is

Re: Documentation on dispatcher/signals?

On 9/11/06, cyberco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't find any documentation on dispatcher/signals. Is there any > documentation or should I just 'fork the code'? There isn't any official documentation for it within Django, but it's just PyDispatcher, which does have its own documentation:

Re: magic removal mean?

Check out the djangoproject site for more info: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic Jay Picio wrote: > sorry guys for the boring question, what is the meaning , exactly, of the > "magic removal"? > > Thanks. > Picio > > > > >

Re: Documentation on dispatcher/signals?

Here are a couple of articles that describe how signals work: http://feh.holsman.net/articles/2006/06/13/django-signals http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/06/13/how-django-processes-request Don --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: magic removal mean?

On 9/11/06, Picio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry guys for the boring question, what is the meaning , exactly, of the > "magic removal"? The older versions of Django did some things which happened behind the scenes and weren't necessarily intuitive to an experienced Python programmer; the

Re: magic removal mean?

In Django 0.91 and before, there was certain code that was "magic", essentially, code that did things in a non-Pythonic, non-intuitive or hidden way. So the code was cleaned up and operations were made much more explicit. Code after 0.91 is known as the magic-removal branch, which was

Re: magic removal mean?

This should answer your question: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic In short, a while back the Django developers made some big changes to remove "magic" behavior, where stuff got done behind the scenes. And to clean things up and make it more understandable. For a while there

Documentation on dispatcher/signals?

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magic removal mean?

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Re: Gone live

Thanks! I do have small link down in the footer. And Adrian, I should tell ya, two things that sold me on Django... I come from a journalism background, so that was huge, and the name: http://gretschpages.com/about/2006/jul/31/django/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: switching to mod_python

On 9/11/06, Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > solved it! there was an error in urls.py > I have an second urls.py inside the app dir and had to fix this: > > 'myapp.views.start' > > to this: > > 'myproject.myapp.views.start' > > seems like relative "paths" are relative to the project's base

Re: Concurrency and data modification

We're just using "right down to SQL" invocations to atomically increment numbers. In our case, we're counting the cumulative creations of an object with certain values - so on the save, we're doing the following:    cursor = connection.cursor()   cursor.execute("UPDATE application_modelname set

Re: error with inspectdb using oracle (v0.95)

On 9/11/06, DavidA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > You could try implementing those three functions, using one of the > other backends as a starting point, but you'll need to be fairly > familiar with Oracle to get through it, me thinks. This will help: http://www.ss64.com/orad_v8/index.html

Re: serving static images

On 9/11/06, Allan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's so obvious now that you point that out, I don't know how I > could have missed that. Really thanks a million Jay! it all works > perfectly now. > Glad it worked for you. One last thing you might want to consider is adding this to

Re: switching to mod_python

solved it! there was an error in urls.py I have an second urls.py inside the app dir and had to fix this: 'myapp.views.start' to this: 'myproject.myapp.views.start' seems like relative "paths" are relative to the project's base dir, instead of the scripts dir. Still don't understand why it

Re: switching to mod_python

solved it! there was an error in urls.py I have an second urls.py inside the app dir and had to fix this: 'myapp.views.start' to this: 'myproject.myapp.views.start' seems like relative "paths" are relative to the project's base dir, instead of the scripts dir. Still don't understand why it

Re: serving static images

That's so obvious now that you point that out, I don't know how I could have missed that. Really thanks a million Jay! it all works perfectly now. Allan On 11 Sep 2006, at 18:14, Jay Parlar wrote: > > On 9/11/06, Allan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> i'll give you the settings

Re: Gone live

On 9/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope this isn't inappropriate for the list, but I just wanted to say > my first Django site, gretschpages.com, has gone live. This was a major > project for me, dragging 10 years of static pages into a usable > database-driven app, and

Re: Re: serving static images

On 9/11/06, Allan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i'll give you the settings file too- here you go! bear in mind i've > been changing things within so likely has changed from last time. > Thanks for all this. > > > URLS.PY > from django.conf.urls.defaults import * >

Uploading.

I've uploaded a tutorial on uploading files into Django. I had some problems doing this when I started working on Django, and thought that perhaps people would appreciate it. I know that the files are not indented, blame Wordpress. It would be good to get some feedback, as I adapted it from my

Re: Concurrency and data modification

Hawkeye wrote: > How does raw SQL interact with the 'save' function? > > Say I need to: > increment 'count' > set another variable on the same object > > Do I need to write custom SQL to update the second variable? > Can I just use .save() and have it work as I want it to (or will count > be

Re: Syndication Question

On 9/9/06, keukaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope to get a bit of clarification on syndication. Does it need its > own app by running 'django-admin.py startapp feeds' or something > similar? No. You do need to have 'django.contrib.syndication' in your INSTALLED_APPS setting, but provided

Re: error with inspectdb using oracle (v0.95)

world_domination_kites wrote: > --- > But then, alas: > --- > Traceback (most recent call last): > File >

Re: Gone live

This is great stuff.If you can, please include a very small link to the Django siteany publicity is good publicity.- Original Message From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: Django users Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:32:57 PMSubject: Gone

Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has someone already built an interface to Akismet or a similar service? I don't do trackback, but I use Akismet filtering for comments on my blog and I've been insanely happy with it (around 60% of comments I get are spam, and Akismet

Re: Re: serving static images

i'll give you the settings file too- here you go! bear in mind i've been changing things within so likely has changed from last time. Thanks for all this. URLS.PY from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from django.conf import settings

Re: Trackback spam in Blogs

On 09/09/06 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. > > My two sites, trogger.de and trogger.info , were recently subjected to > a large trackback-spam attack. We're talking in the area of ten > thousand trackbacks within two or three days. Plus a couple hundred > spam somments in the same period.

Re: Initial SQL data using Django ORM - A HowTo

On 9/9/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It describes how to use Django ORM to add initial SQL data to freshly > installed apps without files with RAW SQL There's actually a much better way to do this, which won't require any additional scripts to be run manually: 1. Create a

Re: Handling data from multiple checkboxes for a single field

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been struggling with this same problem and found little help > with using prepare(). I will share my solution although I am still > hoping that a more efficient method exists. I am using version 0.95 > > In my custom manipulator.save()

Django and transactions

Hi all, Im writing a financial web application with Django and postgresql. This application needs a lot of database transactions. The Django Transactions Documentation is a little bit unclear for me, so i have a some questions. 1. Using the transaction middleware, when is BEGIN TRANSACTION

Initial SQL data using Django ORM - A HowTo

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Many-to-many and Forms

I have the following (simplified) model: class Mineral(models.Model): name=models.CharField(maxlength=60,unique=False,db_index=True) formula=models.CharField(maxlength=100,blank=True) class Specimen(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=50) minerals =

Gone live

I hope this isn't inappropriate for the list, but I just wanted to say my first Django site, gretschpages.com, has gone live. This was a major project for me, dragging 10 years of static pages into a usable database-driven app, and I couldn't have done it without the help of the folks on this

Syndication Question

I hope to get a bit of clarification on syndication. Does it need its own app by running 'django-admin.py startapp feeds' or something similar? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.

Re: Re: forms -> is_required

On 9/11/06, patrickk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > def isRequired(self, field_data, all_data): He doesn't seem to be asking about writing a new validator; instead he wants to replace the message provided by the built-in one (and, of course, the built-in one will always respond on a non-blank

Re: forms -> is_required

def isRequired(self, field_data, all_data): if not field_data: raise validators.ValidationError("please fill in data.") isRequired.always_test = True Am 11.09.2006 um 16:44 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Hi all, > > I have a custom manipulator like this : > > ... >

forms -> is_required

Hi all, I have a custom manipulator like this : ... forms.TextField(field_name="username",length=30,maxlength=30,is_required=True,validator_list=[validators.isAlphaNumeric]) ... does anyone know how I can define a specific error message for "is_required" function, without changing the code in

Admin Tags

I can´t figure out how to use admin tags on my non admin templates. I load the tags correctly with {% load admin_list %} or {% load admin_modify %} but all the tags require a cl object. How can I use the date_hierarchy tag? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: serving static images

Removed the path bit, navigating to http://localhostL:8000/static gets me: ViewDoesNotExist at /static/ Could not import janeraven.products.views.django.views.static. Error was: No module named django.views.static Allan On 11 Sep 2006, at 14:57, Jay Parlar wrote: > > On 9/12/06, Allan

Re: Backwards relation (ie XXX_set) across apps

On 9/12/06, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 9/10/06, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've created a patch (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2684) that > > mentions all of this. > > The ticket now has a patch to solve the problem. This was a nasty > little edge

Re: Re: serving static images

On 9/12/06, Allan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Jay but that doesn't appear to make any difference. I wonder > is it how i have settings.py set up but nothing jumps out at me when > trying to find where I've gone wrong. Don't know if its important but > I'm on a mac and I'm

Re: Concurrency and data modification

How does the cache framework with respect to transactions? If I update a field at the database level, and it locks it... wouldn't it still be possible to grab a stale copy from the cache? Thanks, --Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

Ok agreed, full applications, reusable snippets, templatetages etc.regarding forums/mailing lists, if we can have a forum/mailing list interface then thats great.- Original Message From: Marc Fargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: django-users@googlegroups.comSent: Monday, September 11, 2006

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

On 11/09/2006, at 10:53 PM, charles sibbald wrote: > I think Djangoforge should have the ability to host projects as > follows: > > 1. Full projects > 2. Useful Classes > 3. Useful Functions - > > similar to a mini hotscripts, sometimes someone has written a great > project/application but

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

Full applications, patches and snippets? (like templatetags,filters, middlewares...) Forums sucks, any decent mail client can show a list ordered by threads, and any mail manager can create archives for a list easy searchable by Google. Any decent python script can send mails to mailling lists

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

I think Djangoforge should have the ability to host projects as follows:1. Full projects2. Useful Classes3. Useful Functions - similar to a mini hotscripts, sometimes someone has written a great project/application but no one has the time to trall through to look for particular featureful

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

On 9/11/06, Sean Schertell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow -- you're fast ;-) > Well, this is the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines ;-) Russ %-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: How about a Django apps public repository?

Oh, I was going for .ORG! Luckylly I read the list before going for it ;) If you, or another volunteer can setup a system (debian etch preferred) I can go on configuring the mailling lists, the TRAC hosting, SVN repositories and so on (and some scripts to manage them). It would be better to use

Re: Backwards relation (ie XXX_set) across apps

On 9/10/06, Jay Parlar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've created a patch (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2684) that > mentions all of this. The ticket now has a patch to solve the problem. This was a nasty little edge case; details attached to the patch. Ordinarily, I would just commit

Re: Overriding .save and Image upload

Hello, hope this will help: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_frm/thread/ad819fa9daa9e51/e514ba4c416e1b0a?lnk=gst=Sandro=2#e514ba4c416e1b0a Good luck, Alex. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Re: serving static images

Thanks Jay but that doesn't appear to make any difference. I wonder is it how i have settings.py set up but nothing jumps out at me when trying to find where I've gone wrong. Don't know if its important but I'm on a mac and I'm trying to accomplish this through the built-in dev server. Not

Re: Database events?

I've been looking around and the dispatcher/signals combo seems like a possible solution. I could raise the signals using cronjobs or so. Unfortunately I can't find any decent documentation on dispatcher/signals. Does anybody here have a pointer?

error with inspectdb using oracle (v0.95)

A lazy django newby, first time poster, newly subscribed, wanted a quick and squeaky-clean admin interface for a legacy Oracle database. He installed Django 0.95 and PostgreSQL on his windows XP workstation, did the tutorial, had a bit of a tinker and fell in love. He installed cx_Oracle,

Re: IP based permissions

On Sep 7, 2006, at 16:58, James Bennett wrote: > > On 9/7/06, Håkan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How do I do this the "right" way in Django? > > For some basic ideas you might want to look at the 'INTERNAL_IPS' > setting; the biggest use Django makes of it is in enabling or >