Re: RequestContext rarely used (branched from Feature reviews for 1.1)

2008-11-18 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
On Nov 18, 5:43 pm, Ludvig Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't that a generic view? Yes. It's built into Django and already does exactly what some people want render_to_response to do, so why all the hullabaloo? (Or am I still missing something?)

Re: RequestContext rarely used (branched from Feature reviews for 1.1)

2008-11-18 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
Out of curiosity, for those who want RequestContext added to render_to_response, is there a reason you don't like using direct_to_template instead? I see the two as being functionally equivalent (minus the addition of RequestContext, of course), but this debate crops up every so often -- is there

Re: Proposal: `create_or_update` method on query sets, managers, and related managers.

2008-09-12 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
On Sep 10, 11:04 pm, Tai Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to propose a `create_or_update` method, similar to > `get_or_create` FYI: there is an old ticket (with patch) for this called update_or_create [1]. .. [1] http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3182

Re: Locations needed for 1.0 sprints.

2008-06-26 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
On Jun 25, 4:58 pm, "Jacob Kaplan-Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up sprints leading up to the 1.0 release, and I need some > volunteers to host a couple of 'em. > > So we need a spot for 8/1, 8/15, and 8/22 -- any takers? It's just out of your date range, but the Utah Open Source

Re: Response to "Shortcutting render_to_response"

2008-06-11 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
For the record, this issue really bothered me too until I found direct_to_template. Now it is a non-issue. On Jun 11, 1:22 pm, Gabriel Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's fairly clear that we're setting > up a dictionary of variables for the template, pulling data from the > Profile model.

Re: Django releases

2008-06-07 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
On Jun 7, 5:17 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Newforms-admin needs to get done. Putting it off from the first couple > betas or RCs will just increase the temptation to put it off further, > so what we should do is identify anything that's slowing it down and > work to resolve

Re: Undocumented admin feature for filtering rows?

2008-01-07 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
On Dec 26 2007, 2:50 pm, jdetaeye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The implementation is not based on customizing the admin, but > implementing a generic view with very similar capabilities as the > django changelist view. In all, around 800 lines of code. Johan, that screenie looks very nice. Any

Re: Newforms suggestions - pre_clean? magic cleaned_data? - access to errors?

2007-08-16 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
> Nathan, perhaps you can post a short excerpt of your code? > > Closures are lovely and all, but newforms needs a few minor but > important design changes so it doesn't require us to do anything even > slightly hackish. It's close, but no cigar - yet. I'd be happy to, however if you feel that

Re: Newforms suggestions - pre_clean? magic cleaned_data? - access to errors?

2007-08-15 Thread Nathaniel Whiteinge
> If your verification logic wants to know what field is verifying now, > you can use closure. > It is simple, Pythonic and doesn't change core :-) Closures; fantastic. The more I learn about Python the shorter and shorter my code gets. :-) Thanks very much for posting this, Vsevolod. I was