best practices for a production site

2008-01-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I have a site in production and being developed at the same time - a common django usecase I am sure. This is the first time I am developing a site with a team comprised of several remote contributors also. My previous teams were all in the same lab. Currently everyone with commit

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread SamFeltus
Django generates the shiniest, happiest pages of any web framework... :) http://samfeltus.com/pythonista/MardiGrasPreview.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Jan-08, at 12:20 AM, LRP wrote: > I'm still having a problem since my shell can't seem to find django- > admin.py. I know it's there; found it in /usr/share/python-support/ > python-django/django/bin. this will not be on your path - and why debian packagers created that weird directory

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> TurboGears would be a terrible choice. Python does not do well on threads > and has been known to lock up solid when executing a fork() out of a > thread. Also, unless you feel your webserver should use very little of > your computers resources, the threaded approach of TurboGears may not

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Rock. Little less convenient from a file management standpoint, but it works. On Jan 17, 7:06 pm, Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put shared in site-packages right alongside django. Problem solved. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not sure that I see how this would be any different than adding the correct directory to the pythonpath. On Jan 17, 7:06 pm, Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Put shared in site-packages right alongside django. Problem solved. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: django multi application, multi database, need to sync..

2008-01-17 Thread otonk
> Create the sync script using the Python DB API directly (no Django > ORM). And then trigger it either automatically with the cron job or > manually, by wrapping that script inside django view. You may want to > add `modified` DateTimeField to all your Django models and store the > last sync

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread Rock
Put shared in site-packages right alongside django. Problem solved. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread Rock
The templates have to be within a directory named "templates" found in the /var/www/ directory. BUT DON'T PUT TEMPLATES THERE! Put the templates dir in the same directory as your settings.py file and set the path accordingly in the settings.py file. Here is another good alternative: Comment

Re: about dpaste

2008-01-17 Thread Collin Grady
On Jan 17, 6:28 am, "Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, I need to know how can I search, explore for codes > inhttp://dpaste.com/ > I really can't figure out how. You can't - it is not a database of snippets like djangosnippets.org, but instead a pastebin -

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread Collin Grady
On Jan 17, 4:01 pm, LRP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm, I'm wondering... I'd have little to contribute beyond my > personal blunders, but I'd be delighted to work with any folks who'd > like to prepare a Debian-specific addendum to the on-line Django > tutorial. Personally, I don't think the

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread Karen Tracey
On Jan 17, 2008 2:08 PM, code_berzerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, though the settings.py you posted has TEMPLATE_DIRS with your '/ > > var/www...'directory listed, the one you are running with has no > > TEMPLATE_DIRS. > > Yes I've noticed that, but I use settings.py listed above. Django

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread LRP
Hello, Wow. This list is not only friendly, it parties! Thanks to tips from Jeff Anderson, Tim Chase, and Forest Bond, I now have start-up directories. The trick: Debian redirects django-admin.py to django-admin. And, as Forest Bond points out, django-admin is in a shell-executable path. I

Re: Error accessing "'/media" directory

2008-01-17 Thread Rodrigo Culagovski
Thanks, that did the trick! Cheers, Rodrigo On Jan 17, 8:35 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 6:24 PM, Rodrigo Culagovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I am using the following in my urls.py: > > > (r'^media_/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', > >

Re: Error accessing "'/media" directory

2008-01-17 Thread Karen Tracey
On Jan 17, 2008 6:24 PM, Rodrigo Culagovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using the following in my urls.py: > > (r'^media_/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', > {'document_root': > os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'media').replace('\\','/')}), > > Notice the '_' after 'media. > >

Error accessing "'/media" directory

2008-01-17 Thread Rodrigo Culagovski
I am using the following in my urls.py: (r'^media_/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'media').replace('\\','/')}), Notice the '_' after 'media. This allows me to access my media folder using for example:

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:50:50AM -0800, LRP wrote: > django-admin.py is marked as executable, as is it's containing directory. So > now I need to find out why it's not in the search path. But this is probably > a question for another forum. Maybe a little less time writing nautical prose

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:25:30PM -0600, Tim Chase wrote: > > > I'm still having a problem since my shell can't seem to find django- > > admin.py. I know it's there; found it in /usr/share/python-support/ > > python-django/django/bin. > > Just to prevent other "dunder-headed mistakes", I

Re: Django shared hosting

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just go webfaction and save yourself a lot of pain later. They give quite a bit of space, and if you really need insane space for media or something, just keep a dreamhost (or whoever) account laying around. Rodrigo Culagovski wrote: > Can anybody recomend a shared-hosting that: > > a) is Django

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Chase
> I'm still having a problem since my shell can't seem to find django- > admin.py. I know it's there; found it in /usr/share/python-support/ > python-django/django/bin. Just to prevent other "dunder-headed mistakes", I presume it's truely named "django-admin.py", not just "django-admin". :)

Django shared hosting

2008-01-17 Thread Rodrigo Culagovski
Can anybody recomend a shared-hosting that: a) is Django ready, with the svn-version installed or installable b) is as good or better and as cheap or cheaper then Webfaction c) gives you an insane amount of space (like Dreamhost) Basically, I need a host for a new project, and am thinking of

Problem in installing Django on Windows XP

2008-01-17 Thread new_to_django_install
I am quite new in Django, and trying to installing. I have the following error when I want to run the command for installing Django: C:\Django>setup.py install running install running build running build_py package init file '\django\__init__.py' not found (or not a regular file) error: package

Re: How do _you_ handle versioning your CSS/JS files?

2008-01-17 Thread Udi
In my base template: In my ant build script: /* checksum is built into ant on most os's, so it's easier than using svn */ CSS_CHECKSUM On Jan 16, 6:11 pm, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a bunch of articles about versioning your CSS/JS so you can > set an infinite

GeoDjango: distance calculation

2008-01-17 Thread kmishler
We are starting to use geodjango (revision 7003) and are having problems using the api to calculate distance. class Airport(models.Model): icao = models.CharField('ICAO', max_length=4) location = models.PointField() The location field will eventually be populated using lat/longs from a

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread code_berzerker
> So, though the settings.py you posted has TEMPLATE_DIRS with your '/ > var/www...'directory listed, the one you are running with has no > TEMPLATE_DIRS. Yes I've noticed that, but I use settings.py listed above. Django uses db configuration from that file and other things too. Somehow

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yeah, that's the one I have. Like I said, everything works, 'cept manage.py. I can get by without it, but it'd be nice to have the sql functions and syncdb. On Jan 17, 12:57 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, that was the only obvious thought that I had.  Just to make >

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm, that was the only obvious thought that I had. Just to make sure...you know that the _parent_ directory to "shared" is really the one that you want to be on your Python path, correct? On Jan 17, 12:38 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 12:29 pm, "[EMAIL

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread LRP
Hello, Many many thanks for the thoughtful corrections and comments. Particularly... Karen Tracey for pointing out my dunder- headed mistake in running django-admin.py from Python rather than shell command line. I'm still having a problem since my shell can't seem to find django- admin.py. I

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 17, 12:29 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try creating a blank file named __init__.py in the directory named > "shared".  That way, Python knows that it's a module. > Thanks floguy, but I've done that already. I see that it's compiled, too. As near as I can tell,

Re: Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try creating a blank file named __init__.py in the directory named "shared". That way, Python knows that it's a module. On Jan 17, 11:30 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked this before, but I think it got lost in another issue. For > those who've already seen it, I

Problem with manage.py and shared app/project structure

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I asked this before, but I think it got lost in another issue. For those who've already seen it, I apologize for being repetitive. What I'm trying to do is have a setup like: project1/ project2/ shared/ With shared holding a bunch of apps both project 1 and project 2 are using. I've got the

Re: open flash chart & django

2008-01-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm embarrassed to admit I can't remember exactly which flash charting solution I went with, but I believe it was XML/SWF: http://www.maani.us/xml_charts/index.php?menu=Introduction You can see it here: http://classicmotorsports.net/project-cars/1970-datsun-240z/ Scroll down to "on the dyno",

Re: How get list value of cursor.fetchall() in template

2008-01-17 Thread Karen Tracey
On Jan 17, 12:10 pm, Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo > > For a reason I had to customize the Manager class of a model: > > class QueueManager(models.Manager): > def usedInputs(self, id): > from django.db import connection > cursor = connection.cursor() >

How get list value of cursor.fetchall() in template

2008-01-17 Thread Nader
Hallo For a reason I had to customize the Manager class of a model: class QueueManager(models.Manager): def usedInputs(self, id): from django.db import connection cursor = connection.cursor() cursor.execute(""" SELECT * FROM usedInput WHERE jobID=%s""" %

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread Karen Tracey
Somehow you are not using the version of the settings.py file you think you are. See below. On Jan 17, 11:26 am, code_berzerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to solve the problem I added following code to settings.py: > > ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS = ( > '/var/www', > ) > Just FYI, as far

Re: Templates with multiple repeating blocks

2008-01-17 Thread AmanKow
On Jan 16, 3:41 am, stryderjzw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, everyone. > > I like this idea. That really helped. I hope this gets considered. > > Cheers, > Justin Ok, as soon as I get a chance, I'll get some docs and tests done and post a ticket with a patch. That should greatly

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread code_berzerker
Trying to solve the problem I added following code to settings.py: ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS = ( '/var/www', ) but it didnt help. I skipped this error for a bit and continued with tutorial and heres backtrace of what happened later and also my settings.py content.

Re: how to pass dynamic number of not named args to the view?

2008-01-17 Thread sector119
it's smart, readable urls and lite regexp :) thanks :) On 17 Січ, 16:52, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 7:19 AM, sector119 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I decide to create delete_many view and I want to pass dynamic number > > of args to it using urls: > > >

Re: open flash chart & django

2008-01-17 Thread Marty Alchin
I've been considering this, but haven't gotten around to actually doing so. Keep us posted if you have any success. -Gul --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group,

open flash chart & django

2008-01-17 Thread patrickk
has anybody succesfully used "open flash chart" with django? i´ve been downloading the files and installed it, but the (flash)data isn´t displayed. questions are: - where do you put the files? guess OpenFlashChart.py should be somewhere on the PYTHONPATH whereas the .swf and .js-files are in the

Re: how to pass dynamic number of not named args to the view?

2008-01-17 Thread Marty Alchin
On Jan 17, 2008 7:19 AM, sector119 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decide to create delete_many view and I want to pass dynamic number > of args to it using urls: > > /streets/street/1/delete/ > /streets/street/12/3/4/delete/ > /streets/street/7/12/43/98/192/delete/ > > what regexp in urls.py an

Re: about dpaste

2008-01-17 Thread Simon Rivada
As far as I know there is no search engine present at dpaste.com. Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao wrote: > Hi folks, I need to know how can I search, explore for codes in > http://dpaste.com/ > I really can't figure out how. > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

about dpaste

2008-01-17 Thread Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
Hi folks, I need to know how can I search, explore for codes in http://dpaste.com/ I really can't figure out how. -- Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao Cupet - Todos somos muy ignorantes, lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos lo

Re: Unable to find custom filters

2008-01-17 Thread Rajesh Dhawan
On Jan 16, 11:30 pm, Collin Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He did add it - 'test2.test' I don't think so. If you look at the original post, the custom filters file is in the app called 'app'. Taking that into account he would need to add something like 'test2.app'.

Re: I think the django's froms js too complicated and not flexible , is there anybody agree?

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 6:30 AM, maoxl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > writing a html form is just NOT so complicated, and I really don't > think it deserve a py package as luxury as the > django.contrib.newfroms . why not just write html forms by hand . > I'm a new comer to django, hoping somebody tell me

Re: I think the django's froms js too complicated and not flexible , is there anybody agree?

2008-01-17 Thread Grindizer
Writing a html form is a very repetitive task: design a form (generaly taken from some db field), prepare the html, render it, get the result, validate it, and save it to db. newforms lib gathers all what this tasks have in commun (and some times more) and i'am really convinced that it is far to

about dbpaste

2008-01-17 Thread Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao
Hi folks, I need to know how can I search, explore for codes in http://dpaste.com/ I really can't figure out how. -- Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao Cupet - Todos somos muy ignorantes, lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos lo

Re: Problem with loading fixture xml to Postgres database

2008-01-17 Thread knight
I'm not sure, but I think it's a problem with the psycopg backend under Python 2.3.5. When I loaded fixtures with Python 2.3.5 I got no errors and the fixtures haven't been loaded. When I loaded fixtures with Python 2.5 I got an error and when I fixed it the fixtures were loaded. I used the same

I think the django's froms js too complicated and not flexible , is there anybody agree?

2008-01-17 Thread maoxl
writing a html form is just NOT so complicated, and I really don't think it deserve a py package as luxury as the django.contrib.newfroms . why not just write html forms by hand . I'm a new comer to django, hoping somebody tell me the philosophy behind the design of newforms

how to pass dynamic number of not named args to the view?

2008-01-17 Thread sector119
I decide to create delete_many view and I want to pass dynamic number of args to it using urls: /streets/street/1/delete/ /streets/street/12/3/4/delete/ /streets/street/7/12/43/98/192/delete/ what regexp in urls.py an view definition have I to use in my situation? view definition, I think,

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Chase
> I fully agree with you. This is generaly not a very good > design, but i think we can do some exception for a very > specific problems. For example, i found this very handy, when > we have to support a multilingual db: getting the current > language like this and use it to select the right

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 5:36 AM, Grindizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example, i found this very handy, when we have to support a > multilingual db: getting the current language like this and use it to > select the right values in db can save us a lot of work, and result in > a more clear views

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread Grindizer
I fully agree with you. This is generaly not a very good design, but i think we can do some exception for a very specific problems. For example, i found this very handy, when we have to support a multilingual db: getting the current language like this and use it to select the right values in db

Re: Internationalization

2008-01-17 Thread Artiom Diomin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 By the way, I've noticed that template tag {% edit_translation %} in this project assumes oldforms Alex Koshelev пишет: | http://code.google.com/p/django-multilingual/ | Helps you to have translations for database entries -BEGIN PGP

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread code_berzerker
On Jan 17, 5:33 am, Collin Grady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 16, 11:22 am, code_berzerker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I put my templates somewhere in /var/www/ just beside project code and > > media files. > > If /var/www is a web root, your project code should *not* be there. >

Re: Django Tutorial02 / TEMPLATE_DIRS

2008-01-17 Thread code_berzerker
On Jan 16, 8:36 pm, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. settings.TEMPLATE_LOADERS contains the entry > django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source before the > entry django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source the order is correct > 2. the path specified

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread James Bennett
On Jan 17, 2008 5:00 AM, Grindizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - If you want to retrieve the current logged user at model level, this > is a little more complicated, because models are note designed to see > what happen at process level, but it still possible, look at this: Any code which

Re: Private (owner) vs. public records

2008-01-17 Thread Grindizer
- If you want retrieve all Person objects that can be viewed by a user, this is possible with this query: persons = Person.objects.filter( Q(owner=my_user) | Q(public=True) ) my_user is the current logged user, so this query, in designed to be executed in a view function. - If you want to

Re: django multi application, multi database, need to sync..

2008-01-17 Thread Ivan Illarionov
On 17 янв, 05:58, otonk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, i am currently designing two or more django application, one > application act as the master application, contains all the data, the > other application has partial function of the master application. The > master database belongs to the

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Re: Loading Template

2008-01-17 Thread laspal
Ok thanks got it. On Jan 17, 1:20 pm, shabda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Save yourself the trouble of writing a view function and use the > generic view > direct_to_templatehttp://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/#django-view... > > On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL

Re: These waters aren't so friendly after all

2008-01-17 Thread michael
> > ...well, the local folks are friendly enough. > > Last I washed upon these sands, capsized on the first leg of my maiden > voyage, I was advised that my vessel, django 0.95.1-1, running on > Linux Debian Etch, was a relic beyond salvage. > > So back in port, I smash a magnum of champagne

Re: Loading Template

2008-01-17 Thread shabda
Save yourself the trouble of writing a view function and use the generic view direct_to_template http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/generic_views/#django-views-generic-simple-direct-to-template On Jan 17, 12:50 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 2:32 AM,