Re: Can someone please recommend a book I should get?

On Wednesday 21 Jan 2009 12:56:53 pm elithrar wrote: > And there's also the Google Group if you get stuck and IRC channel -- regards KG http://lawgon.livejournal.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Compare the fields of the same model

Hi i would use raw SQL to retrieve models, that would be the fastest way i quess: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/ from django.db import connection cursor = connection.cursor() cursor.execute(...Sqlquery...) ... ... Other way could look like this: result = []

Re: Can someone please recommend a book I should get?

I'd definitely wait until Practical Django Projects & The Django Book (http://djangobook.com/) are updated to be compatible with Django 1.0+ - the authors of each book have stated that this should be the case by mid this year. The problem with those books is that they don't account for the

Re: html a-href

Hi, more of your code (views, htmls) would help to find where the problem is. So far it looks like Django is unable to find your html file. Or maybe it's something that i'm facing right now, everything is ok but when i call specific view, i get 404 on windows but not on Mac, there's everything

Re: Can someone please recommend a book I should get?

When began with Django a read this book http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Django-Hours/dp/067232959X Maybe reviews are not so good, but it gave me good start, but real learning began when I started to write own projects. And also it's little bit old (Django releases prior to the version

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Keyton Weissinger wrote: > > Oh and just to re-state, this exact same code works like a champ on > import of School or Parent data (neither of which have a ManyToMany > field). > > Keyton I can't reproduce this exception. Try to print

Re: django comments preview posts instead

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:08 -0800, meppum wrote: > I'm not sure if it's a bug, but I had to change the following line: > > value="Preview" /> > > to instead be: > > value="Preview" /> It looks like you're using Django 1.0.0. Strongly recommended to upgrade to version 1.0.2. The above

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

Oh and just to re-state, this exact same code works like a champ on import of School or Parent data (neither of which have a ManyToMany field). Keyton On Jan 20, 11:32 pm, Keyton Weissinger wrote: > Hi Malcolm, > > Thanks very much for the quick reply. I'm using this code as

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

Hi Malcolm, Thanks very much for the quick reply. I'm using this code as part of a view in which I'm processing an import of data (part of my reusable django-batchimport app on google code). Here's a dpaste of the main part of the code: http://dpaste.com/111306/

Re: Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 19:32 -0800, Keyton Weissinger wrote: > Hello, > > OK. I'm totally stuck. I am trying to create an object (of type > Student -- see below) with the following: > > new_student = Student.objects.create(**import_object_dict) > > I'm using the following dictionary as

Possible Model Inheritance Issue? Error: [Model_Name] instance needs to have a primary key value before a many-to-many relationship can be used

Hello, OK. I'm totally stuck. I am trying to create an object (of type Student -- see below) with the following: new_student = Student.objects.create(**import_object_dict) I'm using the following dictionary as "import_object_dict" above (aside from the name of the school, this is fake data, so

Re: httpresponseredirect

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 17:51 -0800, saved...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Malcolm, > > Thanks for you reply. Unfortunately, there is no 404 error message. > For some reason (beyond the scope of my django knowledge), the view > just won't redirect. The scope of my django knowledge. Here are my >

Re: httpresponseredirect

Hello Malcolm, Thanks for you reply. Unfortunately, there is no 404 error message. For some reason (beyond the scope of my django knowledge), the view just won't redirect. The scope of my django knowledge. Here are my simple urls, if that is of any assistance. urlpatterns =

Re: django caching database object

Malcom is absolutely right, apologies for sending untested code to the list. --Derek On Jan 20, 4:53 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:00 -0800, Derek Payton wrote: > > The issue is that CLIENT_CHOICES is only evaluated once, when the > > server

Re: django caching database object

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:00 -0800, Derek Payton wrote: > The issue is that CLIENT_CHOICES is only evaluated once, when the > server is started an all the code is loaded into memory. Try wrapping > it all in a function, thusly: > > def CLIENT_CHOICES() > choices = [ > ('', 'Select

Re: Access production database via development environment

it didn't work ? you got the (remote) server correctly specified etc. ? I haven't tried that myself. I used to do this all the time with my old dev environment (a php framework), its very nice to run the dev code using the remote production db just to check. http://crucial-systems.com On

Re: django caching database object

That makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, it's not working. I tried your suggestion verbatim -- except added : after the CLIENT_CHOICES() function definition. Values only refresh when the server is restarted. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Derek Payton wrote: > > The

Re: httpresponseredirect

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 15:43 -0800, saved...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Malcolm, > > Thanks for your reply. In response to your questions: > > > (a) what does "is_correct" contain when you think you should be entering > > the "correct" branch? Is it really something that will evaluate to >True

Re: httpresponseredirect

Hello Malcolm, Thanks for your reply. In response to your questions: > (a) what does "is_correct" contain when you think you should be entering the > "correct" branch? Is it really something that will evaluate to >True in > Python? In hindsight, "is_correct" was really not required and

I don't even know where to begin writing this template-tags

I'm building a simple banner/promotion system for a site. Aside from a few date-related fields, a banner consists of: - an image - a target url - the image dimensions - some tags (using django-tagging) I'm trying to figure out how to build a template-tag to allow me to display a number of

Login during registration

Hi everyone, I'm trying to create a registration process that includes membership details and a paypal bit (for a non-profit org), and use the registration app as the first step. However, I'd like to log people in when they 'activate' (click the link in the email and return to the site). I've

Re: httpresponseredirect

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:08 -0800, saved...@gmail.com wrote: > i have a quiz app, 4 answers per question, one correct via boolean. > For some reason I can't get the view to redirect to next question if > answer is correct. Whenever I click on the correct answer the app > doesn't redirect to the

Re: Raw SQL parameters

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 11:19 -0800, Ian wrote: > On Jan 19, 5:20 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick > wrote: > > Just to be accurate, PEP 249 says that a paramstyle of "pyformat" is one > > possible value, which would permit the above sort of query. It does not > > say that every

Re: Getting user outside of view

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 07:46 -0800, Dan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to make an application that can log events (changes to the > database) from other django applications. To do this i am currently > using the post_save hook and post_delete hook to get any inserts, > updates or deletes however

Django Responses

I have a general question about creating a response in Django. If I am creating a response using the return django.shortcuts.render_to_response function: return render_to_response( 'template_name.html', {'huge_dictionary_of_data': huge_dictionary_of_data,}, RequestContext(request,

Empty Javascript translation array

Hi there, I've just got the JS catalogs working on my AppEngine/Django project, and can access the JS library just fine, but the 'catalog' array is empty. I have created the djangojs.po files and populated them with the ID/ MSG pairs that I need, but nothing appears in the JS. I'm wondering if

Re: Frankenstein App (or: dynamic subtemplates)

What you're looking for is explained in the documentation on writing your own template tags: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/ Specifically, I'd look into inclusion tags: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#inclusion-tags -Jeff On Jan

httpresponseredirect

i have a quiz app, 4 answers per question, one correct via boolean. For some reason I can't get the view to redirect to next question if answer is correct. Whenever I click on the correct answer the app doesn't redirect to the next question. Could anyone take a look at this and see what I'm

Re: Invalid block tag: "get_comment_count"

Am 19.01.2009 um 22:58 schrieb Briel: > > You should try playing around with the tags, trying to load comments > different places trying some of the other comment tags to see what > happens ect. > Also are you using the block tags? what block tags do you have where > have you placed them in

Access production database via development environment

I was wondering if anyone has been able to access their production environment via the development environment. Because of the amount of data on the production environment, it would be advantageous to be able to just connect to the production database for query purposes. P.S. I tried modifying

Re: ModelForm values.

Should I override/overload the init function in my ApprovalForm class? Am I misusing the ModelForm constructor? On Jan 19, 2:27 pm, "tom.s.macken...@gmail.com" wrote: > I want to create a form based on a model and inject data into it > manually. See below for

Re: Raw SQL parameters

On Jan 19, 5:20 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > Just to be accurate, PEP 249 says that a paramstyle of "pyformat" is one > possible value, which would permit the above sort of query. It does not > say that every conforming database wrapper is required to support it. >

Shortcut for combining "with...as" and "include" template tags?

Hi all, in my templates I often use combinations of "with...as" and "include" for modularization of HTML building blocks, like so: {% with "save" as label %}{% include "components/button.html" %}{% endwith %} however, this is a bit cumbersome if used frequently or if multiple variables must be

Re: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE confusion

* Objective create and save a row/record to the table defined as AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE via the instructions in models.py I'll demonstrate what I've tried to do so far, all which seemed logical but had no effect other than adding a row to auth.user and registration.registrationprofile. my custom

Re: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE confusion

Hello NoviceSortOf, On Jan 20, 8:42 am, NoviceSortOf wrote: > * django-registration is installed and works great Yes, it is! Thank you James Bennett! > * i'd suspect that somewhere in models.py there would be a hook for > this, >   there is reference to something called

Re: django caching database object

The issue is that CLIENT_CHOICES is only evaluated once, when the server is started an all the code is loaded into memory. Try wrapping it all in a function, thusly: def CLIENT_CHOICES() choices = [ ('', 'Select Client'), ] clients =

Frankenstein App (or: dynamic subtemplates)

Hi to all! I'm a long time python developer. For my web application needs I've been relying on PHP, but I'm trying to switch to Django. I'm in the learning phase. A thing that is puzzling me is how to compose various apps like a puzzle with "main" pages. An example. Suppose that I have a home

Re: django caching database object

Hi Malcolm, I'm building my forms in a file called forms.py. This is how I populate the choice list: CLIENT_CHOICES = [ ('', 'Select Client'), ] clients = CustomerMaster.objects.all().order_by('customer_name') for client in clients: CLIENT_CHOICES.extend([(client.id,

Re: Change label for 'None' value in ModelChoiceField

On Jan 20, 7:11 pm, "Karen Tracey" wrote: > From a brief glance at the source, try specifying empty_label='whatever you > want' as a parameter to the ModelChoiceField. This probably should be > documented, but I can't find it. Wow, strange, I could have sworn that I tried

Re: Multiple images in form

Yeah, I had to add a related_name to my ForeignKeys e.g: first_photo = models.ForeignKey(Image, blank=True, null=True, related_name="first photo") The problem now is that with foreign keys, it generates a drop down list to select the images - whereas, I want a browse type text box to choose

Re: Change label for 'None' value in ModelChoiceField

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Flo Ledermann wrote: > > Hi all, > > I want to change the default label for the None value in a > ModelChoiceField from the default '' to something more > meaningful in the context of my app. > > After some research I tried

Re: Confused with annotate() and filter().

@Alex: Nope, that's only pulling back entry's that have approved comments. On Jan 20, 12:43 pm, "alex.gay...@gmail.com" wrote: > On Jan 20, 11:53 am, tlow wrote: > > > > > I think you can not do that with only one query using annotate. > > > You

Re: Confused with annotate() and filter().

I'm currently using the extra method (subquery) and it's working perfectly. Thanks for clearing that up for me Thomas. On Jan 20, 11:53 am, tlow wrote: > I think you can not do that with only one query using annotate. > > You could do it manually in python using the

Change label for 'None' value in ModelChoiceField

Hi all, I want to change the default label for the None value in a ModelChoiceField from the default '' to something more meaningful in the context of my app. After some research I tried subclassing the ModelChoiceField, overriding the label_from_instance method like so: class

Re: Confused with annotate() and filter().

On Jan 20, 11:53 am, tlow wrote: > I think you can not do that with only one query using annotate. > > You could do it manually in python using the code above including the > additional filter on comment_approved and merge all (entry, number) > pairs with

Getting user outside of view

Hello, I am trying to make an application that can log events (changes to the database) from other django applications. To do this i am currently using the post_save hook and post_delete hook to get any inserts, updates or deletes however i am unable to get the user that caused them. Is there a

Re: Confused with annotate() and filter().

I think you can not do that with only one query using annotate. You could do it manually in python using the code above including the additional filter on comment_approved and merge all (entry, number) pairs with Entry.objects.all() using 0 for entries which are not listed in your first query.

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

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Re: AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE confusion

Thanks creecode: I've read those docs in the past, but they do help in further refreshing my memory, and further refining the question. * django-registration is installed and works great, the only problem I have is that somehow I need to populate the profiles table defined as

Re: Count Null Values in Annotate

Found simple workaround. Just use count on the primary key column instead: objects_aggr = objects.values(name).annotate(count_without_null=Count (attribute), count_with_null=Count("pk")).order_by(name) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Accessing filter values on the admin site? (i.e. need help running a filter-dependent script)

Hello, I'm customizing the admin site, and I've run into an issue I cannot find the solution to. I'm trying to create a new button on the change_list page that, when pressed, runs a particular script with input values dependent on the filters that are currently applied to that change_list page.

ValidationError: [u'ManagementForm data is missing or has been tampered with']

I have this model: http://dpaste.com/111206/ and this admin.py: http://dpaste.com/111207/ but when I try to edit an existing "Impresa" i get a ValidationError: ManagementForm data is missing or has been tampered with what's the problem? -- Alessandro Ronchi Skype: aronchi

Re: Changing the default filter values in the admin site?

Same problem here.. and as Eric, I couldn't understand the FilterSpec thing.. It seems that every filter is a GET request but it's not clear where to specify it.. Thanks in advance! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Django Sphinx

All fixed - anyone who stumbles across this error - update to the latest trunk of django-sphinx and works fine! On Jan 20, 1:23 pm, Alfonso wrote: > Hello, > > I've used django-sphinx/sphinx engine in the past and found it a > fantasic solution but now running into a

Re: One application with different databases

Well, after googling and checking the django-project website, i found an option to manage saession. By default, the SESSION_ENGINE use the db backend. I changed it to use file and voila. All works fine. I'll do some more test. Cia On 20 jan, 15:50, "e.ban...@malezieux.com"

Confused with annotate() and filter().

Here are my models: class Entry(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200, unique=True) date_published = models.DateTimeField() is_published = models.BooleanField(default=False) class Comment(models.Model): entry = models.ForeignKey('Entry')

One application with different databases

Hi, i'm using django (svn 1.1 pre-alpha). I have a project with 3 apps. All i want is to allow different website to acces this project but each website use a different database. So to do that, i've create different vhost in apache conf and in the settings.py file i check which database the

Re: Pre-filling form data without submission?

Thanks guys, I'm gonna give this a try! Mike. On Jan 20, 1:53 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Jan 20, 12:56 pm, "shogunm...@googlemail.com" > > > > wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > > I had a look at the docs,

Re: Multiple images in form

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:28 AM, DragonSlayre wrote: > [snip details of problem] > > This gives me loads of errors - i'm pretty sure it's because of the > ForeignKeys. > Without trying it, I'm guessing you got four errors. If they are the errors I think they are, the error

Re: ifequal with floatformat:"0" doesn't work

Just now {% ifequal %} tag doesn't apply filters to its operands. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:58 PM, ltcstyle wrote: > > is this a bug or what? > > {{float_number|floatformat:"0"}} give me correct number 1 > > but > {% ifequal float_number|floatformat:"0" 1 %} > never match >

Re: Pre-filling form data without submission?

On Jan 20, 12:56 pm, "shogunm...@googlemail.com" wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > I had a look at the docs, but it seems I have to enter the initial > values at the Form definition level. However, I am interested in > entering dynamic data

Re: Pre-filling form data without submission?

Hi, at python level you can do it like this (untested): def myview(request, ...): form=MyForm(..., initial={'email': request.user.email}) or form.fields['email'].initial=request.user.email shogunm...@googlemail.com schrieb: > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks for your quick reply! > > I had a look

Django Sphinx

Hello, I've used django-sphinx/sphinx engine in the past and found it a fantasic solution but now running into a problem in a new build I haven't seen before: So sphinx is all set up and working and in the appropriate view I have: def search(request): search_query =

Enhanced versions of simple_tag?

Hi all, Since a good portion of my development time is spent trying to avoid ways to write custom template tags (worst part of Django, fact) I was wondering if anyone knows of a more powerful version of the simple_tag. Ideally I'm looking for one that allows me to use this: def

[Aggregation] Count Null Values in Annotate

Hey, I want to count even null values using annotate. Is there a way to do that? Here is what I've done: objects_aggr = objects.values(name).annotate(value=Count (attribute)).order_by(name) This does exactly what I want except that it does not count null values. To count even null values I

Re: Can I get the request object into the django.contrib.auth.views.password_change view template?

Hi Malcolm, On 20 Jan 2009, at 02:33, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 02:07 +, Hans Fangohr wrote: > [...] >> However, in the template files, I extend my base.html which makes use >> of the request object (basically checking whether the request has as >> authenticated

Re: Pre-filling form data without submission?

Hi Thomas, Thanks for your quick reply! I had a look at the docs, but it seems I have to enter the initial values at the Form definition level. However, I am interested in entering dynamic data depending on who is viewing the form. For instance, in my case I want the user's email address to be

How to get auth.login to redirect to a https URL

Hi Does anyone know hot to get auth .login redirect to an https URL Currently i'm running my site behind an SSL enabled reverse proxy redirects to http. If i don't supply a URL login redirects http://accounts/profile I've tried to supply the full URL but auth.login does not allow this I was

Re: Pre-filling form data without submission?

shogunm...@googlemail.com schrieb: > Hi guys, > > I've hunted around the docs and googled this (it's quite a niche > scenario so a bit hard to find!) and I'm still a bit stuck! I was > hoping somebody might be able to help out! > > Can anyone tell me how to pre-fill form data without the form >

Pre-filling form data without submission?

Hi guys, I've hunted around the docs and googled this (it's quite a niche scenario so a bit hard to find!) and I'm still a bit stuck! I was hoping somebody might be able to help out! Can anyone tell me how to pre-fill form data without the form automatically calling submit on the form so that

ifequal with floatformat:"0" doesn't work

is this a bug or what? {{float_number|floatformat:"0"}} give me correct number 1 but {% ifequal float_number|floatformat:"0" 1 %} never match Any ideas? Thanks --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Changing the default filter values in the admin site?

Hello, when using the django admin site, none of my filters are initially applied to the change-list page (all filters are instead set to "All"). I'm wondering if there's a way to change this so that by default, one of the filters is applied. This was also asked here,

Re: 'RelatedObject' object has no attribute 'unique'

Hello Bruno, Karen Tracey solved my issue and now i will be able to apply those refactoring you suggested me. Thanks for tips :-) Att Thiago On Jan 19, 7:18 pm, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > On 19 jan, 18:04, "Thiago F. Crepaldi" wrote: > >

Re: 'RelatedObject' object has no attribute 'unique'

Hello Karen, First of all, I really would like to thank you for helping me solve this issue. Your fix (downloaded from http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/9778?format=zip=9778) was perfect and my form is working again, but now with a final release (1.0.2) instead of a development one (svn

Can someone please recommend a book I should get?

Hi, I'm trying to find a good and a comprehensive book to learn Django. I found few great books on Amazon. The only problem with these books is that they were finished before Django went 1.0 out, so there are undoubtedly some places where things are not quite in sync with Django 1.0. Now,

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

I changed function CustomFileBrowser(field_name, url, type, win) { into function DjangoFileBrowser(field_name, url, type, win) { and it works ... Thank you krylatij, it was not a setting problem, anyway, thank you :) On 20 jan, 11:11, martyn wrote: > I have > >

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

I have tinyMCE.init( ... "file_browser_callback": "DjangoFileBrowser" ) using django-tinymce. What's wrong ??? This app doesn't look at the settings ? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users"

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

Ok, thank you, I've changed my settings, with unfortunately no result : TINYMCE_DEFAULT_CONFIG = { 'dialog_type' : "modal", 'extended_valid_elements' : "a[name|href|target|title|onclick| rel]", 'theme':'advanced', 'theme_advanced_toolbar_location' : "top",

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

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Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

some magic... mh 'file_browser_callback' : "Abracadabra", On 20 jan, 09:01, krylatij wrote: > Look into your settings again. > I've had such problem before. > After some magic with settings everything works. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

Re: Deleting m2m relationship without deleting the data

Hi Malcolm, Thanks for the tip! It works like I wanted it to. Thanks! On Jan 20, 4:44 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 22:38 -0800, I.A wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I apologize for the confusing title. > > > I'm still confused on using the models in a

Re: FileBrowser and TinyMCE

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