Re: Registration

Before going to answer of your question i am really sure that you have not read the docs of django-registration and django docs any way if you want to make it use django-registration(default) then install it and write in settings.py 'registration'(below of your appname) in your site

django-importer released!

Hi all, I've released a project on Google Code to create importers for Django models. Here is the blog release and the project page: http://ricobl.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/django-importer-released/ http://code.google.com/p/django-importer/ Any comments are welcome! Best regards, Enrico

Re: Best way to get a proxy model instance from a base class instance

Ryan, Thank you so much. The custom auth backend is the perfect solution. I feel silly now that I didn't think of that :) Very nice work. Hope I can pay you back someday. Paul On Apr 20, 7:26 pm, Ryan Kelly wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:17 -0700, Paul McLanahan wrote: > >

Multi Page Form With Database Persistence

I need to create a multiple page form that upon submit the information is saved to the database so the user can finish it later. I want to be able to check the data filled out on the form and depending on the values entered present different pages to the user. I know this is possible, I just

Re: Best way to get a proxy model instance from a base class instance

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 15:17 -0700, Paul McLanahan wrote: > I'm using a proxy model of django.contrib.auth.models.User to override > __unicode__ and add some extra methods. This also means that I use my > proxy model class in my ForeignKey and ManyToMany fields. This is all > find and good until I

Re: TemplateSyntaxError "Invalid block tag: 'include'"

Nevermind! I figured it out. Just for reference for those with a similar problem: "extends" and "include" aren't part of 'Template' and must be separately included: from django.template import Template, Context, loader from django.http import HttpResponse def render(request):

Re: How to relate child instance to Parent?

Thanks Dougal, That was really helpful. I was only picking User auth as an example. But the truth is there are many others models of mine that inherit from another class. Thank you very much On Apr 21, 1:25 am, Dougal Matthews wrote: > I think its as simple as; > > x =

TemplateSyntaxError "Invalid block tag: 'include'"

Hey guys, new to Django, and i'm having a little trouble just getting basic includes working. I have a basic template "world.html" as follows: {% include 'hello.html' %} World With "hello.html" as follows: Hello - I'm getting the following

Best way to get a proxy model instance from a base class instance

I'm using a proxy model of django.contrib.auth.models.User to override __unicode__ and add some extra methods. This also means that I use my proxy model class in my ForeignKey and ManyToMany fields. This is all find and good until I need to use request.user and assign it to an instance of another

Secure way to allow user with permission to delete a model instance from template?

>From the docs: "A good example is the delete() method on each Django model object. The template system shouldn't be allowed to do something like this: I will now delete this valuable data. {{ data.delete }}" What method should I use for allowing a user to delete an instance of the model using

Re: Webpy vs Django

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:39 -0700, Vishwajeet wrote: > Hi All, > > This is not to flame any war; I just wanted to know the key features > to consider among the two web frame works. > > What advantage and disadvantages you have when you decide using any > one of them. > > Thanks for your help >

Re: nested loop issue

yes! that works exactly the way i wanted shouldnt that be part of Django? feels like a very fundamental piece of logic. Also yeah you're right about the URL. On Apr 20, 6:14 am, Tom Evans wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:40 -0700, Johan wrote: > > Hello > > I have a

Re: Problem pickling querysets with memcached

Thanks for replying Anatolly, I'm 0-2 on it crashing on other peoples machines. I have it doing the identical thing on 2 machines, one of which is using python 2.5 and django svn. The other is using python 2.6 and django svn. Both are using the 1.2 series of memcached and I have tried using

Re: FileUploadHandler not called in realtime

legutierr wrote: > Thomasz- Have you figured out a solution to this problem?  Did you log > a bug in the defect tracker? No and no. Never thought it might be connected to Django in any way if it's already in the docs and everything. Might well be worth a try. I will file a

Re: Problem pickling querysets with memcached

Works for me. What version of python, django, memcached and python memcache bindings you use? On 20 апр, 11:41, libwilliam wrote: > http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/174510/pickle_test.tar.gz > > I am having trouble pickling querysets. I don't have any problem when > using local

Re: don't know how to use http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/

On Apr 20, 8:16 pm, bconnors wrote: > How do I set up a initial_data.json file? > Athttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/ > > I came across this “Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can > be written as XML, YAML, or JSON documents. The

don't know how to use http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/

How do I set up a initial_data.json file? At http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/ I came across this “Or, you can write fixtures by hand; fixtures can be written as XML, YAML, or JSON documents. The serialization documentation has more details about each of these supported

Webpy vs Django

Hi All, This is not to flame any war; I just wanted to know the key features to consider among the two web frame works. What advantage and disadvantages you have when you decide using any one of them. Thanks for your help --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

django.views.generic.date_based.object_detail called through a custom function - simple issue

Hi all, i'm trying to calling a genric view from a simple custom view (why? see this http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/b5692e73f2b52b9) but i'm running into trouble when feeding the django.views.generic.date_based.object_detail my slug parameter. I'm trying this:

Re: recieving GET from generic views - arrrrgh

cheers again for the response. However the code i used to get the wrapper working is given below def searchwrap(request): error = False if 'q' in request.GET: q = request.GET['q'] if not q: error = True else: articles =

Configuring the database

Hi guys, I'm reading django book chapter 5 (www.djangobook.com), and it is about how to connect with databases and how to use them with django. I've been having really hard time downloading MySQL and using it! I rock when it comes to SQL, and i really would love to use mysql, it's just that the

Re: Problem with in long text fields in templates

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:47 -0700, NoviceSortOf wrote: > By digging around here in this group I found > an answer in using > > {{ book.description|safe }} > It's just a minor thing, since you said this content comes from data entry, but this allows all HTML in book.description to be

Problem creating object

I'm trying to manually create an object (from a signal). My problem is that the object has a 'sites' M2M field: class News_item(models.Model): ... sites = models.ManyToManyField(Site) ... but when I try to create the object: news = News_item(

Re: Problem with in long text fields in templates

On Apr 20, 11:31 am, NoviceSortOf wrote: [...] > When attempt to using {{ book.description }} in the template, it > outputs all the tags onto the screen, > when what we want is actual line breaks. > [...] > > Can someone please give me a clue as to how to make this work

Re: Problem with in long text fields in templates

By digging around here in this group I found an answer in using {{ book.description|safe }} --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Problem with in long text fields in templates

I've a template that displays descriptions of books. The descriptions are long text fields usually containing 1-3 paragraphs of text. Inside the text description during data entry tags are placed to indicate line breaks. When attempt to using {{ book.description }} in the template, it outputs

Re: Django ACL Design Question

Tim, Thanks for the sample code. It was exactly what I was looking for. I'm still debating my route but it's nice to know what I want to do is possible. Thanks. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > > >def

Re: Split models.py to smaller parts.

On Apr 20, 2:57 am, x_O wrote: > Hi > > I'm looking for some general solution how to split models.py. Right > now my models.py reached 1000 lines and that argues some how with good > programing behaviour that I used use. > > I'm thinking about: > myproject/ >    

Re: inlineformsets version 1.0.2

Good stuff, thanks for the reply all. Roll on 1.0.3! On Apr 20, 4:19 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM, chewynougat < > > peter_i_campb...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > >> We

Re: How to relate child instance to Parent?

I think its as simple as; x = Staff() user_obj = x.user I found that by just printing out the result of dir(Staff()) ;) I think however, you want to add to add a subclass for a user that already exists. I'm not sure how you can do that, or if you can. The recommended guide to extending/adding

Inline admin model and id of parent model object

Hi! I've got 2 admin models like these: class MyUserServiceAdminForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = UserService def clean(self): Get client_id for validation??? return cleaned_data class UserServiceAdmin(admin.TabularInline): model = UserService fields =

Re: inlineformsets version 1.0.2

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM, chewynougat < > peter_i_campb...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> We have recently upgraded django to 1.0.2 but this has subsequently >> broken some inlineformsets we have. I'm not sure if

Re: inlineformsets version 1.0.2

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:18 AM, chewynougat wrote: > > We have recently upgraded django to 1.0.2 but this has subsequently > broken some inlineformsets we have. I'm not sure if this is a django > bug or if it is an error in our code, although the code pretty

Re: Running django test suite

Regarding failures 1 and 2 in the error output for the django test suite which are listed here http://dpaste.com/34864/ . I recently ran the tests on svn revision 10604. Failure 1 - The error was referred to in ticket http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6802 . Should this ticket be

Re: Help request: postgresql_psycopg2 connection problem under wsgi (but under runserver and dbshell its fine!)

My guess is that your connection string specifies connecting as user "acacian", specifies no password and that you've been logged in as a user with the same name to run runserver. The default configuration of postgresql allows users to connect as a postgresql user of the same name as them without

Re: Creating custom feeds

Even more. How feeds are different from any other pages? What if I will simply generate a template of needed structure using django models + views (as described in tutorials) Thanks, Oleg On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Oleg Oltar wrote: > Hi! > > I want to create RSS2

Re: nested loop issue

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:40 -0700, Johan wrote: > Hello > I have a problem I cant get my head around. > I want to list through a bunch of people and see which one im friends > with and which ones i can add as a friend. sort of twitter style. > If it throw in an else it will hit on every step of

Re: Models Aliases

Thanks Alex, I didn't know this function, that's what I needed! Bastien On Apr 20, 1:40 pm, Alex Koshelev wrote: > Hi, Bastien. > > I think the simple solution with property may be the best aproach if > you cannot change dependent code: > > user = property(lambda self:

How to relate child instance to Parent?

Dear all, I have an inheritance model as such: class User(models.Model) class Staff(User) Now I already have the instance of User inside view: user = User.objects.create(name="Joe") now how do I relate this user instance to the staff instance? I tried looking in the documentation but can

Creating custom feeds

Hi! I want to create RSS2 feed. I read the doc http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/0.96/syndication_feeds/ So created a class # coding: utf-8 from django.contrib.syndication.feeds import Feed from articleManager.models import Article as article class LatestEntries(Feed): title =

Re: Models Aliases

Hi, Bastien. I think the simple solution with property may be the best aproach if you cannot change dependent code: user = property(lambda self: self.author) On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Bastien wrote: > > You're right Dougal, I *should* do that I have various

Re: Models Aliases

You're right Dougal, I *should* do that I have various apps already working with the whole project trying to access object.user in general and I was wondering if there was a clean way to alias author. I'm already using some workarounds but it's dirty... On Apr 20, 1:26 pm, Dougal Matthews

Re: Registration

Thanks for the continued help. I have written the URLS.py now they are as below: urlpatterns = patterns('', # Activation keys get matched by \w+ instead of the more specific # [a-fA-F0-9]{40} because a bad activation key should still get to the

Re: Registration

Thanks for the continued help. I have written the URLS.py now they are as below: urlpatterns = patterns('', # Activation keys get matched by \w+ instead of the more specific # [a-fA-F0-9]{40} because a bad activation key should still get to the

Re: Models Aliases

why don't you just access entry.author rather than entry.user? I think perhaps I'm not quite following your question. Dougal --- Dougal Matthews - @d0ugal http://www.dougalmatthews.com/ 2009/4/20 Bastien > > Hi, > > I searched the doc but couldn't find anything

inlineformsets version 1.0.2

We have recently upgraded django to 1.0.2 but this has subsequently broken some inlineformsets we have. I'm not sure if this is a django bug or if it is an error in our code, although the code pretty much reflects that in the SVN documentation. Any help on this issue would be much appreciated, in

auth.contrib silently catching TypeError. Bug?

Hi, The function authenticate in django/contrib/auth/__init__.py reads: 31def authenticate(**credentials): 32 """ 33 If the given credentials are valid, return a User object. 34 """ 35 for backend in get_backends(): 36 try: 37

Problem pickling querysets with memcached

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/174510/pickle_test.tar.gz I am having trouble pickling querysets. I don't have any problem when using local memory but I do when using memcached. I have a link to a test project that shows the problem. The settings file is using memcached on port 2559. I started

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

Yes, that's what I suspect. I've just tested the script through a python interpretor (stripped out the django only stuff first) and it definitely works. So I'm wondering if it might be a timing issue, that somehow on a refresh, perhaps due some kind of cacheing, the queryset is not being

Models Aliases

Hi, I searched the doc but couldn't find anything about this: I have a model for a blog entry that contains a foreign key to user and is named author. But that would be really convenient for me if the object would respond to the keyword 'user' as well: entry.user doesn't exist in the model but I

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

So what is your problem? update_cal_links() doesn't work after page refresh? On Apr 20, 1:05 pm, Tonne wrote: > > I didn't see how you return array to template context. > > Okay... well, it's actually a string that I finally send to the > template. It's a long story

Re: Django ACL Design Question

>def MustHavePermission(*required_perms): > def decorate(f): >def new_f(request, *args, **kwargs): > perms = UserCompanies.objects.filter( >user=request.user, >company=determine_company(request), >) > for perm in

Re: Registration

The templates are basically your HTML pages. You need to write your urls.py so that when a user visits a certain page, the view that corresponds to that url is just a render_to_response with a path to the HTML page. I can't really be bothered to explain it in detail but once you get the hang of

Re: euro djangocon talks

Probably best to ask @djangocon or @robertlofthouse on twitter. Cheers, Dougal --- Dougal Matthews - @d0ugal http://www.dougalmatthews.com/ 2009/4/20 Aljosa Mohorovic : > > anybody has any information about possible euro djangocon talks? > or any idea when will

euro djangocon talks

anybody has any information about possible euro djangocon talks? or any idea when will talks schedule be available? Aljosa Mohorovic --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

Split models.py to smaller parts.

Hi I'm looking for some general solution how to split models.py. Right now my models.py reached 1000 lines and that argues some how with good programing behaviour that I used use. I'm thinking about: myproject/ settings.py myapp/ models/ file.py directory.py

Re: Registration

I have a fair understanding of Python, and have been interested in Django for a while now, I have read the documentation and done some tutorials. Now I want to get my teeth stuck into a working project, As I said I want to set up a working registration application, and I am working through the

Re: Registration

> How should I go about moving the site onto the django platform? Learn Python, then Django. This implies reading lots of documentation and being really interested in the whole thing. Also, you should try to understand your needs before asking questions about how to address them. Do you need

Re: Registration

I am working through the following tutorial : http://www.mangoorange.com/2008/09/17/django-registration-tutorial/ A sample working document is provided, im just not sure how to get it working! I am unsure whether I have to provide the HTML myself to create the forms for the registration, as its

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

> I didn't see how you return array to template context. Okay... well, it's actually a string that I finally send to the template. It's a long story (sorry), but I use the array to build a string (i.e values from the array get embedded in HTML source). The place where the string is return to the

Re: Registration

On Apr 20, 9:50 am, soniiic wrote: > you can't just add django funcationality to an already-made HTML > site.  The whole site has to be moved on the django platform. Sorry for the lack of detail surrounding my problem. soniiic, thanks for the help. How should I go about

Re: Registration

you can't just add django funcationality to an already-made HTML site. The whole site has to be moved on the django platform. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

Tonne, I didn't see how you return array to template context. On Apr 20, 11:44 am, Tonne wrote: > Thanks > > > Can you show code of your tag and template where it used? > > Well, sure, but the tag is quite a big one, 150 lines long due to the > large array and string

Re: timesince template tag filter format

I end up using a custom template tag by 'realmac' found here: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/557/ that calculate the age from the birthdate and only returns the years. On Apr 18, 11:06 pm, Bastien wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the timesince filter in a template

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

Thanks > Can you show code of your tag and template where it used? Well, sure, but the tag is quite a big one, 150 lines long due to the large array and string concatenation going on. So I've shown here only what I assume to be the critical bits. (btw. the tag discussed here was the solution

Re: Using admin search

What i would like to know is, Is it possible to import django admin search , outside django admin something like django.contrib.admin.search may be thanks On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Anatoliy wrote: > > Hi, Silva. > > You can use >

Re: Using admin search

Hi, Silva. You can use http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#icontains for simple search: Entry.objects.get(headline__icontains=search_query) For more complex search you need separate search engine like Sphinx (http://www.sphinxsearch.com/). On Apr 20, 11:22 am,

Re: Simple_tag strange behaviour

Hello, Tonne. Can you show code of your tag and template where it used? On Apr 20, 10:50 am, Tonne wrote: > I have a simple_tag that receives a queryset, then updates an array > based on the queryset result (using a function), and finally it > returns the array to the

Using admin search

Hi All, I'm building simple search for website, i would like to know whether is possible to use admin search outside the django admin. If yes how can i do that. Any code examples or tutorials. Thank u, Waruna de Silva. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Simple_tag strange behaviour

I have a simple_tag that receives a queryset, then updates an array based on the queryset result (using a function), and finally it returns the array to the template context. It works beautifully the first time it is viewed with a browser. However, on subsequent "pageviews" the array is not

Re: ..... in templates

On 17/04/2009 11:26 PM, Christian Berg wrote: > Sorry if this sounds harsh, but it is useless to learn how to drive a > Truck, if you can't drive an car. Slightly tangential, but not true! My Grandfather learned to drive a truck in the army before learning to drive a car and failed his civilian

Re: how to organize favorites in template?

On 17/04/2009 12:53 PM, James wrote: > What I've done is store the keys of a users favorite videos in a dict, > and I try to determine if I should be allowing them to add or remove > this video from their favorites like this (truncated): > > {% for video in video_list %} > {% if