Re: Canceling save

OK... I'll manage to do this, then... Thanks a lot, Ankit! :-) Diogo On May 26, 2:39 am, Ankit wrote: > diogobaeder wrote: > > OK, but is it garanteed that I can delete the instance without raising > > an exception later, at the other methods, like "save" and

Re: Canceling save

diogobaeder wrote: > OK, but is it garanteed that I can delete the instance without raising > an exception later, at the other methods, like "save" and "post_save" > handler? For me, overriding the "save" method seems a bit too much > code to do a very simple thing... > > Thanks! > > Diogo > > On

Re: Canceling save

OK, but is it garanteed that I can delete the instance without raising an exception later, at the other methods, like "save" and "post_save" handler? For me, overriding the "save" method seems a bit too much code to do a very simple thing... Thanks! Diogo On May 26, 2:15 am, Ankit

Re: Canceling save

Diogo Baeder wrote: > Hi there, > > How can I can cancel a model instance "save()" call from inside a > "pre_save" handler? Do I really have to reimplement the "save" method in > the model class to accomplish it? > > Thanks! > > > > Hi there, > > How can I can cancel a model instance "save()"

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, ds99 wrote: > > Hi, > I am new to django.I have a requirement where in have to access tables > which are not created using django models, using django APIs. > > For eg: I already have tables "book_111" and "book_222" created in > sqlite

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On May 25, 1:07 pm, Andrási László (g) wrote: > Hi, > > We have a problem with an Oracle DB version 10g Release 10.2.0.1.0., Django > latest svn version and cx_Oracle 5.0.1-2 > > "select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter='NLS_CHARACTERSET';" > returns  

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2009/5/26 Alex Gaynor > >> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Sam Kuper >> wrote: >> >>> Suppose you were re-writing Facebook in Django. >>> >>> Would you handle

Re: When to use admin, and when not to.

2009/5/26 Alex Gaynor > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Sam Kuper > wrote: > >> Suppose you were re-writing Facebook in Django. >> >> Would you handle the complex profile and privacy settings pages by: >> >> A) exposing the relevant admin

Re: When to use admin, and when not to.

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > Suppose you were re-writing Facebook in Django. > > Would you handle the complex profile and privacy settings pages by: > > A) exposing the relevant admin pages to users, with careful auth to stop > users from being

When to use admin, and when not to.

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Thanks, Richard. I'll take a look at the links you sent and see if I can't work something out. In the meantime I've dropped back to a MultipleChoiceField. :( I'll post my findings. -R On May 25, 9:03 am, Richard wrote: > Hey Retro, I'm struggling with the same thing.

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:19 PM, tom wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to add some logging for debugging reasons in some views and > therefore I think about to add something like this in my views: > if settings.DEBUG: >logger.debug("some text") > > Would you recommend that?

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thanks, this was the problem V On May 25, 9:51 pm, Sam Chuparkoff wrote: > On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:42 -0700, Viktor wrote: > >         super(self.__class__, self).save(force_insert, force_update) > > This line at least is bad. You want: > >   super(AcceptedRoleAbstract,

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On May 25, 3:41 am, Andy wrote: > > But how do I stop user A from trying to edit the profile of user B? You don't let them. You control which profile you get from and save to the database, right? You look at the request.user object and only manipulate the data

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Django 1.1 is im pure bigfix and stabalization mode, to get it out asap, so they probably wont fix this issue for version 1.1 ~Jakob On May 25, 8:32 pm, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Alex Gaynor [2009.05.25.1945 +0200]: > > > Django does not

Re: abstract model with save method

On May 25, 9:19 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Viktor wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have the following abstract model, but it's child models fail saving > > with RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded > > When you get

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Hi Alex, I did exactly as you suggested with no luck. Any other suggestions? Kevin On May 25, 12:27 pm, Alex Koshelev wrote: > Hi, Kevin. > > You can try to set FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/directory' [1] settings > variable. Or setup your web server to provide valid SCRIPT_NAME

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:32 PM, notcourage wrote: > > @require_GET > def forbiddenView(request): >return HttpResponseForbidden() > So the login requirement isn't directly decorating the view. It's still there somewhere, based on your curl results. Given this view: from

Re: abstract model with save method

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 09:42 -0700, Viktor wrote: > super(self.__class__, self).save(force_insert, force_update) This line at least is bad. You want: super(AcceptedRoleAbstract, self).save(force_insert, force_update) Do post again as per Karen's request if you're still having trouble.

Re: Need help with URL rewrites

Hi, Kevin. You can try to set FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME = '/directory' [1] settings variable. Or setup your web server to provide valid SCRIPT_NAME environment variable. [1]: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#force-script-name --- Alex Koshelev On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:52 PM,

Re: oracle with us7ascii encode character lost

On May 25, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Andrási László (g) wrote: > US7ASCII > How could we convert the data without loosing letters? Hmmm... you can't. Your database is set to store US-ASCII characters only. Read on about Oracle "globalization":

Re: What, if any, Apache modules are required to implement Django authentication?

Sorry to have been too brief. My objective is to rely as completely as possible on the Django authentication methods. The only auth I need is 1) admin login for CMS managment 2) staff_member_required protections for certain pages (for example content preview pages that link out of the admin)

Re: abstract model with save method

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Viktor wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the following abstract model, but it's child models fail saving > with RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded > When you get that error, it comes with a stack trace. Does that not make it clear

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:43 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Look what I found! Check out the fifth point, labeled #1, top-most > annoyance with Python, in And? While I like it as much as the next guy, django-tagging, to take your example, is currently sitting at version

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Re: Iterate over MultipleChoiceList in Template

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Re: validation and the ORM layer

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:35 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > Hey folks, > > while playing around with the DB API last night, we discovered that > the ORM layer does not enforce content validation. > > Since the blank field option defaults to False, we expected to be > unable to

Re: de-facto tagging (was: When do snippets get into Django?)

also sprach Dougal Matthews [2009.05.23.1823 +0200]: > Fair enough. I don't really have an issue with the idea, could be > quite handy. > > I can just imagine them saying no :) so thought I would question > it as a move/idea. Look what I found! Check out the fifth point,

validation and the ORM layer

Hey folks, while playing around with the DB API last night, we discovered that the ORM layer does not enforce content validation. Since the blank field option defaults to False, we expected to be unable to save ORM objects with empty fields, but the DB API will let us do just that: class

Re: use of HttpResponseForbidden(), etc.

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Re: ifequal tag within nested for: html forms

On May 25, 2:29 pm, Pablo López wrote: >                         {% ifequal str(problemImpact.description) > (impact.0) %} This is not valid Django template syntax - I am surprised it works at all. You can't call functions with parameters within Django templates. -- DR.

Re: How to count objects for each date in django.views.generic.date_based.archive_index?

On Fri, 22 May 2009 18:28:57 -0700 (PDT) Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > On May 22, 8:16 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > > On May 22, 1:13 pm, Laurent Meunier wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi list! > > > > > I'm looking for a

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Hi, Are there any best practice regarding sessions in Django? Do yu normally use db based sessions? What about using hidden element for some scenarios, to maintain session? regards vishy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Help with some models inheritance and the use of default

On May 6, 3:56 pm, Felix wrote: > I have the next models: > > class Place(models.Model): >     currency = models.CharField(_('currency'), max_length=128, > blank=True, null=True) >     language = models.CharField(_('official language'), > max_length=128, blank=True,

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Bobby Roberts wrote: > > > For a case like this they probably result in roughly the same (if not > > identical) SQL. In general it's better to use Q objects since django > > doens't have to piece together 2 seperate cases and then munge them

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Re: efficiency question on filters

> For a case like this they probably result in roughly the same (if not > identical) SQL.  In general it's better to use Q objects since django > doens't have to piece together 2 seperate cases and then munge them > together, which can get difficult with complicated aliasing and probably can >

Re: efficiency question on filters

> If you take a look at Q objects they allow you to do just > that:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#complex-looku... > > Alex Hi Alex... that might take some reading up on and time is short at the moment. I just found the pipe delimiter in filters so:

Re: efficiency question on filters

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Bobby Roberts wrote: > >pagelist=[] > >pg=WebPage.objects.filter(body__icontains=delurl) >if pg.count()>0: >for id in pg: >pagelist.append(id.url_slug) > >pg2=WebPage.objects.filter(blurb__icontains=delurl)

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Re: Field xyz that is missing from the form

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:57 AM, adelaide_mike wrote: > > Hi > Be gentle with me. I am on my 7th day with Django. I have completed > the tutorial for 1.0.2 and have started building an app that has three > models in a hierarchy, Suburb, Street and Property. All are

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Chris DPS wrote: > > No. I get the same error. > I tried that on 3 versions of python with the same result. > Which means there is something fundamentally broken with Python's ability to access the network on this machine, and until that

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Hi, On 25.05.2009, at 10:59, Mike Ramirez wrote: > On Monday 25 May 2009 01:41:31 am Andy wrote: > >> But how do I stop user A from trying to edit the profile of user B? > > in urls.py > > url(r'profile/(P)/', 'up.views.profile', name='profile') you don't need the user name in the url for edit

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On May 25, 4:53 am, Jeff FW wrote: > Thanks for your response. Sorry I didn't respond earlier--been quite > busy. > > I don't know for certain that anyone's seeing a 500 response--I get an > e-mail from Django (traceback below) and an error in the Apache logs > (below).  

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On Monday 25 May 2009 01:41:31 am Andy wrote: > But how do I stop user A from trying to edit the profile of user B? in urls.py url(r'profile/(P)/', 'up.views.profile', name='profile') in views.py def edit(request, username): profile = UserProfile.objects.get(username__exact=username)

Re: Is there a version of @login_required that requires the user to log in as a specific user?

On May 24, 9:54 pm, Brian Neal wrote: > On May 24, 6:50 pm, Continuation wrote: > > > For example, I have a view edit_profile that edits a user's profile. > > Obviously I want to make sure that each user can edit his own profile > > only. > > > So

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