South trunk with Django trunk? (wierd error)

Howdy, Just started a new project with Django trunk (have been using Django 1.1 lately, so please bare with me). After I got a basic setup going I installed the latest release of south, but that bombed spectacularly with database errors in settings.py. Oh, right - that multi-database switch! I

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM, mdipierro wrote: > Sorry Russ, > > I did not say nor implied that any of the points above were > distinctive or unique. I just tried to clarify some issues raised by > other users here. No problems - I'm not trying to accuse you of

Re: Making a User Registration form

That doesn't look like it helps a whole lot actually. I don't see where I can create a registration form including my custom profile model. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Making a User Registration form

http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-registration/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Making a User Registration form

Hi guys, What's the easiest way to make a user registration form, based on my own Profile model and the built-in user model? Writing my own form from scratch is looking like the most painless but time-consuming way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Proxy model ContentType question

As an update: Since you can actually assign a generic relation in the admin app to a proxy model object, when using a generic relation, the proxy objects aren't returned because the lookup is using get_for_model which returns an instance of the base class. (I only figured this out after having

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

On Feb 19, 2:14 pm, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > On 19 fév, 15:38, Wiiboy wrote: > > > And the explicit vs. implicit imports: Personally, I love the fact > > that the request object is available all over the place, including > > models, and

Re: what is the name of your super class?

How about: >>> class MySuperClass: pass ... >>> class MySubClass(MySuperClass): pass ... >>> c = MySubClass >>> >>> c.__bases__[0].__name__ 'MySuperClass' >>> What I always ask develoeprs hwo join my team is "Please read the Language Reference!" Its a great read, I'm not joking and your answer

Re: Any CRM based on django?

On Feb 19, 8:58 pm, Massimiliano della Rovere wrote: > At work we are planning move from Sugar CRM PRO to something else > free. I'd love moving to something python based, but it seems the only > free and reliable solution is VTiger 5 written in php. > > Does

Re: Generate random data for Django models

On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > So I have a nice little database now stocked with items and provinces. > I now want to generate random samurai and populate the database with > them. I can think of two ways to do this: > > 1) Through the admin interface. But how do I install

Re: what is the name of your super class?

This is an old document, but is useful for understanding class structure in python: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/ I think you might want the subclass.__class__ method. On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Joel Stransky wrote: > Bit of a python

Generate random data for Django models

So I have a nice little database now stocked with items and provinces. I now want to generate random samurai and populate the database with them. I can think of two ways to do this: 1) Through the admin interface. But how do I install a button that will add a random samurai? Adding samurai is a

what is the name of your super class?

Bit of a python question here. Say I have a class named MySuperClass and an extension of that class called MySubClass. When referring to MySubClass (the class, not an instance of it), how would I retrieve the class name of its super class. For instance if I had: c = MySubClass I'd like to know

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Thanks again for the help, and thank you very much for the links! I have been looking for examples of django rpgs with little success. Once I get something functional I plan to contribute to the open-source community as well. Cheers. -Tim On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Tim Shaffer

Re: Providing flatpages initial data

Okay, I spent some more time with the flatpage and it works great. I just needed to understand the syntax a little better. I also thought that I needed to include a lot of cruft at the beginning of the dumpdata file that basically amounted to logs and session_ids. Taking them out worked fine. I

TypeError at /avatar/change/ function takes at most 9 arguments (11 given)

ok, this is the error TypeError at /avatar/change/ function takes at most 9 arguments (11 given) ive got a project which is a register of cars. ive got it nearly finished and realised that i need to add a pub_date field. so ive recreated my DB, resynced it after adding the field to the model.

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

You should be able to list all of a samurai's items by doing the following: samurai = Samurai.objects.get(pk=1) for inv in samurai.inventory_set.all(): print inv.item.name samurai.inventory_set returns a QuerySet the same way that Inventory.objects returns a QuerySet, but it only returns

Re: Passenger 57 - a Django query problem

On 18 fév, 12:16, Emily Rodgers wrote: (snip) > I think he stopped helping when he started using phrases like 'crystal > ball' and 'wild-guess programming'. They are hostile responses. > Emily, if you manage to stick to your wishfull words for the next ten

Re: Passenger 57 - a Django query problem

On 18 fév, 12:03, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > Apologies for my handling of this matter earlier. It was not the Python way > :) > > Bruno, feel welcome here. > Ok, I'm back then !-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

On 19 fév, 10:35, NoviceSortOf wrote: (snip) > In my opinion frameworks should be considered on a project by project > basis Well, if you have enough time to learn and master a dozen or more different frameworks, that might be a sensible policy. As far as I'm

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

On 19 fév, 15:38, Wiiboy wrote: > And the explicit vs. implicit imports: Personally, I love the fact > that the request object is available all over the place, including > models, and that I don't have to do any importing. As far as I'm concerned, it's a definitive No-No.

Re: Passing parameters from child models

On 19 fév, 18:00, ALJ wrote: > I want to set a value in a parent model based on the child class. childs inherit parents attributes, so you don't have to "set a value" (I assume you meant : "set an attribute's value") "in the parent model" - just set it in the child. >

Re: CI for Django projects

Hi, you could try TeamCity. I've written some short instructions (in german) here: http://www.jan0sch.de/wissen/teamcity-django-python-tests You'll need an extension for python, a custom test runner and the appropriate build configuration for TeamCity. We are using this for some months now and it

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Hi Tim, Thanks for the concrete examples. I actually had exactly what you had coded last night, but I got rid of it because having multiple inventories for a single samurai seemed counter-intuitive to me. But it sounds like it's the best way to get the granularity I want. Going back to that

Re: Database relations concepts

No worries, I really appreciate you taking the time to explain the reason for it. I am looking at the CommaSeparatedIntegerField (CSIF) seriously for the exits. It seems straightforward to just use the province_id from the exit provinces as the values in the CSIF, and then it's easy to pull the

Re: Providing flatpages initial data

I started playing with this last night and got about as far as you mentioned here. What I want to be able to do, though, is write a python script that writes an authentic json flatpage that I can import into the database. I have a large textfile full of names, items, and province information (for

Re: what if I need to use two objects to get a third object in my templates?

Thanks, Roseman. I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to custom filters or tags, because it obfuscates template code that should be really simple. Also, I don't think filters can be applied to this slightly modified example: {% for person in people %} {% for col in columns %}

Re: CI for Django projects

I have used a Continous Integration framework form TeamCity to auto build and test our Delphi based product. Though it is not building and testing Django, the TeamCity executable eventually calls python, which controls every thing from that point on. With python, I am sure you can auto build and

CI for Django projects

Hey, Do you know a Continuous Integration tool that supports Django projects? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

CAS sounds very interesting as a SSO. I may give that a try, as well as maybe just perform some unit tests just to make sure I know what is going on under the hood. Thank you all for your much needed input. Greg On Feb 19, 10:32 am, Phlip wrote: > geraldcor wrote: > > and

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

geraldcor wrote: > and all will be good - I think. Does that sound reasonable? Been there done that. But... >     using the given algorithm ('md5', 'sha1' or 'crypt'). ^ Pick the right one wisely! I would start with unit tests that

Providing flatpages initial data

Hi all, I just came across a need to provide initial data for flatpages. I have read before that people have asked to do this. It is easier than thought :) 1. Create your content via the admin interface 2. Run 'python manage.py dumpdata flatpages > data.json' 3. When you want to provide the

Passing parameters from child models

I want to set a value in a parent model based on the child class. So, in this case, I would set the ExtendedUser.usertype depending on whether its "Teacher" or "Student". I tried looking at using '%(class)s' to get the class name, but that didn't work. Or can you explicitly pass values from the

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

I'd rather stay out and limit myself to rectify incorrect statements if any. For example I'll say the documentation is not new. It has been there for 2 years, it's just that was not free and cost $12. It is actually old now. It still does not describe lots of new functionality and we are trying to

Re: Database relations concepts

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > What does it mean to check about index selectivity? Sorry, my knowledge of > databases is mostly as a user. But I am learning a lot this week. I intentionally left it out, since i'm not the best teacher, you might

Ajax request, json object, fields with instance of inherits class converted in regular string

Hello all, I have a really big problem with ForeignKey Models. I will try to emplain my problem: I have a class like this: class Day(models.Model): name= models.CharField(_('Name'), max_length=32, unique=True) description = models.TextField(_('Description'),

Re: inlineformset_factory widgets

OK, got it: Rather than specifying meta/widgets, each form field has to be specified in the ModelForm in forms.py, thus: class CompanyContactForm(ModelForm): contact_name = forms.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput(attrs={'size': '20'})) #Field name as in model #...etc class Meta:

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

I've noticed that there have been a lot of things in common: Web2py _didn't_ have very good docs, at least relative to Django's (which are spectacular), but now that the Web2py book is available online, that issue is kind of moot. Admin -- Web2py has two different Admins, one which doesn't have a

Re: Please help me, retrieving data from Django to JS

It wouldn't really be a Django question, since you'd probably just do this in JS itself. alert(data[0].name + ' X: ' + data[0].x + ', Y: ' + data[0].y); alert(data[1].name + ' X: ' + data[1].x + ', Y: ' + data[1].y); If you're keen on jQuery, you could loop through the data object pretty easily

Re: anonymous user

i can't understand you well but if you enable auth system and session system you already have anonymous user , for example you can find out the current user in a view with request.user . if you did not log in then user must be anonymous -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

anonymous user

How can I just enable anonymous user in Django? I mean, what is the minimum I should do to be logged in as anonymous first time I go to my site? Regards, Arshavski Alexnder. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Basically what you are trying to do is called a many-to-many relationship with an intermediary table. If it was a regular many-to-many relationship, you could just do ManyToManyField(Item) on the samurai model, and there would be a table with a foreign key to item, and a foreign key to samurai,

Re: Passenger 57 - a Django query problem

I hope that we can all learn somehow from the incident. When i reacted the way i did, i was picking up subtle undertones of aggression which i thought were undue. I have since spoke to Bruno and diffused the situation amicably. I would agree with what Emily says, and the things I take away from

Re: Best way to access 'request' in pre_save

On 19 February 2010 10:27, Paul Stone wrote: > > > That's fine for one or two models. But what if I want to do this for a > > > number of models, in every view? What's the best way to do that > > > without code repetition? > > > > Using a ModelForm? > > > >

Re: Database relations concepts

Thanks for reasoning :) Regards, Viet. David De La Harpe Golden wrote: On 19/02/10 08:32, Le Quoc Viet wrote: Hi Tim, Thanks for reply. I mean if I want Samurai to be out of all rooms? ForeignKey disallows Null. minor point - ForeignKey(null=True, blank=True) will merrily allow null if

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

Sorry Russ, I did not say nor implied that any of the points above were distinctive or unique. I just tried to clarify some issues raised by other users here. I was careful to only make comparison that were favorable to Django (the admin for example). I realize I am a guest here. I do not think

Re: Database relations concepts

On 19/02/10 08:32, Le Quoc Viet wrote: Hi Tim, Thanks for reply. I mean if I want Samurai to be out of all rooms? ForeignKey disallows Null. minor point - ForeignKey(null=True, blank=True) will merrily allow null if your database allows nullable foreign keys at all (chances are it does).

Re: cant see data with a Generic View

I didn't change anything ... but today is working. Go figure :) Thanks for all your help! On 18 fev, 17:57, gustavo wrote: > Robin, > > I tried, but it didnt work... > > On 18 fev, 17:20, robin nanola wrote: > > > i solved it, it was just an

Re: Managing different user types

Hi Hanne, Thanks for this and apologies for not looking at this sooner. I thought the thread was gone dead. I also found this thread which might be of use to some other numpties out there.

Re: Multiple user types

... here's a solution I found really useful. It uses a base profile with inheritance. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1796556/django-multi-table-inheritance-vs-specifying-explicit-onetoone-relationship-in-mo ALJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Please help me, retrieving data from Django to JS

Hello everybody, I am using Dajaxice to get my data from DB to my template. function getParking_callBack(data){ if(data!='DAJAXICE_EXCEPTION'){ return data; } else{

Re: Database relations concepts

It doesn't make sense for the Samurai to be out of all rooms. If it's because he is dead you should create a room for that, such as "Graveyard" or something. However, I think it would work to include "blank = True" in the declaration. This would allow the field to have a null value. -Tim On

Re: Best way to access 'request' in pre_save

> > That's fine for one or two models. But what if I want to do this for a > > number of models, in every view? What's the best way to do that > > without code repetition? > > Using a ModelForm? > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/forms/modelforms/ Ok, I think I understand now.

Re: Any CRM based on django?

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but just searching for django-crm on google got me http://code.google.com/p/django-crm/ Massimiliano della Rovere wrote: At work we are planning move from Sugar CRM PRO to something else free. I'd love moving to something python based, but it seems

Re: special characters in urls

On Friday 19 February 2010 11:25:41 andreas schmid wrote: > ve to deal with special characters in urls? > for example if i would have programming languages like C, C++ or C# if i > use SlugField the characters are escaped a > Hi Andreas, I'd set slugs manually as "c", "cpp" and "c-sharp"

Re: Any CRM based on django?

El 19/02/10 06:58, Massimiliano della Rovere escribió: > Does anybody here know any CRM based on django? http://tinyurl.com/ygcl4fw -- Gonzalo Delgado -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Any CRM based on django?

At work we are planning move from Sugar CRM PRO to something else free. I'd love moving to something python based, but it seems the only free and reliable solution is VTiger 5 written in php. Does anybody here know any CRM based on django? -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Database relations concepts

Hi Tim, Thanks for reply. I mean if I want Samurai to be out of all rooms? ForeignKey disallows Null. Should I do like this: Create a default dummy Room and assign it by default? Viet. Timothy Kinney wrote: I don't understand your question. The Samurai requires one room by the declaration:

Re: Use django auth system with ruby on rails

On Feb 19, 2:15 am, geraldcor wrote: > All of your comments prompted me to start reverse engineering what > django does and I came across the check_password method which just > separates the algorithm, salt and hash and then sends it to the > following method to compare the

ANN: django-multilingual-ng

Since the official django-multilingual [1] does not support Django 1.2 (and has some other annoying things in my opinion), I decided to create a new project based off django-multilingual which works in 1.2 and has some other improvements. This project is called django-multilingual-ng, it's on

Re: Best way to access 'request' in pre_save

On 19 February 2010 09:28, Paul Stone wrote: > > > Presumably you have a view which is updating this object. The view has > > access to the HttpRequest. Therefore, the easy, simple, clean and > > elegant way is... to have the view set the value of that field. So do > > that

Re: ANN: Djangout -- Buildout recipes for Django

Hi. It's a build tool for Python: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build_automation http://www.buildout.org/ - Gustavo. On Feb 18, 7:07 pm, Timothy Kinney wrote: > Sorry for the noob question, but what is a Buildout recipe? > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Gustavo

Re: User permissions to see a view

I am restricting access to particular pages. The reports page doesn't have a particular model. It's going to have some 'flat' content and links to lots of other reports. So that is why I was confused. There is no underlying data model for that page. I was going to query rebus's suggestion. I

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

As a newbie of sorts I started by trying out both Web2Py and Django at the same time. I found Web2Py to somehow be more elegant, and in fact liked the coding style in the source better that what I found in Django, or can say at least I preferred the structure and format of the code I saw. The

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

As a newbie of sorts I started by trying out both Web2Py and Django at the same time. I found Web2Py to somehow be more elegant, and in fact liked the coding style in the source better that what I found in Django, or can say at least I preferred the structure and format of the code I saw. The

Re: Best way to access 'request' in pre_save

> Presumably you have a view which is updating this object. The view has > access to the HttpRequest. Therefore, the easy, simple, clean and > elegant way is... to have the view set the value of that field. So do > that and ignore anyone who tells you otherwise -- > magically/secretly/implicitly

special characters in urls

how do i have to deal with special characters in urls? for example if i would have programming languages like C, C++ or C# if i use SlugField the characters are escaped and each of the 3 slugs becomes C. what is the way to go? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

Hi, On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Regarding licensing:  I have no desire to get into a "whose license is > better" flamewar. You writes the code, you picks the license. The way I see it, Massimo was just addressing the point about Django

Re: Admin screen pluralizing models inappropriately and database relations question

Okay, I'm still lacking understanding on the inventory part. Here's what I have so far: class Inventory(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True, verbose_name="inventory") samurai_id = models.ForeignKey('Samurai') item_id = models.ManyToManyField(Item) condition =

Re: Database relations concepts

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: > This is a fabulous response, Peter. Thank you very much for making this so > clear. The samurai_set is a revelation for me as well. I see now that I > should look more carefully at the methods available for the

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:37 PM, mdipierro wrote: > I apologize for intruding and try not to be partisan. I will not list > pros and cons since this is not the place for me to do so. > I would just like to make clarifications about things being said: And I would like

Re: Database relations concepts

I don't understand your question. The Samurai requires one room by the declaration: class Samurai(models.Model): ... room = models.ForeignKey("Room") ... Since it is a ForeignKey, it can only accept one value and the value cannot be None. Therefore, all samurai will always be in only one room at

Re: what if I need to use two objects to get a third object in my templates?

On Feb 19, 8:04 am, Daniel Wong wrote: > Seems like there's no good way to do this, because you can't call > methods that take > 0 arguments. > > Here's an example of the sort of thing I'm trying to do. Imagine > you're trying to create a spreadsheet like view: > > {% for

Re: admin calender not showing for datefields

Ok thanks, indeed the javascript files were missing, i think i deleted the whole javascript folder by mistake when moving. regards, Richard On Feb 19, 2:34 am, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 19 Feb 2010 2:01:50 am mendes.rich...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Does anyone know

what if I need to use two objects to get a third object in my templates?

Seems like there's no good way to do this, because you can't call methods that take > 0 arguments. Here's an example of the sort of thing I'm trying to do. Imagine you're trying to create a spreadsheet like view: {% for person in people %} {% for col in columns %} {{ person.get(col) }}

Re: Database relations concepts

Thanks for explanation. What if Samurai can be outside all Rooms and can be at most at 1 Room at a time? Regards, Viet. Peter Herndon wrote: On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Timothy Kinney wrote: Here's the system I'm currently using that doesn't work too well... Samurai (id, name) Room

Re: Model for debt, credit and balance

Presumably you'll eventually have enough transactions that you'll want to start paging them. At that point, it would change how you would arrive at the balance. If a user is looking at page 30, you shouldn't need to retrieve the transactions from pages 1-29. Eventually, you may want to consider

Re: anybody tried web2py and gone back to Django?

I apologize for intruding and try not to be partisan. I will not list pros and cons since this is not the place for me to do so. I would just like to make clarifications about things being said: 1) web2py comes with a web based IDE but you do not have to use it. You can disabled it or can even