Django 1.2 release candidate available

Tonight we're proud to announce, finally, the first Django 1.2 release candidate. If all goes well, it will also be the *only* release candidate, and Django 1.2 final will release one week from today. For more information, consult: * The Django project weblog:

Re: Variable-length forms

Thanks. I'd totally misread what that page was about. Now I see it's basically what I want. Cheers. On May 4, 9:02 am, Shawn Milochik wrote: > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/forms/formsets/ > > That ought to help out. > > Shawn > > -- > You received this

Using the FormWizard with models

Hi guys, Another question about the FormWizard: is it possible to provide an existing instance of a model for the forms in the wizard? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Can I map authenticated users to specific databases via a database Router?

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Parker wrote: > I'm trying to port part of an existing application to Django.  In the > other application, each user has their data stored on separate > databases with identical schemas. > > For example, if we have users A, B and

Can I map authenticated users to specific databases via a database Router?

I'm trying to port part of an existing application to Django. In the other application, each user has their data stored on separate databases with identical schemas. For example, if we have users A, B and C, there are 3 databases ("DatabaseA", "DatabaseB", "DatabaseC") each having two tables:

Re: Make MPs answer to us

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Darren Mansell wrote: > > It's election day tomorrow. This is a great web site for lots of info about > what's really going on: > [http://www.38degrees.org.uk] This is a forum about using Django. The site you reference is in no way

set_cookie seemingly adding double quotes to cookie value

Hi, I'm pretty new to Django development. I have a page where I set some cookies based on responses to a POST. I'm finding that for certain values, set_cookie is resulting in the cookie value being enclosed in double quotes. This seems to happen for longer values with non-alphanumeric

Admin pre-save hooks

Hi, I've got two apps, called A and B. A has a model called X and B has model called Y. B hooks into the X's save-Method via the pre_save-Signal and throws an IntegrityError under dertain conditions. Everything like in: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/signals/#ref-signals This works

Password reset email sent several times

Hi All, I am using the django-registration app and when try to send a password reset email it sends 5 mails at once when its suppose to send it only once. Can anyone who has faced this problem or anyone who knows how to rectify this. I am a newbie in django so please go easy. Many Thanks -- You

Disabling (or find a workaround for) the comment security checks

Hello to all, I've just launched my new web-site powered by django and i'm very satisfied. I've implemented StaticGenerator to improve the performance and loading speed and I have to admit is brilliant. Unfortunately i've noticed the comment system doesn't work. This happens because the pages

Re: Template not displaying validation errors [solved]

Hi Karen! Thanks so much for your quick reply, I really appreciate it. :) > form.is_valid() is what annotates the existing form with error information > in the case where there are errrors. However, if form.is_valid() returns > False, the code here immediately overwrites the existing (now

Re: Template not displaying validation errors

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:04 PM, mhulse wrote: >if form.is_valid(): # All validation rules pass. > ># Q objects/pagination here... > >else: > >form = SearchForm() > form.is_valid() is what

Template not displaying validation errors

Hi, I have spent half the day googling and testing my code with no luck getting an error message to appear via my template. I am hoping ya'll could provide a little assistance. :) forms.py: class SearchForm(forms.Form): q = forms.CharField( max_length =

Re: Django ValidationError for DateField

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:33 PM, LeeRisq wrote: > This is mostly me just venting, but why is it if you run a query like > this: > > a = Model.objects.get(pk=1) > > Which has an attribute with an output of: > > a.date = None > > I pass that to a template, change some other

Re: Noob questions: Syntax, Python listserv, utility/helper methods?

> HTH, Very much so! Thanks so much Peter, I really appreciate your help. :) One last question: I have been working with django-schedule (just been doing the templating) and I noticed that the author of that code prepended underscores to all of his included files: ... _detail.html

Django ValidationError for DateField

This is mostly me just venting, but why is it if you run a query like this: a = Model.objects.get(pk=1) Which has an attribute with an output of: a.date = None I pass that to a template, change some other attribute and then attempt to pass it back in: date = request.GET['a.date'] b =

Re: QuerySet.distinct and aggregates

The Beta name field is actually an FK to another model, like this: Payment (Alpha) <- AppliedPayment (Gamma) -> Invoice (Beta) -> Location (Name) The actual call I had tried was Payment.objects.filter(appliedpayment__invoice__location=loc).distinct().aggregate(Sum('amount')) (where amount is

Re: Getting object representing the current user

On May 5, 9:30 pm, Paul wrote: > I have the following model (stripped of comments and __unicode__ for > brevity) which defines  a comment in my Django app (I'm not using the > comment module provided with Django for various reasons): > > class Comment(models.Model): >   comment

Getting object representing the current user

I have the following model (stripped of comments and __unicode__ for brevity) which defines a comment in my Django app (I'm not using the comment module provided with Django for various reasons): class Comment(models.Model): comment = models.TextField() added_by = models.ForeignKey(User)

Re: permissions at per specific object instance

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:09 PM, zweb wrote: > I need to build "permissions at per specific object instance" for my > app. > > Anyone has already done it ?  Also it says django developers are > already discussing it.. > > You can please refer me to the threads or blog posts

Re: permissions at per specific object instance

http://packages.python.org/django-authority/ or, an alternative: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-objectpermissions/ ---Peter Herndon On May 5, 2010, at 4:09 PM, zweb wrote: > "Permissions are set globally per type of object, not per specific > object instance. For example, it's possible to

permissions at per specific object instance

"Permissions are set globally per type of object, not per specific object instance. For example, it's possible to say "Mary may change news stories," but it's not currently possible to say "Mary may change news stories, but only the ones she created herself" or "Mary may only change news stories

Re: cascade deletion happens before pre_delete signal is sent?

On Apr 3, 6:23 pm, Tomasz Zieliński wrote: > I believe that this question was asked on this group a long time ago, > and the answer was that pre_delete signal was fired *before* actual > deletion occured, > but *after* objects were collected for deletion (i.e.

Re: QuerySet.distinct and aggregates

I'd try both and compare the processing time. What is the nature of the Beta.name equivalent in your actual model? If it is a simple field (e.g. INT) I doubt the overhead would be too bad. What might be tripping me up is having your Gamma being linked to your Alpha through an intermediate model.

Open source CMS (if based on Django better)

What would be you recommended CMS?. Could you please give some reasons (pro and cons)?. I'm investigating on these: - PyLucid v0.8.x stable, v0.9 alpha - FeinCMS v1.1.0 stable - django-simplecms - django-cms-2.0 2.0.2 stable , 2.1 alpha - google-sites By the way... I like how google-sites work,

How to override a method in auth backend.py

We store groups/ roles in another table due to legacy reasons. I need to override following method in auth backend, by my own method to get permissions from a custom role permission table. How can I do it? >>> override following method to get permissions from legacy table >>> role_permissions

Re: Syntax for displaying field values from parent model(s) in a template?

On May 5, 6:27 pm, Derek wrote: > I  have set of models, with relationships D -> C -> B -> A, where the > "->" indicates a "many to one" relationship. > > I have been able to create a filtered queryset on child model D, based > on a value in a parent model A, using the

Make MPs answer to us

It's election day tomorrow. This is a great web site for lots of info about what's really going on: [http://www.38degrees.org.uk] Darren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

I hate to chime in here but I recently started using Django, quite successfully. I'm also a consent-student. I fear that you are going to have a lot of trouble using Django (or anything like it) if you don't build some basics. To successfully use a product like Django, basic knowledge of at least

Syntax for displaying field values from parent model(s) in a template?

I have set of models, with relationships D -> C -> B -> A, where the "->" indicates a "many to one" relationship. I have been able to create a filtered queryset on child model D, based on a value in a parent model A, using the following syntax: my_query =

Altering object order in formsets with can_order

Hi, I'm having a hard time grasping the concept of the can_order argument, when creating formsets. Once objects are created and saved through the formset, is it possible to reorder them? Where does the order information get stored? I tried just adding can_order=True when creating the formset

Re: QuerySet.distinct and aggregates

> qs = Alpha.objects.filter(gamma__beta__name='Beta').distinct()) > id_list = [x.id for x in qs] > total = > Alpha.objects.filter(id__in=id_list).aggregate(total=models.Sum('id')).get('total') I'm sure this approach would work fine, however I feel like it might be a performance issue when the

Re: AdminField Rendering Question

Oh of course. Probably the one file I didn't look at. I think a subclass is in order. Thank you very much for the direction. Greg On May 5, 5:01 am, patrickk wrote: > there you > go:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/adm... > >

Re: django_audit 0.0.2

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Gustavo Narea wrote: > On May 5, 3:45 pm, Dj Gilcrease wrote: >> I also think Euan Goddard has already registered django-audit on pypi >> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-audit/0.9/) > > That's what I

Re: [ANN] django_nav 0.6

Now in PYPI http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django_nav/ -- 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

Re: How to alter the value of a field in admin pages and turn off-autoescaping

I wanted the date in this format: %A %d %B %Y %H:%M:%S I found a solution to point #2: format_data = re.compile(r'(?<=\d)\s(?=[A-Za-z])|(?<=[A-Za-z])\s(?=\d)', re.LOCALE | re.UNICODE) list_display = ('x',) def x(self, row): return mark_safe(format_data.sub('',

Re: django_audit 0.0.2

On May 5, 3:45 pm, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > I also think Euan Goddard has already registered django-audit on pypi > (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-audit/0.9/) That's what I meant, Euan and I work together :) - Gustavo. -- You received this message because you are

Re: django_audit 0.0.2

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Gustavo Narea wrote: > Hello, > > I would suggest you try to register "django_audit" on PYPI and see if > it allows you to do so. > > We had already registered the package"django-audit" (note the hyphen > instead of an underscore,

[ANN] django_nav 0.6

Code @ http://code.google.com/p/django-nav/ This is a bug fix release to make conditionals work again. Before 1.0 is ready to go I want to add the ability to dynamically generate nav manus either via a DB, Config file, Cache, etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Insert model data into every page (base.html)

See: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#template-context-processors On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Martin Tiršel wrote: > Hello, > > I need to insert some data from database onto every page, so I inserted them > into base.html. Until now, I was using

Re: change an object from parent to child

Here is a realistic example: I have a model Employee that is a subclass of User, the standard django authentication class, and a model called Supervisor that subclasses Employee. I have Bob, an instance of Employee, that I want to promote to Supervisor. So trying to move the Bob object to the

Re: django_audit 0.0.2

Hello, I would suggest you try to register "django_audit" on PYPI and see if it allows you to do so. We had already registered the package"django-audit" (note the hyphen instead of an underscore, which is exactly how we've always spelled it). I'm not sure if PYPI will let you register

Insert model data into every page (base.html)

Hello, I need to insert some data from database onto every page, so I inserted them into base.html. Until now, I was using generic views but it doesn't seems to be ideal for this case. Is there a way how to achieve this behaviour with generic views or I have to insert needed model into

Re: django_audit 0.0.2

On May 4, 11:21 am, Dj Gilcrease wrote: > Google code wont let me change the project name without deleting and > recreating the project so I just added a note to the top That is quite annoying. I hope you can find a good solution to that problem. > "This is a fairly

Re: Empty foreign keys in forms after Apache/PostgreSQL reset

On May 5, 7:54 am, Tom Evans wrote: > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Xanthus wrote: > > Hi all. I will try do my best to explain my setup and the sequence of > > actions triggering the issue: > > > 1. Machine starts and all is fine. > > 2. We do the

Re: QuerySet.distinct and aggregates

> In [29]: > Alpha.objects.filter(gamma__beta__name='Beta').values('id').aggregate(model > s.Sum('id')) > Out[29]: {} > > In [30]: > Alpha.objects.filter(gamma__beta__name='Beta').values('name').aggregate(mod > els.Sum('id')) > Out[30]: {} That's odd -- I would have expected #29 to work (though

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

On May 5, 1:05 pm, Etienne Python wrote: > Well actually, I copied all of the data (including the database), not only > the code. But indeed, like you say, the problem is not solved yet just by > installing mysql. > > So I followed the alternative solution you suggested.

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

Well actually, I copied all of the data (including the database), not only the code. But indeed, like you say, the problem is not solved yet just by installing mysql. So I followed the alternative solution you suggested. Now I get another error actually: when I run ./manage.py syncdb like you

Re: Django encoding

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 6:17 AM, Lukáš wrote: > Hey, > > I have a little problem with django encoding. I have got everything in > the DB set as utf8. Now when I get them from db with django, the > encoding gets broken. For some reason django "thinks" (maybe knows) > the data

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

ok, I have done that now, but I'm affraid I still get the same result... :-( On May 5, 1:26 pm, "ge...@aquarianhouse.com" wrote: > install MySQLdb :) > > On May 5, 1:23 pm, Etienne Python wrote: > > > > > > > On May 5, 12:42 pm, Daniel Roseman

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

On May 5, 12:23 pm, Etienne Python wrote: > > File "c:\python26\lib\site-packages\django\db\backends\mysql\base.py", > line 13, in >    raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e) > django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Error loading

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

install MySQLdb :) On May 5, 1:23 pm, Etienne Python wrote: > On May 5, 12:42 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > > > > On May 5, 11:06 am, Etienne Python wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I'm a real beginner at both Django and

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

On May 5, 12:42 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On May 5, 11:06 am, Etienne Python wrote: > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > I'm a real beginner at both Django and Python, so excuse me if my > > question looks silly to you. > > > A friend of mine did me a

Re: Admin custom filters

sorry to interrupt with no solution, but I have a similar problem: I wnat to allow choosing mutiple choises : year = 2003 OR year = 2007 or, year = 2003 AND year = 2007. (something like checkbox) I guess one can implement the filter from scratch, but I think there is might be a way to add this

Re: AdminField Rendering Question

there you go: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/admin/widgets.py#L88 unfortunately, it´s all hardcoded. if you need to customize the widget, you may want to write your own and subclass the given one. hope that answers your question. regards, patrick On 5 Mai,

Django encoding

Hey, I have a little problem with django encoding. I have got everything in the DB set as utf8. Now when I get them from db with django, the encoding gets broken. For some reason django "thinks" (maybe knows) the data is latin1, which wouldnt be a problem if I would tell him to use latin1, which

Re: Empty foreign keys in forms after Apache/PostgreSQL reset

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Xanthus wrote: > Hi all. I will try do my best to explain my setup and the sequence of > actions triggering the issue: > > 1. Machine starts and all is fine. > 2. We do the following operations (through and automated script): > a. stop Apache >

How to alter the value of a field in admin pages and turn off-autoescaping

1st question) I am trying to change the way some of DateTimeField are displayed in the change_list page of the admin site (django 1.2 svn): how to do it? Not knowing which method to define or override in the ModelAdmin class, I opted for a different solution: I added a string in the list_display

Re: How to adapt some code provided by friend

On May 5, 11:06 am, Etienne Python wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm a real beginner at both Django and Python, so excuse me if my > question looks silly to you. > > A friend of mine did me a huge favour by coding a form for me. > However, I would like to modify a couple of

How to adapt some code provided by friend

Hey all, I'm a real beginner at both Django and Python, so excuse me if my question looks silly to you. A friend of mine did me a huge favour by coding a form for me. However, I would like to modify a couple of details in the page. I have copied the code and the folders linked to the website to

Managing JS and CSS. Performance by grouping external files

Thinking in performance (reduce HTTP request) I'm working on the idea that that each page includes just one JS and one CSS with the required modules in inside. ¿Do you know any tool to achieve this? ¿How do you recommend to manage external JS and CSS? I read some about pyjamas but it seem to be

Re: Working out some custom API stuff

On May 5, 4:46 am, Nick wrote: > Here's the deal. I'm working on a custom API for moving information > about. I am stuck at a point in creating my view. > It might be best just to get into the details. > > Here is the model: > > class entry(models.Model): >     question =

Re: SCORM(Sharable Content Object Reference Model) Compliant for Django?

Thanks Skylar. django-scorm-rest-rte has really less documentation for studying. Maybe, SCORM is not the hot technology for LMS. Does anyone use any else LMS technology with Django in the world? I think LMS is really a hot topic in the future, and even now. If there is any possibility to ship LMS

Django 1.2 and legacy database

Hello, I'm seriously considering django 1.2 for a project which uses several databases. However, I still got an issue with django 1.2 about legacy database. I do have many to many relation that goes throught and table without primary key. I don't want to use an intermediate model since it adds

Re: TypeError with a Decimal Field

Yep, see I knew I was doing something simple wrong. The real irony is, returning just the grade was a placeholder till I came up with a better idea of exactly what I wanted there Thank you! On May 4, 9:40 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On May 4, 1:15 pm, JonathanB