Using request.GET and having issues

I have the following view set up: def concord(request): searchterm = request.GET['q'] ... more stuff ... return render_to_response('concord.html', locals()) With URL "http://mysite.com/concord/?q=برشه;, and template code Your search for {{ searchterm }} returned {{ results }}

Re: Passing variables to the template... I've having logic problems

Yes, that worked. Thank you! Of course, now that I fixed that, I have to deal with the other problem that I was avoiding... But I'll post that in a different question. :-) Thanks again, Pedro. On Apr 15, 9:35 pm, Pedro Kroger wrote: > You can try something like: > >

Re: pagination peculiarities...

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Markus T. wrote: > > I have a strange effect using pagination. > > I have a model with events that have a date, time, title, description > field and so on. I display the events using pagination. In the model's > Meta class I tell Django

Put an "inline" at the top of admin form instead of bottom?

I'm using the admin functionality for most of my needs (a nice CRUD DB frontend, not a user-facing website). Is there a best way to get one of my inline models presented at the top of the form instead of the bottom? I would greatly prefer not to have to specify all of the fields (via

Re: How to unit test if user has access to page

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Pedro Kroger wrote: > result = self.client.post('/dashboard/') > > But I don't know how to test if the result is the dashboard or the > login page. Could you guys point me in the right direction? from the docs

How to unit test if user has access to page

Hi, I writing some unit tests and I'd like to test if an unlogged user has access to the main dashboard page. In my application, if the user is logged it will go to the dashboard, if it isn't, it will go to the login page. I know how to get to the webpage: result =

Re: Passing variables to the template... I've having logic problems

You can try something like: def my_view(request): ... context = [] for offset in offsets: before = ' '.join(tokens[offset-5:offset]) word = tokens[offset] after = ' '.join(tokens[offset+1:offset+5]) context.append(before, word, after) ...

'Context' object has no attribute 'render_context'

I'm fairly new to django and now I'm stuck on this error... 'Context' object has no attribute 'render_context' searching around has told me that render_context did not exist pre django 1.2 but I have django 1.2.4 installed. Here is some of my stack trace... AttributeError at /hsws/ 'Context'

Passing variables to the template... I've having logic problems

I'm trying to make a concordance (ie, a list of a certain searchterm, including its surrounding context) and I can get it to work in the interpreter, but I'm having problems figuring out how to make it a list that I can pass it to the template. This is what works in the interpreter (tokens is a

Re: base.html (extended by others) has to be in project (not app) root?

On Friday, April 15, 2011 4:21:56 PM UTC-4, Brian Neal wrote: > > You didn't post how you loaded the template in your view function. In > particular, what path string you used. > Ah. The missing piece to bring order to all of this confusion on my part. I was using "myapp/index.html", per

Re: base.html (extended by others) has to be in project (not app) root?

On Apr 15, 2:23 pm, Jeff Blaine wrote: > Thank you all.  I will digest the replies when I have the time to properly > focus back on the issue (it's obviously small, since I have a workaround in > place by shoving base.html into the project root). > > It still, regardless of

Re: base.html (extended by others) has to be in project (not app) root?

Thank you all. I will digest the replies when I have the time to properly focus back on the issue (it's obviously small, since I have a workaround in place by shoving base.html into the project root). It still, regardless of solutions, even in light of the words shared in this thread (which

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

Thank you to everyone answering - I will look into the Firebug approach the next time. But now I am 99.9% certain that > In an item is not in the original choices then it's invalid. This is the problem. In the cases where things failed the choice eventually sent from the client was not in the

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

Can you show us the field declaration in your form -- specifically the value of 'choices'? In an item is not in the original choices then it's invalid. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

I suggest you to use firefox + firebug extension to see what exactly your form is sending to server in POST (or GET) request via firebug's "Console" tab. If data in request is correct every time (change both selectors, change oly one of them, without changes) -- then problem somewhere in your

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

I suggest you to use firefox + firebug extension to see what exactly your form is sending to server in POST (or GET) request via firebug's "Console" tab. If data in request is correct every time (change both selectors, change oly one of them, without changes) -- then problem somewhere in your

New python, django user... having issues

Hi there. I'm trying to install Django on my computer, but I'm having problems. Any help would be really, really appreciated. My first attempt was with the BitNami Django Stack. It seemed to have installed, but I couldn't verify it through 'import django' on Idle. I played with it a few times,

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

Thank you for answering: On Apr 15, 8:47 pm, Shawn Milochik wrote: > Two things: > >     1. Does your form use a prefix? I don't really what you mean with prefix? > >     2. Please post a relevant excerpt of your request.POST data. (I mangled things a bit up in the

Re: Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

Two things: 1. Does your form use a prefix? 2. Please post a relevant excerpt of your request.POST data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To

pagination peculiarities...

Hi everybody, I have a strange effect using pagination. I have a model with events that have a date, time, title, description field and so on. I display the events using pagination. In the model's Meta class I tell Django to order by date. I create a queryset like this: events =

Re: Please Help a django Beginner!

Thank you for the response. Is there any documentation / books out there that you would recommend reading to get acquainted with django in that perspective? On Apr 15, 10:58 am, Jirka Vejrazka wrote: > I use Djano ORM for a lot of my backend processing where no web is >

Form with two select boxes + javascript - selection gets destroyed???

Hello; I have a problem with a Django using JavaScript which I really don't understand. It must be said that this is my first time using JavaScript to beef up my forms - that might be source of the problem. The form presents the user with two drop down selectors and a submit button like:

Re: change extension of uploaded image

My solution is: def save( self ): if self.image1: original = Image.open( self.image1 ) if original.mode not in ('L', 'RGB'): original = original.convert('RGB') cp_image = original.copy() cp_image_handle = StringIO() cp_image.save( cp_image_handle,

change extension of uploaded image

Hi, I want to change the filetype of any uploaded image to JPG. What is the most efficient way for this? I think i surely do this before save(). Any ideas? Thanks, -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send

Re: base.html (extended by others) has to be in project (not app) root?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Yuka Poppe wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > I think Gladys is correct, the reason for your code finding the index > template, is because its probably looking for 'myapp/index.html' > instead of just 'index.html' > > Im not really sure if you're also

Can a OneToOne field be used to generate the value of a SlugField in the same model?

Hi, I have a model which defines a blogger property, which is a OneToOne field on the django.contrib.auth.models.User model as follows: class BlogUser(models.Model): blogger = models.OneToOneField('auth.User', related_name='blogger') url = models.SlugField(max_length=125, unique=True,

Re: Please Help a django Beginner!

I use Djano ORM for a lot of my backend processing where no web is involved. Just make sure that DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is defined in your environment and you can use pretty much any part of Django in your own code/scrits/whatever. HTH Jirka On 15/04/2011, Aviv Giladi

Please Help a django Beginner!

Hey guys, I am an experienced Python developer starting to work on web service backend system. The system feeds data (constantly) from the web to a MySQL database. This data is later displayed by a frontend side (there is no connection between the frontend and the backend). The backend system

Re: remove items from queryset for nested regrouping

Ok its solved now, I updated my nested regroup with the following {% regroup dict by col_mapper as column_gr %} {% for column in column_gr %} {{ column.grouper }} {% with column.list as groupr %} {% regroup groupr by

ie9 and localhost hangs

This week I installed the latest windows 7 microsoft updates. Also since a few days, IE9 hangs when I try to connect to http://127.0.0.1:8000 I do not see any movement on the Django development server DOS-screen. Firefox4 is OK, and connecting to Opera11 at the same time: no problem. But IE9

Re: SQL Server

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Jirka Vejrazka wrote: >  I use exactly the same setup. Look up the "django-odbc" package. > This will be quite easy to use and setup, but there are some > unresolved bugs in that package related to multi-db support. Most of > them have

Re: SQL Server

Mike, I use exactly the same setup. Look up the "django-odbc" package. This will be quite easy to use and setup, but there are some unresolved bugs in that package related to multi-db support. Most of them have patches attached to their tickets. Cheers Jirka On 15/04/2011, Mike Kenny

SQL Server

Hi, I am trying to use a django application developed on Linux with MySQL on a Windows box with SQL Server. I have downloaded pyodbc and set my ENGINE to sql_server.pyodbc (and tried just pyodbc as I was able to import this into python but not sql_server). Both result in an error message listing

Re: satchmo currency

First off, you'll probably get better responses on the Satchmo list. Secondly, changing languages doesn't change currency symbols, which should make sense. 1 Euro is not equal to 1 Dollar. If we were to change symbols, we'd also need to do a currency conversion. It's not impossible by any means

Re: Stackoverflow kind of Answer/commenting app in Django

Thanks a lot for that suggestion. On Apr 15, 2011 8:52 AM, "Daniel Hilton" wrote: > On 15 April 2011 13:01, roberto wrote: >> You can also have a look at askbot. >> It seems to have more functionalities. >> Good luck ! >> >> www.askbot.org

Re: Customizing error message in ModelForm

Yes indeed! Thank you very much for your help. Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Customizing error message in ModelForm

This should do the trick: class PrijsvraagForm(ModelForm): mail = forms.EmailField(error_messages={'required':'Vul aub een geldig Email adres in', 'invalid': 'Het email adres is niet geldig'}) class Meta: model = Prijsvraag def clean_code(self):

remove items from queryset for nested regrouping

Hi, I've been working on a project that takes into consideration performance as the top priority therefore am trying to use single to queries at each page to collect all the needed information. Any who, I got to a point where I have one query set that need to be regrouped based on column (left,

Re: Customizing error message in ModelForm

@Martin Thank you for your reply. I tried to do this, but I still get the default error message (the custom error from the code field works as it should): from django.db import models from django.forms import ModelForm from django import forms class Prijsvraag(models.Model): naam =

Re: Customizing error message in ModelForm

Error messages in ModelForms work perfectly fine. class PersonForm(forms.ModelForm): first_name = forms.CharField(error_messages={'required': 'Please enter your first name!'}) class Meta: model = Person http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#error-messages --

Re: Stackoverflow kind of Answer/commenting app in Django

On 15 April 2011 13:01, roberto wrote: > You can also have a look at askbot. > It seems to have more functionalities. > Good luck ! > > www.askbot.org > > On Apr 14, 6:43 pm, AJ wrote: >> Why has this become a case for me? I just wanted to

Re: Stackoverflow kind of Answer/commenting app in Django

You can also have a look at askbot. It seems to have more functionalities. Good luck ! www.askbot.org On Apr 14, 6:43 pm, AJ wrote: > Why has this become a case for me? I just wanted to know about a particular > solution, that whether it exists or not. I did try Google

Customizing error message in ModelForm

I want to show a custom error message in a Modelform. With a normal form I can add an error message like this: error_messages={'required': 'Vul aub een geldig Email adres in', 'invalid': 'Het email adres is niet geldig'} With a ModelForm this won't work. Is there a way to add a custom error

OneToOne relationship - id displayed in admin instead of object name?

Hi everyone, I have a class definition as follows in my models: class BlogUser(models.Model): *blogger = models.OneToOneField(User)* *# User being the django.contrib.auth.models user* featured =models.BooleanField() url =

Re: Error: No module named mysql.base when trying to sync.db

Solved! in settings.py file, option 'ENGINE' must be like this: django.db.backends.mysql 2011/4/14, pagan : > same problem. apache2, mod_wsgi, python-mysqldb installed. When i add > databases engine, name, user, password in settings.py, i got a > message: > > ImportError at

Re: best practice override admin 1.2 "delete"?

glad it did work :) On Apr 15, 10:32 am, λq wrote: > Wow, this is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a million! :D > > 2011/4/15 Mengu > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I've just asked in the #django channel. Read this > >

Django 1.3 and multilingual

Hello all, i updeted my app to django 1.3 and stop to work my custom admin. use_fieldsets = [ (None, {'fields': ('photo1', 'title',)}), ] i have this error Unknown field(s) (title) specified for HomePage when i dont use use_fieldsets the admin work but i need to custom the order of

Re: best practice override admin 1.2 "delete"?

Wow, this is exactly what I am looking for. Thanks a million! :D 2011/4/15 Mengu > Hi, > > I've just asked in the #django channel. Read this > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.queryset > . > > On Apr 15, 6:27 am, λq

Re: best practice override admin 1.2 "delete"?

Hi, I've just asked in the #django channel. Read this http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.queryset. On Apr 15, 6:27 am, λq wrote: > Thanks Mengu, > > I have another question: > > how to set admin's default view NOT to

Re: testing views problem

On 14.4.2011 20:12, Daniel Gerzo wrote: On 14.4.2011 18:21, Shawn Milochik wrote: If the code sample you pasted is accurate, then you have an extra space between 'activate' and the next forward-slash. I doesn't really matter what kind of URL I pass to get() method (I am actually using reverse