Re: Experience of migrating a Django site to DotCloud

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Olli Wang wrote: > I have migrated my Django site to the new PaaS provider DotCloud. I > think it's a pretty good choice if you want to deploy your Django on > the cloud. > > You can see the full article at >

Re: django and fastcgi losing some info in request data

FOUND: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/76718270ffed9696?pli=1 link for future reference. -- 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

Hyperlinks in Messages

Hi, How can i include hyperlinks in the messages?(am using the messages framework). The hyperlinks dont seem to get rendered; am getting the text'd version of the HTML. -Venkat -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Experience of migrating a Django site to DotCloud

I have migrated my Django site to the new PaaS provider DotCloud. I think it's a pretty good choice if you want to deploy your Django on the cloud. You can see the full article at http://www.ollix.com/blog/2011/04/25/migrating-django-site-dotcloud/ -- You received this message because you are

Re: django and fastcgi losing some info in request data

sorry... was doing some more digging. Seems the problem is exclusive to // scenarios. doing somethign like this: http://mydomain/url/http%3A%21%21wikipedia.com/ gives me the proper : http:!!wikipedia.com etc etc so any clue why it would be exclusively stripping out one / from // ? -- You

Re: Unexpected error

The error keeps happening. Here is another trace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/ base.py", line 111, in get_response response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File

Re: Django view in admin index.

Not clearly understand what do you need. If you want to modify Admin index page to add your action links or widgets, take a look at django-grappelli or django-admin-tools. If you want to add custom view for your models, then read this

Django view in admin index.

I have a view in view.py: def question_list(request): #questions = Question.objects.filter(topic__icontains = 1) questions = Question.objects.all() return render_to_response('admin/question_list.html', {'questions':questions}) question_list = staff_member_required(question_list) How

Re: Is there a more basic tutorial?

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 10:24 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > None of these will really help you witha lot of the other stuff you > will need to know - web servers (apache, nginx, lighttpd), CGI, etc. > If you are not a computer scientist or not planning on being one, and > want simple: try

Re: Is there a more basic tutorial?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 04:34, byront wrote: > Hello, > > I went through the beginners tutorial and am interested in Django. I > new to web development altogether and am having trouble finding > resources to help me make a very basic but professional looking page. >

Re: User Profile and Form initial values

Yeah, it's documented. Right at the tippy-top of the ModelForms docs. http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/forms/modelforms/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: User Profile and Form initial values

On 04/26/2011 06:04 PM, Kenny Meyer wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote: If you're creating a ModelForm that already has data in the database, don't pass in request.POST. Instead, pass in the instance with the 'instance' keyword argument. For

Re: User Profile and Form initial values

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Shawn Milochik wrote: > If you're creating a ModelForm that already has data in the database, don't > pass in request.POST. Instead, pass in the instance with the 'instance' > keyword argument. > > For example, if it was a ModelForm for the

Re: User Profile and Form initial values

That did it. 99% of the time the data will be there; I can write exception clauses for when it isn't. I think I'll use this method, though I had just discovered the "initial" dictionary argument as well, a few minutes before I noticed your reply. Is there a spot in the Django docs that explains

Re: Django ORM question about lookups that span relationships

First of all, many thanks to everyone who replied in this thread, your posts were very interesting and helpful! On 24.04.2011 07:35, Alexander Schepanovski wrote: You can, with a subrequest: Blog.objects.filter(pk__in=Entry.objects.filter(pub_date__lte=date(2011, 4, 1),

Re: User Profile and Form initial values

If you're creating a ModelForm that already has data in the database, don't pass in request.POST. Instead, pass in the instance with the 'instance' keyword argument. For example, if it was a ModelForm for the User object: form = UserForm(instance = request.user) -- You received this

User Profile and Form initial values

I'm struggling to create a method by which a user can update his user profile, where the current information is displayed in the "edit" form, and I'm hoping someone here can point out what I'm doing wrong. I am not using ubernostrum's django-profiles for this because it hasn't been touched in

Re: How do I decode a string that it is received by a filter ???

I meant to try locally if it solves your problem. If yes, then migrate solution to live server. Anyway, what OS do you use at your apache server? On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Ariel wrote: > The site is deploy in an apache server, that does not help. > Do you have any

Re: Is there a more basic tutorial?

This has nothing to do with Django. This is a Web design question. Try a mailing list about HTML and/or CSS. Mostly CSS. Shawn -- 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.

Re: How i connect my PostgreeSQL to a Django?

What error are you getting? -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more

Is there a more basic tutorial?

Hello, I went through the beginners tutorial and am interested in Django. I new to web development altogether and am having trouble finding resources to help me make a very basic but professional looking page. Something similar to this yacht club page http://bhyc.on.ca/ with a banner, menus that

How i connect my PostgreeSQL to a Django?

My Django dont make any program because the PostgreeSQL is not connect. Someone help me. Thanks for the answer. Bye -- 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

Re: authentication not working using test client

I figured it out. When I first set up my settings.py file, I did: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'socialregistration.auth.FacebookAuth', ) which breaks (well, omits) the default authentication module that client.login() depends on. I needed to do: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (

Re: How do I decode a string that it is received by a filter ???

Django docs say to set Apaches locale correctly http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/django_apache_and_mod_wsgi Would mean to put export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' into /etc/apache2/envvars. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: {{ STATIC_URL }} and RequestContext()

Hi, static context processor is simply this: return {'STATIC_URL': settings.STATIC_URL} so you can just add it to your context. Regarding your design decision, i'm not sure, why don't you just give the whole object to the context and access its attributes/functions in the template. Would look

authentication not working using test client

I've got a test case that essentially looks like this: -- from django.test import TestCase from django.test.client import Client from django.contrib.auth.models import User class ApiTest(TestCase): def

Re: How to write a view that accesses a method over all objects in a given model?

Hi, to access a model in the view, simply import it into you view. Something along the lines: from yourapp.models import Place from django.http import HttpResponse def some_view(request): OBJECT_ID = 1 # put here the id of the object # or give it as a function

Re: cx_Oracle error: ImproperlyConfigured

Thanks to all for supporting this to fix the issue. So issue is resolved by adding these 2 lines in "app.wsgi" os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = "/opt/app/oracle/products/11.2.0/lib" os.environ["ORACLE_HOME"] = "/opt/app/oracle/products/11.2.0" Thanks again for helping to fix this issue. Its

Re: ORM help

Hi Daniel, On Apr 22, 5:57 pm, Daniel Gerzo wrote: > I have a following models: > > class Movie(models.Model): >      title = models.CharField(max_length=255) >      year = models.IntegerField(max_length=4) >      rating = models.DecimalField(max_digits=2, decimal_places=1,

Re: M2M Ordering in Admin

Just found this: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-sortedm2m/0.3.2 It looks awesome. Thanks, Gregor. Going to try it out. Will post back if I have problems. br On Apr 26, 9:06 am, br wrote: > I am creating an application for displaying decks of slides.   Each > slide

M2M Ordering in Admin

I am creating an application for displaying decks of slides. Each slide may be in more than one deck. Order of the slides in a deck matters. So, I have a many to many relation. class Slide(BaseModel): """Represents a slide in a slide deck for a display"" class Deck(BaseModel): name

Raw SQL within ModelForm.save() in one transaction

How can I execute raw SQL in ModelForm.save()? I am using Django 1.3 / Postgresl 8.3 with contrib.admin without TransactionMiddleware. If I use connection.cursor() in ModelForm.save() (called by admin view which is using @transaction.commit_on_success), the cursor is created within a new Postgres

Re: Unexpected error

Thanks for immediate answer. Here is my manager: class PageManager(models.Manager): def active(self): return self.active_with_expired().filter(Q(expire_time__exact=None) | Q(expire_time__gt=datetime.now())) def active_with_expired(self): return self.filter(active=True,

Re: Need advice on ecommerce app direction

I believe that you can also buy the book (or e-book) directly from Amazon: http://www.apress.com/9781430225355 and I also found it to be an excellent read. Best, William On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, shofty wrote: > agree with Russ, but

Re: Need advice on ecommerce app direction

agree with Russ, but i have used the book mentioned and found it excellent. http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Django-Commerce-James-McGaw/dp/1430225351 not an affiiate link. On Apr 26, 1:23 am, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > On Tuesday, April 26, 2011, Ernesto Guevara

Re: Unexpected error

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:32:35 PM UTC+1, Czare1 wrote: > > Once for a while I get very strange error. It's listed below. I > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/ > base.py", line 111, in get_response > response =

fastcgi and new translation

Dear List, I have some issues with runfcgi and translations. I'm running the fastcgi processes from runit with this: /usr/local/bin/python /path/to/manage.py runfcgi daemonize=false method=prefork host=127.0.0.1 port=8001 After compiling a new translation file I restart the fcgi processes but I

Unexpected error

Once for a while I get very strange error. It's listed below. I Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/ base.py", line 111, in get_response response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File

Re: Django 1.2 Dropped Sessions when single view contains registration and login authentication

- Original Message - > From: "benp" > To: "Django users" > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 8:54:15 AM > Subject: Django 1.2 Dropped Sessions when single view contains registration > and login authentication > I've seen other Django

Re: Accessing ImageField temporary file to dynamically change upload_to storage path

I'm also looking for something like this so please post any info you might find on the subject if you don't get the answer in this group. PS! FYI: I think most software writing metadata into a file writes at exif, perhaps xmp or iptc in addition to plain exif, so you only need to check for exif

Accessing ImageField temporary file to dynamically change upload_to storage path

I'm in need of direction to access the temporary file that is stored in memory or on disk from an ImageField/FileField so that I can read it before it gets moved to its final location. The topics I've found all deal with only modifying the storage path based on other fields in a model. My

How to write a view that accesses a method over all objects in a given model?

First post, creating first Django project and having a of an issue I was hoping for some help with! I'm trying to write my own search which takes as input a user's location and returns a list of places (from my db) sorted by proximity. Here's roughly what I've got: in models.py: class

Re: Form redisplay in the case of form errors?

On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:37:50 AM UTC+1, Derek wrote: > > I have a form that I am expecting will redisplay with errors; it does not > do so. Instead, the "print form.errors" statement is reached which does, in > fact, show that there are errors. For example: > > cellphoneThis field is >

Form redisplay in the case of form errors?

I have a form that I am expecting will redisplay with errors; it does not do so. Instead, the "print form.errors" statement is reached which does, in fact, show that there are errors. For example: cellphoneThis field is required. What else do I need to do to have the form be redisplayed?

Re: i am suspicious !

now it 's work def cleanPath(file): path= settings.MEDIA_ROOT+"/here/"+str(file) if default_storage.exists(path): default_storage.delete(path) return "file deleted : "+str(file) si simple ! :o) tonton On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Tonton wrote:

Re: escaping metacharacter in url pattern

That is just terrific Raúl, thanks a lot! code I ended up using: url(r'^cgi-bin/DocDB/ ShowDocument','docDB.views.retrieveDocumentVersion') documentid = int(request.GET.get('docid')) version = request.GET.get('version', '') On Apr 21, 4:16 pm, Raúl Cumplido