Re: Check if user is in a list

Hey DR, that works perfectly! Cheers, Chris On Jan 18, 1:44 pm, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Jan 18, 12:43 pm, Darthmahon <cpma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > I've got a model like this: > >

Check if user is in a list

Hey Guys, I've got a model like this: event = models.ForeignKey(Event) user= models.ForeignKey(UserProfile) user_2 = models.ForeignKey(UserProfile, related_name='user_2') I then get a list of all the invites: people_invited = EventInvitation.objects.filter

Re: auth: get_profile(): create if it does not exist.

Why not create your own function then and just put the try or except code in that? That way it'll only be one line. On Dec 17, 3:19 pm, nbv4 wrote: > On Dec 17, 5:00 am, Thomas Guettler wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > The method user.get_profile() fails, if the

Re: auth: get_profile(): create if it does not exist.

Can you not do this: if request.user.is_authenticated(): # Get profile user.get_profile() else: # Create profile On Dec 17, 10:00 am, Thomas Guettler wrote: > Hi, > > The method user.get_profile() fails, if the user has no profile. During > my custom login I >

Re: Count is different when using custom SQL?

Hi Malcolm, Weird. I managed to fix this problem by using the distinct filter which I didn't know existed but does what I actually wanted anyway :) // get results friends_albums = Albums.objects.filter(users__in=friend_list, date__gte=today).distinct().select_related()

Re: custom variables in settings.py

Actually just realised you want to do this in the template file. How about this: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/67/ On Dec 10, 10:50 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First thing you need to do is import your settings file at the top of > your .py fil

Re: custom variables in settings.py

First thing you need to do is import your settings file at the top of your .py file import mysite.settings Then just reference it like so: {{ settings.MAP_MEDIA }} Cheers, Chris On Dec 10, 10:28 am, Leppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am facing some issues in creating custom

Count is different when using custom SQL?

Hi Guys, Ok got a bit of a tricky one here for some reason. Basically I am doing a query which returns a list of albums your friends own. The problem is that I need to group the results by the album id so that I only get a unique list of albums. Now what I've noticed is that the number of

Re: Many to Many entries being duplicated, any ideas?

I'll give it a go :) Thanks for your help Ben. On Dec 9, 9:50 am, Ben Eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm, don't know. that's the documented approach. you might want to   > investigate intermediary tables/models etc. > > On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:24, Darthmahon wrote: > >

Re: Many to Many entries being duplicated, any ideas?

Ahh yes possibly. Any downsides to using this? On Dec 9, 9:19 am, Ben Eliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you want something like this? > friends_new = models.ManyToManyField("self",symmetrical=False) > > On 9 Dec 2008, at 09:06, Darthmahon wrote: > > > &g

Re: Many to Many entries being duplicated, any ideas?

Hi Guys, Just bumping this up as I still can't figure out why this is happening :/ On Dec 8, 9:27 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've got a model that has a Many to Many relationship on one of the > fields. This relationship is basically on

Many to Many entries being duplicated, any ideas?

Hi Guys, I've got a model that has a Many to Many relationship on one of the fields. This relationship is basically on itself though like this: # class UserProfile(models.Model): user= models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True) friends_new

Re: Is it possible to output JSON like this?

ent 2', 'location' : '1', 'id' : '2' } ] } ) > > > In [3]: from django.utils.simplejson import dumps > > > In [4]: dumps(results) > > Out[4]: '[{"date": "2008-11-04 00:00:00", "dayEvents": [{"id": "1", > > "lo

Re: Is it possible to output JSON like this?

t to > simplejson dump/dumps functions. > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 01:17, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Ok I'm using the following code to turn my model into JSON: > > > from django.core import serializers > > json = serializer

Is it possible to output JSON like this?

Hi, Ok I'm using the following code to turn my model into JSON: from django.core import serializers json = serializers.serialize("json", Event.objects.all()[:5], fields=('title','date','location')) Now, this returns JSON like this: [ { "pk": 1, "model": "events.event", "fields": {

RSS feed only returning one result, but table has 10 results.

Hey Guys, Got a very strange thing going on with the RSS feed framework in Django. Here is the code for one feed: * class LatestNotes(Feed): title = "Title" link = "Link" description = "Description" def items(self): return

Re: Checking image isn't too big on upload

Hi Marty, So currently there is no way of getting the dimensions for an image? On Jul 25, 6:09 pm, "Marty Alchin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just upgraded my Django to the tru

Checking image isn't too big on upload

Hey, I've just upgraded my Django to the trunk and noticed some code I need to change. I've got a form that uploads images, looks like Django throws up an error if the file is not an image, which is nice but I also need to check if the image is too big/small. Here is the code: class

ForeignKey ordering on Models

Hey, I want to have a field on one model link to another model as a ForeignKey. Problem is, this field needs to be declared before the second model has been defined. Example below - latest refers to Album, but Album is below Musician so it won't let me do this? Is there a way of getting around

Re: Many to many array accessible from template?

 pm, "Alex Koshelev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But in this case `message` must be a `UserProfile` instance if it has > `users` attribute > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Alex, > > > I set the

Re: Many to many array accessible from template?

model has `users_read` field why do you write in > template `message.users`? > > On Jul 13, 2:56 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I'm writing a messaging module at the moment. I'm printing out the > > list of messages fine, but when

Many to many array accessible from template?

Hey, I'm writing a messaging module at the moment. I'm printing out the list of messages fine, but when I loop through each message I want to check if the current user is in an array. This array has all of the people who have read the message so far. Model looks like this: sender

Re: Having problems with regroup on datetime

Not sure what happened, but I fixed this by doing this: {% regroup event_list by date.date as events %} {% for event in grouped %} {{ event.grouper|date:"l jS F" }} {% for event in events.list %} {{ event.title }} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} On Jun 22, 1:01 pm, Darthmahon <[EM

Having problems with regroup on datetime

Hi, I am trying to group a list of events using the regroup template tag as such: {% regroup event_list by date as events %} {% for event in events %} {{ event.grouper.day }} {% for event in events.list %} {{ event.title }} {% endfor %} {% endfor %} Now, in my model for Events, I am using a

How to check if something in one array is in another

Hi Guys, I'm trying to do a hash lookup with two arrays. Basically, I have a friends list and another list that has user id's. I want to check if any of the user id's I have are also in the friends list. The two arrays are just normal dictionaries that look something like this: friends =

Re: Timezone conversion

t when using > dateutil.tz.gettz) handles all this. > > -- Horst > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Just been having a chat with someone at work and was offered an > > alternative. > > > Fi

Re: Timezone conversion

one. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/time-zone-support.html Any ideas if this is a good way of doing this? On Jun 13, 9:37 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yea that's the one - so hopefully, once I assign it a timezone > with .replace it will recognise it properly :) &

Re: Timezone conversion

his? > > ValueError: astimezone() cannot be applied to a naive datetime > > This just means that the datetime instance you're working with, has no > timezone associated with it :-) > > -- Horst > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: Timezone conversion

the database you have to associated the > respective timezone with that datetime instance: > > tzedate = edate.replace(tzinfo=gettz(settings.TIMEZONE)) > tz = gettz('America/New_York') > edatetz = tzedate.astimezone(tz) > > Just a wild guess, though. > > -- Horst > > On

Timezone conversion

Hi Guys, I want to convert a datetime field for an entry in my database to a specified timezone. Here is the code I have so far: from dateutil.parser import * from dateutil.tz import * from datetime import * event = get_object_or_404(Event, id__exact=eventid) edate = event.date tz =

Re: Can't convert UTC time :(

this: 2008-06-12 20:57:04 It's missing all of the extra stuff the first date prints out. I'm guessing this is why the time is not converting, because there is no tzinfo data? Any ideas? On Jun 11, 5:50 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tried out both pytz and dateutil. I lik

Re: Can't convert UTC time :(

: > Pfu, no idea. This is the first time I've heard of pytz, to be honest > :-) But I'd assume that whenever you create a new datetime object with > a given timezone, it should consider the DST setting. Haven't tried it > though on any library. > > -- Horst > > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 a

Re: Can't convert UTC time :(

supposed > to have (yet is lacking the timezone attribute itself), you can easily > attach a timezone like this: > > mydatetime.replace(tzinfo=gettz('CEST')) # associated mydatetime with > the CEST timezone > > I hope this helps :-) > > -- Horst > >

Re: Can't convert UTC time :(

between 2 timezones? Then > perhaps the tzinfo class itself might be of some help here. It has a > utcoffset(self, datetime) method that returns a datetime.timedelta > instance:http://docs.python.org/lib/datetime-tzinfo.html > > - Horst > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Dart

Can't convert UTC time :(

Hi Guys, I want to convert a UTC timestamp so I can use it to figure out what offset a certain user has based on their selected timezone. I'm using the Python pytz module by the way. Here is the code so far: == # get users time timezone = timezone('America/New_York') # get UTC time

Re: Queryset returning unexpected results

Ahh ok. Something like this then? qset = (Q(tags__title__icontains=query) | Q(title__icontains=query)) results = Blog.objects.filter(qset).extra(LEFT OUTER JOIN tag ON blog.tag = tag.id) On Mar 5, 10:49 pm, Pigletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically, the queryset in views.py will ONLY

Re: Queryset returning unexpected results

Ahh ok, can I simply specify just the 'left outer join' part of the query or do I need need to write it myself I.E. SELECT from TABLE where XXX LEFT OUTER JOIN... On Mar 5, 10:49 pm, Pigletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basically, the queryset in views.py will ONLY return results if that > >

Queryset returning unexpected results

Hey, Ok I have a queryset that basically searches a model for both the title, and the title of related tags. File: views.py query = request.POST.get('blog', '') if query: qset = ( Q(tags__title__icontains=query) |

Re: Need some help with a query if you can :)

Hi Guys, Just wondered if anyone else could help out on this one? To me it doesn't seem like it's a difficult thing to do, I just can't get it to work :( Cheers, Chris On Feb 23, 11:48 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm ok, can't get this to print anything. When trying

Re: Need some help with a query if you can :)

gt; friends}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > Your template should then be: > {% for friend in friends %} >     {{ friend }} >     {{ friend.thread_set|join:", " }} > {% endfor %} > > All that is if you want to display all the threads for each friend. > &

Re: Need some help with a query if you can :)

render_to_response('people/threads.html', { "thread_list" : threads }, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) - - Template: - {% for thread in thread_list %} {{ thread.title }} {{ thread.friends|join:", " }} {% endfor %} - On Feb 22, 10:44 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL

Re: Need some help with a query if you can :)

ads for friends > threads = [] > for friend in friends: > thread.append([friend, friend.threads.all()]) > > > On Feb 23, 8:34 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I have three models but I can only handle the relationship between

Need some help with a query if you can :)

Hey, I have three models but I can only handle the relationship between two at any one time. Basically I have a page that needs to show a threads the current user's friends are currently participating in. I.E. something like this: Thread: ABC Participating: Friend 1 Thread: XYZ Participating:

Re: Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

set to "mysite.urls".  Is that > in fact the correct URLs file? > > I would suggest jumping into the python interpreter and importing your > desired settings file, check the __file__/__path__ module attributes > and also do the same with your urls.py file just to make sure you >

Re: Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

== File: urls.py == from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), (r'^$', 'mysite.views.index'), (r'^settings/',

Re: Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

== File: urls.py == from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^admin/', include('django.contrib.admin.urls')), (r'^$', 'thumbslap.views.index'), (r'^settings/',

Re: Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

Yea I've restarted it and "touched" the fcgi file so it's rather odd - do you know of any good tutorials that are not written by the Django team (read them, not too helpful and assume too much)? On Feb 16, 9:05 pm, Bret W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you restarted the Web server?  Perhaps

Re: Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

Hi Bret, Yea I've done both of those things, ran syncdb as well. It's very odd. For example I have a /static/ folder that just has all of my css files, but even when I try to access that folder it shows the Django Welcome screen. I wouldn't expect that to happen... On Feb 16, 7:57 pm, Bret W

Deploying Django - can't get past the welcome screen

Hi Guys, In the final steps of my app and looking to deploy (yay!). I'm using a dedicated server which has Apache 2 and is using FastCGI with Lighttpd. Django installed, the models are in, the mysql database is working but I can't get past this welcome screen:

Re: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'strftime'

of doing it, but it seems to work :) On Feb 16, 10:49 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Tried this and it gave me the following error: > > TypeError at /register/ > an integer is required > > Any ideas? > > On Feb 13, 11:03 pm, Alex Koshelev

Re: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'strftime'

om datetime import date > _dob = date( year = form.clean_data['dob_year'], >                    month = form.clean_data['dob_month'], >                    day = form.clean_data['dob_day'] >                       ) > > On 14 фев, 01:48,Darthmahon<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'strftime'

that. By the way, I am using Django 0.96 and MySQL. On Feb 13, 10:38 pm, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If birthday UserProfile field in DataField you must set date object to > it. Not string. > > On 14 фев, 00:50, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

'unicode' object has no attribute 'strftime'

Hmm I seem to have hit another problem just after another! I've got a form that lets user's select the birthday via three dropdowns (day, month and year). This is all using newforms. Basically, within my views.py file I have a function that creates new users - one part of this process is to make

Re: Using newforms and a select - how do I stop a user from selecting a value?

                (None,'Month',), >                 (1,'January'), >                 .... > > On Feb 14, 7:24 am, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I'm using the newforms functionality to create my forms - so the > > structu

Using newforms and a select - how do I stop a user from selecting a value?

Hey, I'm using the newforms functionality to create my forms - so the structure is something like this: / FORMS.PY / class RegisterForm(forms.Form): MONTH_CHOICES=( (0,'Month',), (1,'January'),

Re: Simple filter query throwing up an error

Thanks for all your help guys - python docs make sense :) On Feb 10, 12:17 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 10, 2008 5:59 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Event.objects.filter(date__exact=datetime.now()) > > >

Simple filter query throwing up an error

Hey, I want to get a list of events that are happening today and I'm using this query: Event.objects.filter(date__exact=datetime.now()) Simple enough, but it throws up this error: AttributeError at /events/today/ 'module' object has no attribute 'now' My model looks like this: title

Re: Strange Many-to-Many relationship question

_profile.avatar}} > Of course if you set proper AUTH_PROFILE_MODULE setting. > > On 19 янв, 22:24, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm using the built in authentication of Django, so new users who > > register go through the User model.

Strange Many-to-Many relationship question

Hi, I'm using the built in authentication of Django, so new users who register go through the User model. I also have a custom UserProfile model that links directly to the User model via a ForeignKey. This is my completed UserProfile model: # File: people/models.py

ImageField Example

Hey, Does anyone have a working example of uploading images using Django? I've looked extensively and haven't found anything - any idea how I save images using Django? I've put an ImageField in my model with the path to where it should save, but how do I tell Django to save it when a form is

Re: How to see if current item is in a list

Doh! Yup I forgot that...cheers! :) On Jan 12, 4:17 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 12, 2008 10:59 AM, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey, > > > I want to check if the current item I am pri

How to see if current item is in a list

Hey, I want to check if the current item I am printing in one list is also available in another list. Basically I have a list of books and I want to check if the user already has a particular book in their profile so that instead of it saying "Add Book", it says "Remove Book". At the moment I

Re: Inserting a date into DateField

code to, > _dob = form_name.cleaned_data['date_attribute_name'] > form.cleaned_data, gets you the canonical representation for the data > type depending on the field type declared in the Form class. > (All this assuming you are using newforms) > > On Jan 12, 5:49 pm, Darthmahon &l

Inserting a date into DateField

Hi, I'm trying to insert a simple date (2002-01-12) from a form I have created into a DateField but I keep getting this error: 'str' object has no attribute 'strftime' This is how the DateField is setup in my models.py file: birthday = models.DateField(blank=True) This is how I am trying to

Re: When to use templatetags and how to use views.py

Hi Malcolm, Thanks for the great writeup, it has certainly made things clearer. Like you say, don't sweat the small stuff - I'll try not to :) Thanks, Chris On Jan 11, 8:53 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 23:18 -0800, Darthmahon wrote: &

Re: When to use templatetags and how to use views.py

, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10-Jan-08, at 8:54 PM, Darthmahon wrote: > > > Is there any real difference between passing the data from a views.py > > file into a template compared with asking for the data using a > > templatetag? > > if y

When to use templatetags and how to use views.py

Hey, I've recently stumbled on templatetags as a great way of pulling in data you need within a specific template file. Previously I would have done all of the logic to pull in data from within a views.py file and then just pass that data into a specified template. Is there any real difference

Re: How is this page being loaded?

wondered if anyone had any thoughts... Cheers, Chris On Jan 9, 7:17 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darthmahon wrote: > > I've been looking through the source code for djangoproject.com which > > is really useful and has helped me a lot, but I have a question &

How is this page being loaded?

I've been looking through the source code for djangoproject.com which is really useful and has helped me a lot, but I have a question regarding the code. Does anyone know how the url www.djangoproject.com/community know which template it needs to load? I've been looking to see how they have

Re: Many to Many

Hi Alex, I am using 0.96 - __str__ did the trick :) Thanks so much for your help! On Jan 8, 11:01 pm, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What version of django do you use? May be you need __str__ method for > models > > On 9 янв, 01:52, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Many to Many

Hi Alex, Thanks - no error now, but it prints this: Platform object How can I get it to print the title for this platform? On Jan 8, 10:01 pm, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mistake, colon needed after "join" > > {{game.platforms.all|join:", "

Re: Many to Many

ef games(request): >         games = Game.objects.all() >         return render_to_response('games/games.html', > { 'games':games }, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) > > {% for game in games %} > Title: {{ game.title }} > Platform: {{game.platforms.all|join", "}}

Many to Many

Hey, Can't get my head around this. Basically I have a model that includes a manytomany field like this: ## File: /games/models.py ## class Platform(models.Model): title = models.CharField(maxlength=30) def __unicode__(self):

Re: Passing data when using render_to_response

Thanks Maarten, so can I still then iterate through the songs in my template file? On Jan 8, 10:00 am, Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > """ > def songs(request): > songs_listing = [] > for songs_list in Song.objects.all(): > songs_dict = {} >

Re: Query How To

Ahh ok I saw that and thought it might be useful. Can I have more than one ManyToMany field in my custom user profile model? I.E. if a user has a list of songs and groups, for example? Just reading about ManyToMany - it seems to create an intermediary join table - is this exactly what I am

Re: Query How To

; > Then you can iterate over it or pass that list to a template that > iterates over it > > >>> for song in list: > >>>doSomething > > Look here for morehttp://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/ > > On Jan 7, 3:01 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTEC

Query How To

Hey, My ongoing quest to get a basic app working will hopefully be answered by this question :) I have the following model.py file: File: model.py == from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Song(models.Model):

Re: Passing data when using render_to_response

Hi Doug, Returning the songs function results worked a treat. I'm looking into the generic views part of Django at the moment as it seems to be what I want or is it ok for me to do as you suggested above? Cheers, Chris On Jan 7, 8:48 pm, Doug B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Couldn't you get

Passing data when using render_to_response

Hi All, Got a quick question for you. I have a page that lists songs. Each song has a link that allows a user to add it to their songs list. Here is the views.py file: def songs(request): songs_listing = [] for songs_list in Song.objects.all(): songs_dict = {}

Re: Should logic appear in views.py

ing and most of > business logic have to be in views.py or similar but not in models.py. > > On 7 янв, 12:38, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > I've just started working on my project but before getting too far > > down the line I wanted to ask

Should logic appear in views.py

Hey, I've just started working on my project but before getting too far down the line I wanted to ask the opinion of people on here. I've seen some code examples that show functions within the models.py file like so: from django.db import models class

Re: Getting current user id

th.models.User, which maps to the django users > table. request.user would be such an instance :) > > On Jan 6, 10:08 pm, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks, should have guessed that! > > > For some reason though it is returning the value as 11L.

Re: Getting current user id

the end? On Jan 6, 9:00 pm, Alex Koshelev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > User id - request.user.id > > On 6 янв, 23:43, Darthmahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > Been looking to get the current id of the user logged in everywhe

Getting current user id

Hi Guys, Been looking to get the current id of the user logged in everywhere but can't seem to find how to do this. Basically in my views.py file I want to insert an entry into a table. Part of this insert requires the current logged in users id. The only bit of information I seem to be able to