Dumb newbie question

2012-02-17 Thread Bob Carlson
I'm well into beginning building my actual app after going through the tutorial, but I have no feel yet for the answer to this question. Can apps share a set of models? My application neatly divides into three pieces, but all the pieces share the same data. Should these be 3 apps or 1? Can apps

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-02 Thread ajohnston
I'm straying a bit off-topic here, but I forgot to mention that other way I've seen people do 'enum' in Python is: >>> class Colors(object): ... RED, GREEN, BLUE = range(3) ... >>> c = Colors() >>> c.RED 0 >>> c.BLUE 2 >>> c.GREEN 1 Not sure this helps much in this particular case though. --

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-02 Thread ajohnston
I would probably do it Bruno's way, since it is more explicit, but just so you know, there are some enumeration tools in Python. Just not an 'enum' type: >>> base_choices = ['No', 'Yes'] <-- transform this any way you want: >>> choices = list(enumerate(base_choices)) >>> choices [(0, 'No'), (1, '

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-02 Thread NENAD CIKIC
thanks, to all. I have now some code to study and understand. Nenad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/WZCA-XCSg_IJ. To post to this group, sen

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-02 Thread Pavlo Kapyshin
https://github.com/daevaorn/turbion/blob/master/turbion/bits/utils/enum.py -- 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-

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-02 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On Feb 1, 10:45 pm, NENAD CIKIC wrote: > Hello, the subject expresses my discomfort with certain python > characteristics, given my background, and my lack of python knowledge. > Specifically lets say that I have a model with a Text field and char field. > The char field is length 1 and says "use

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-01 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 2/02/2012 12:13pm, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar wrote: TO_USE= ( ('Y', 'Yes'), ('N', 'No'), ) class X(models.Model): txt= models.CharField(db_index=True,null=True, blank=True,max_length=30) use_txt= models.CharField(blank=False,max_length=1,default='D',choices=TO_USE) an

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-01 Thread Chris
A different way would be to define constants: YES = 'Y' NO = 'N' TO_USE= ( (YES, 'Yes'), (NO, 'No'), ) --- from myapp.models import YES class XForm(forms.ModelForm): def clean(self): cleaned_data=super(XForm, self).clean() txt= cleaned_data['txt'].strip()

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-01 Thread Jeff Heard
*slightly* better would be: class X(models.Model): YES='Y' NO='N' DEFAULT='D' TO_USE = ((X.YES, "Yes"), (X.NO, "No"), (X.DEFAULT, "Default")) txt= models.CharField(db_index=True,null=True, blank=True,max_length=30) use_txt= models.CharField(blank=False,max_length=1,default

Re: Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-01 Thread Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
You could use a class, such as: class TO_USE: Y = 'Yes' N = 'No' if char == TO_USE.Y: pass _Nik On 2/1/2012 1:45 PM, NENAD CIKIC wrote: Hello, the subject expresses my discomfort with certain python characteristics, given my background, and my lack of python knowledge. Specificall

Newbie django/python with C++ background wants enums

2012-02-01 Thread NENAD CIKIC
Hello, the subject expresses my discomfort with certain python characteristics, given my background, and my lack of python knowledge. Specifically lets say that I have a model with a Text field and char field. The char field is length 1 and says "use or do not use the text field". The char field

help-i'm a newbie

2012-01-27 Thread Mahjabeen Akter
Hi all, I want to start learning django, but the tutorial seems so difficult for me! :( " django-admin.py startproject mysite " this line of code is not working. Could you please tell me what's wrong with it? or what should I do to set up a new project? Thank you. -- You received this message be

Re: Newbie question on forms using ChoiceField and "choices" field...

2011-12-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, J. Marc Edwards wrote: > OK...I have the following model and form. > > class CmdString(models.Model): > >     name    = models.CharField(max_length=50) >     cmd = models.CharField(max_length=200) >     eda_app = models.OneToOneField(EDA_App, primary_key=True)

Newbie question on forms using ChoiceField and "choices" field...

2011-12-15 Thread J. Marc Edwards
OK...I have the following model and form. *class CmdString(models.Model): name= models.CharField(max_length=50) cmd = models.CharField(max_length=200) eda_app = models.OneToOneField(EDA_App, primary_key=True) def __unicode__(self): return self.cmd * *cl

Re: Newbie question - if I add "on delete cascade" to a foreign key on my MySQL db

2011-12-13 Thread Mike
Many thanks Jacob! On Dec 13, 8:57 pm, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Mike wrote: > > will I still be able to use Django's ORM? > > Yes, please > seehttps://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.mo... > and in particular DO_NOTHING. > > Jacob -

Re: Newbie question - if I add "on delete cascade" to a foreign key on my MySQL db

2011-12-13 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Mike wrote: > will I still be able to use Django's ORM? Yes, please see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.models.ForeignKey.on_delete and in particular DO_NOTHING. Jacob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Newbie question - if I add "on delete cascade" to a foreign key on my MySQL db

2011-12-13 Thread Mike
will I still be able to use Django's ORM? TIA -- 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...@googlegrou

[Newbie] Console output using runserver..

2011-12-02 Thread vivek_12315
I have been working on a simple project. I use Django app server and use it like: ## C:\search\pysolr\webinterface>python manage.py runserver 8081 Validating models... 0 errors found Django version 1.0.2 final, using settings 'webinterface.settings' Development server

Re: Newbie question on re-defining an XML schema in my Django data model...

2011-11-29 Thread Brian Schott
Marc, There is a couple of ways to do this on top of the Django ORM. You probably want to use a many-to-many relationship with an extra index field. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#extra-fields-on-many-to-many-relationships class SingularWorkFlow(models.Model):

Re: Newbie question on re-defining an XML schema in my Django data model...

2011-11-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Marc Edwards wrote: > I need some help in resetting my thinking on creating my Django data > model. > > I have previously created an XML schema definition for my data model, > but am now trying to re-create this XML data model in a Django data > model. > > In my XM

Newbie question on re-defining an XML schema in my Django data model...

2011-11-29 Thread Marc Edwards
I need some help in resetting my thinking on creating my Django data model. I have previously created an XML schema definition for my data model, but am now trying to re-create this XML data model in a Django data model. In my XML schema, I had defined "collections" of XML complex types that esse

Re: NEWBIE: using django without a model.

2011-10-26 Thread damola oyeniyi
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Re: NEWBIE: using django without a model.

2011-10-26 Thread MikeKJ
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Re: NEWBIE: using django without a model.

2011-10-26 Thread Dipo Elegbede
In my opinion as a starter too, I don't think you need a model if you are not using a database. Others could have their opinions. On 26 Oct 2011 16:37, "damola oyeniyi" wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to create a simple query page using django and pig!. I would > not be needing a database, so I'm n

NEWBIE: using django without a model.

2011-10-26 Thread damola oyeniyi
Hi, I am trying to create a simple query page using django and pig!. I would not be needing a database, so I'm not sure if a model is involved. My pig script will crunch multiple files containing lots of lines with data of the same format. I want to try and display results from that query in a

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-15 Thread Babatunde Akinyanmi
; >> >> > Someone else reported that he was able to solve the problem by >> >> >> > using >> >> >> > a >> >> >> > user name without special characters. >> >> >> >> > This might be difficult

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-14 Thread nara
ment > >> >> > version however: > >> >> > 1. Go to the inbuilt django shell and enter these commands: > >> >> > from django.contrib.sites.models import Site > >> >> > From django.conf import settings > >> >>

Re: Newbie problem installing Django

2011-09-13 Thread fasteddie
Karen, Thank you very much. I will try to get another extractor and see if that fixes the problem. Ed Porter On Sep 12, 9:37 pm, Karen Tracey wrote: > I suspect the problem is using WinZip to try to unzip the tarball. Other > users on this list have reported the same issue in the past. It seems

Re: Newbie problem installing Django

2011-09-13 Thread Karen Tracey
I suspect the problem is using WinZip to try to unzip the tarball. Other users on this list have reported the same issue in the past. It seems that at least some versions of WinZip fail to extract 0-byte files from the archive file. This is a major problem for any type of Python source project sinc

Newbie problem installing Django

2011-09-12 Thread fasteddie
I get the below error msg when I try to install Django 1.3.1 on a windows7 64bit machine. Django-1.3.1/Django-1.3.1/docs/topics/install.txt says Installing an official release ~~ 1. Download the latest release from our `download page`_. 2. Untar the download

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-11 Thread Babatunde Akinyanmi
go.conf import settings >> >> > x = settings.SITE_ID >> >> > Site.objects.get(pk=x) >> >> >> > You should get the same "site matching query does not exist" error. >> >> > Now print x and then check the django_site_table in your

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-11 Thread nara
then check the django_site_table in your database. x > >> > should be the same as the primary key of what you have in the table. > >> > If it isn't, drop the table and syncdb again. > > >> > On 9/10/11, nara wrote: > > >> > > yes, admin i

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-10 Thread Babatunde Akinyanmi
t x and then check the django_site_table in your database. x >> > should be the same as the primary key of what you have in the table. >> > If it isn't, drop the table and syncdb again. >> >> > On 9/10/11, nara wrote: >> >> > > yes, admin is in

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-10 Thread nara
ff all admin. admin is not strictly necessary, it is just a nicety. > > > > One strange thing though: I have had to set PYTHONPATH and > > > explicitly set it to ~/mblog:~/mblog/apps:~/mblog/apps/myblog, > > > even though __init__.py files exist at all levels! Could >

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-10 Thread nara
/mblog/apps/myblog, > > even though __init__.py files exist at all levels! Could > > something as basic as Python module search be broken? > > I am using latest Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.04 > > > Thanks > > Nara > > > On Sep 9, 5:35 pm, Casey Greene wrote: &g

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-09 Thread Babatunde Akinyanmi
//docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-INSTA... >> >> Casey >> >> On 09/09/2011 07:04 PM, nara wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Hi, >> >> > I am a newbie, and I am trying a very basic blog

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-09 Thread nara
> > Casey > > On 09/09/2011 07:04 PM, nara wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I am a newbie, and I am trying a very basic blog site to get familiar > > with the latest development release. I followed the directions in the > > tutorial (part 2)

Re: newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-09 Thread Casey Greene
Is admin in INSTALLED_APPS? https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-INSTALLED_APPS Casey On 09/09/2011 07:04 PM, nara wrote: Hi, I am a newbie, and I am trying a very basic blog site to get familiar with the latest development release. I followed the directions in the

newbie question on activating the automatic admin

2011-09-09 Thread nara
Hi, I am a newbie, and I am trying a very basic blog site to get familiar with the latest development release. I followed the directions in the tutorial (part 2) to try and get the automatic admin going. However, here is what I get on the url localhost:8000/admin/ DoesNotExist at /admin/ Site

Re: Newbie: Help with validation

2011-08-10 Thread Shawn Milochik
In [1]: x = '1234' In [2]: x.isdigit() Out[2]: True -- 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...@goog

Newbie: Help with validation

2011-08-09 Thread damola oyeniyi
Hi all, I have a model snippet that I wanna use to store phonenumbers: e_mail = models.EmailField()     phone = models.CharField(max_length=15) Mobile numbers in my country are 11digit numbers e.g 080, Fixed Lines: (2 digit),7 digit e.g (01)755 I wanna try and validate this field on

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-25 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On Jul 24, 12:40 am, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:03 PM, bruno desthuilliers > > wrote: > > I don't understand what you mean by "serverside apps" here - I mean, > > Django IS for serverside applications, not client side (which would > > require javascript). > > There

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 04:25 -0700, Dmitry Pisklov wrote: > PS I am a Java developer, and more then year ago started looking into > python, wrote few small components for work and now trying to leverage > django for my web-project. I doubt I could do something so fast if I > haven't known python at

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-24 Thread Tim Sawyer
On 24/07/11 16:22, fred.se...@sunrise.com wrote: The only area where I've really struggled is in building a SOAP api to conform to some vendor requirement. It's hard to figure out which python soap module is the right one (i.e. maintained and documented) while Java seems to have better tools. But

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-24 Thread fred.se...@sunrise.com
After many years of developing desktop applications in Python, I had to learn Java and all the web development concepts required in a Java/Tomcat world. After years of Java web development my company has finally come to recognize that ANY development in Python is significantly easier than almos

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-24 Thread bobhaugen
On Jul 23, 8:19 am, Riefers wrote: > I've spent the 10+ years developing serverside apps in java. I've > never done any web page developement. Someone recommended Django. Any > suggestions on where to start? I learned Python and Django at the same time. A lot of people have changed their recomme

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-24 Thread Dmitry Pisklov
Not exactly true. Both java and Python are *strongly* typed. However, Java has static typing, and python has dynamic duck-typing system. That means, type of your object is detected in run-time, but it cannot be changed, contrary to weakly typed languages like PHP, where you can treat string as

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Doug the Webmaster
I went from JAVA to python and am now learning django. Going from JAVA to python is not a big deal. Most of the concepts are the same, the biggest difference being that JAVA is strongly typed and python is weakly typed. This just means a python object can be any type, it doesn't have to be declare

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:03 PM, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > I don't understand what you mean by "serverside apps" here - I mean, > Django IS for serverside applications, not client side (which would > require javascript). There are other kinds of servers and clients besides web, you know. Also

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On 23 juil, 15:19, Riefers wrote: > I've spent the 10+ years developing serverside apps in java. I've > never done any web page developement. Someone recommended Django. Any > suggestions on where to start? Is Django too advanced for me if I've > never done web side developement? I don't understa

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Victor Manuel Quiñones Victor
Hi guys I'm agree with those guys, no further python knowledge it is required to start with django, but maybe in the future will be necesary to increase your django skills. good luck and enjoy django. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Furqan Rauf wrote: > One thing for sure you need to know so

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Furqan Rauf
One thing for sure you need to know some HTML + CSS as well I remember when I started Django I had my application but the UI sucked bad so put the combo on ur check list :D On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 8:52 AM, jocke khazad wrote: > HI, > > To have some knowlege of python is of course helpful but I t

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread jocke khazad
HI, To have some knowlege of python is of course helpful but I think you can learn to write django applications quite fast starting with Djangos own tutorial since you have programming knowlege form another language. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ Good luck! On Sat, Jul

Re: Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Paul Schewietzek
Some python knowledge is helpful, if not required. Since you should know general programming architectures from java, I recommend "Dive into Python" to learn python. http://diveintopython.org/ 2011/7/23 Riefers > I've spent the 10+ years developing serverside apps in java. I've > never done

Web development newbie

2011-07-23 Thread Riefers
I've spent the 10+ years developing serverside apps in java. I've never done any web page developement. Someone recommended Django. Any suggestions on where to start? Is Django too advanced for me if I've never done web side developement? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-24 Thread Rishi
Thanks guys, I'll try this and get back to you! Rishi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/Hu2mFOFBWckJ. To post to this group, send email to d

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-24 Thread Eiji Kobayashi
Ah, yes. You may be right. It may be a simple problem with a simple answer. Maybe I just over complicated things with too much words and explanation. Eiji On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Nan wrote: > > The sporadicness may have to do with the way it's being served -- that > happens to me when

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-24 Thread Nan
The sporadicness may have to do with the way it's being served -- that happens to me when running via FCGI if I save a change but don't restart the process. Depending on your server setup, that may mean touching the WSGI file or touching another special file or restarting your Apache process or s

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-24 Thread Eiji Kobayashi
Hi Rishi, STATIC_ROOT, STATIC_URL, etc. are somewhat new additions to Django. I have troubles with the documentation myself because the new ones describing them are in English :). But I think everything that they considered static - javascript, css, img, and other media were to be inside a directo

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-24 Thread Rishi
Thanks for trying to help me out, Eiji. I tried adding the Alias in the apache configuration file and changing settings.py, but to no avail. I still get the same error. What happens, specifically, is that when I go to the django project page, everything seems to work, I get the same light blue l

Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-23 Thread Eiji Kobayashi
Hello, I'm not exactly sure about your other problems, but the problem with not getting any styles seem to me like you didn't set your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX correctly in your settings file and/or your web server configuration file. You must let it know how to access all the javascript, css and image

Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

2011-06-23 Thread Rishi
Hi everyone, I've just started using Django, and everything has been smooth sailing up until this part. I added 'django.contrib.admin' in settings.py for installed apps, and changed urls.py to allow for the admin page to work. However, the admin page works erratically. That is, at some points no ma

Re: Newbie questions about models / databases

2011-06-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-06-16 at 11:26 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > 1. How does syncdb decide what to write to the sqlite file, and what > not >to? Does it only write info for a given application once? yes - unless the model is removed - when it asks you >2. If I set up a model, syncdb it, change t

Re: Newbie questions about models / databases

2011-06-16 Thread Shawn Milochik
On 06/16/2011 02:26 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: 1. How does syncdb decide what to write to the sqlite file, and what not to? Does it only write info for a given application once? 2. If I set up a model, syncdb it, change the model, and syncdb again - will any changes be seen in

Newbie questions about models / databases

2011-06-16 Thread Dan Stromberg
I'm developing my first django application, but I have a lot of Python experience. I have a couple of related questions about database/model information and manage.py syncdb, in combination with sqlite3: 1. How does syncdb decide what to write to the sqlite file, and what not to? Does it o

Re: Django Newbie Question (Exception Type: TypeError, Value: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable)

2011-05-24 Thread Alexandra
Ok I actually just figured it out. My issue was that I was calling the function instead of the actual instance of the form. I got confused because the variables were named almost identically. On May 24, 8:27 pm, Alexandra wrote: > Hi All, > > I am somewhat new to Django, although I have been prog

Django Newbie Question (Exception Type: TypeError, Value: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable)

2011-05-24 Thread Alexandra
Hi All, I am somewhat new to Django, although I have been programming in Python for a while. I installed Pinax and have been working on a site from one of the starter templates, and have an error I can't seem to wrap my head around. Exception Type: TypeError at /models/add Exception Value: argume

Re: logout problem - NameError - newbie

2011-04-23 Thread Jirka Vejrazka
Hi did you notice in tutorial (or docs) that view names in urls.py are usually strings, not functions? So, if you use 'farewell' in urls.py, you should be fine. HTH Jirka On 22/04/2011, Marg Wilkinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a total newbie slogging my way through

Re: logout problem - NameError - newbie

2011-04-22 Thread Marg Wilkinson
Good call - thanks Shawn - totally forgot to check the imports - the joys of being a newbie. Thanks for the quick reply. On Apr 23, 11:24 am, Shawn Milochik wrote: > It's probably that you didn't import 'farewell' from views.py in > urls.py, so it's not in scope.

Re: logout problem - NameError - newbie

2011-04-22 Thread Shawn Milochik
It's probably that you didn't import 'farewell' from views.py in urls.py, so it's not in scope. -- 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, s

logout problem - NameError - newbie

2011-04-22 Thread Marg Wilkinson
Hi, I'm a total newbie slogging my way through a tutorial. I've reached an impasse with logging off In views my code includes from django.contrib.auth import logout def farewell(request): logout(request)

Re: Newbie question - modelform / dropdown list

2011-03-31 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:43:32 PM UTC+1, rune wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just started with Django, done the tutorial, now I'd like to create > a page were users can put > requests in a queue. Lets say the fields to display are user, date, > filepath, date to load. > I can create this with

Re: Newbie question - modelform / dropdown list

2011-03-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 04:43 -0700, rune wrote: > I just started with Django, done the tutorial, now I'd like to create > a page were users can put > requests in a queue. Lets say the fields to display are user, date, > filepath, date to load. > I can create this with a modelform, but I'd like the u

Newbie question - modelform / dropdown list

2011-03-31 Thread rune
Hi all, I just started with Django, done the tutorial, now I'd like to create a page were users can put requests in a queue. Lets say the fields to display are user, date, filepath, date to load. I can create this with a modelform, but I'd like the user field to be a drop down list with values, re

Re: Newbie Problem with Django reverse()

2011-03-28 Thread Ajay
Hi Alendit, Thanks for explanation. I understand its not necessary but want to understand how reverse() works-checked source but did not understand much. my doubt is if I use something like : reverse('django.contrib.auth.views.password_change_done'), and have url entry like as follows. url(r'^

Re: Newbie Problem with Django reverse()

2011-03-27 Thread Alendit
Hi, if only one url is bound to a controller there is no need for a name argument. When you are specifying a name for an expression and it have got the same name as the controller a conflict arise. Just drop the name argument and it should work. Alendit. On 27 Mrz., 09:54, Ajay wrote: > I am mi

Newbie Problem with Django reverse()

2011-03-27 Thread Ajay
I am missing something really basic here. I am trying to reuse django's change password views. I have following in urls.py: (r'^change-password/$', 'profile.views.change_password', {},'change_password'), url(r'^change-password-done/$', 'profile.views.password_change_done', name='django.contrib.au

Re: newbie question regarding passwords and service requests

2011-03-23 Thread Shawn Milochik
It's not possible to have a system that can access another, yet block access to the other system if hacked. This is why it is impossible to have unbreakable encryption in consumer devices. You can't make a Blu-Ray player that doesn't contain the capability to decrypt Blu-Ray discs. Therefore, all

newbie question regarding passwords and service requests

2011-03-23 Thread Danny Shevitz
Howdy, This is a newbie question on best practices of web design and django. I have the following problem: Imagine my django app is wonderful and secure and uses the auth module and all that. I need to run some other web service provided by other developers in my company on another platform

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-04 Thread Alex Hall
On 3/4/11, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >> Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and >> changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and >> I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-04 Thread Karen Tracey
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and > changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and > I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place as > before, so my path was right, but

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place as before, so my path was right, but the .db extension seems to have made something quite happy

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
On 3/2/11, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, Alex Hall wrote: >> I get a very long traceback, ending with sqlite3.OperationalError: >> unable to open database file. > > looks like a permissions problem. Does the webserver have permissions to > write to the parent direct

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, Alex Hall wrote: > I get a very long traceback, ending with sqlite3.OperationalError: > unable to open database file. looks like a permissions problem. Does the webserver have permissions to write to the parent directory of the sqllite file? btw, it is good pra

newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have been working with Python for quite a while now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. I am in my last semester at college for a computer science degree, so I also have the background behind a lot of what Python does (objects, classes, all that). I am in a databases class and one requ

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 02:14 -0800, zedkil wrote: > Thank you very much for your kind explanations. > > Another question on the admin UI, can I customize the user page in the > admin > gui and add him some capabilities do some actions like get statistics > see > some graph and so on, and do this

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-14 Thread zedkil
Thank you very much for your kind explanations. Another question on the admin UI, can I customize the user page in the admin gui and add him some capabilities do some actions like get statistics see some graph and so on, and do this customization per level, or this is out of scope for the admin

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Okay er, there's a group model, where a group can belong to a parent group, and then the permissions for the children are inherited from the parent object, with the permissions specified on the child object being the overrides. I am looking to re-write this soon, so I will ask the client if they w

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread zedkil
Could you elaborate please ? -- 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 o

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
so if it not can someone direct > me to the right place. > > I'm newbie to django I'm planning new web App and I've some question since > I'm not sure if what i'm planning is possible at all. > > Short description of my app: > > I have hierarchy of

Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread zedkil
Hi all, I'm not sure if its the right place to ask, so if it not can someone direct me to the right place. I'm newbie to django I'm planning new web App and I've some question since I'm not sure if what i'm planning is possible at all. Short description o

Re: Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Hey, I did this *exact* same thing for a requirement of one of our clients. We used an inherited permissions model, but it will require you to make substantial changes to the authentication system, and doesn't just work "out of the box". Best thing to do is to write it up from scratch, then monke

Newbie Question

2011-02-13 Thread meni
I'm planning new web App. Short description of my app: I have hierarchy of: Company then under it the company subsidiary and each subsidiary as few clients each client has few sites and in each site I have few Apps. Company-> subsidiary1-> ClientX |

Re: Newbie problems with "get"

2011-02-11 Thread Greg
Thanks for heading me in the right direction. I had several errors in my urls.py. On Feb 11, 11:46 am, Shawn Milochik wrote: > Without testing it, I suspect the period in your 'request.GET' is the > problem. Try replacing it with request_get and see what happens. > > Shawn -- You received this

Re: Newbie problems with "get"

2011-02-11 Thread Shawn Milochik
Without testing it, I suspect the period in your 'request.GET' is the problem. Try replacing it with request_get and see what happens. 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@googl

Re: Newbie problems with "get"

2011-02-11 Thread Greg
Shawn see below. from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from mysite.my_clts import views #from mysite.books import views # Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin: from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^my_clts/$', 'my_clts.views.index

Re: Newbie problems with "get"

2011-02-11 Thread Shawn Milochik
Would you post your urls.py? It looks like the problem is in there. -- 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+u

Newbie problems with "get"

2011-02-11 Thread Greg
I am getting the bad charecter in group name error when using a form. Environment: Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/search-form/ Django Version: 1.2.3 Python Version: 2.7.1 Installed Applications: ['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessi

Re: cleaned_data not behaving how I expect it to. (newbie confusion)

2011-02-08 Thread Ion Ray Studios
Thanks for the "heads up". I actually was aware of this. When I'm trying to figure this kind of thing out, I start with the simplest problem and then add complications once I understand the fundamentals -- even if that means doing it the wrong way initially. Perhaps not the best approach...

Re: cleaned_data not behaving how I expect it to. (newbie confusion)

2011-02-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Ben Dembroski wrote: > My apologies to the list. > > I just noticed the commas at the end of the lines in the views.py > file. > > Once I got rid of those, all was much better. > > > Glad to hear it. BTW, you are expressly going against how django suggests you val

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