Django view points to a function, which can be a problem if you want to change only a bit of functionality. Yes, I could have million keyword arguments and even more if statements in the function, but I was thinking more of an object oriented approach. For example, I have a page that displays a user. This page is very similar to page th...
I have been using django a great deal lately and would like to find a home to host my apps. What is the best django web host? (Official django support preferred) Which service has the lowest price (without a long contract)?...
My company is in the process of starting down the Grails path. The reason for that is that the current developers are heavy on Java but felt the need for a MVC-style language for some future web development projects. Personally, I'm coming from the design/usability world, but as I take more "front-end" responsibilities I'm starting to fe...
I'm currently looking at the Python framework Django for future db-based web apps as well as for a port of some apps currently written in PHP. One of the nastier issues during my last years was keeping track of database schema changes and deploying these changes to productive systems. I haven't dared asking for being able to undo them to...
I've got two models: Message and Attachment. Each attachment is attached to a specific message, using a ForeignKey on the Attachment model. Both models have an auto_now DateTimeField called updated. I'm trying to make it so that when any attachment is saved, it also sets the updated field on the associated message to now. Here's my code:...
I have a collection of objects in a database. Images in a photo gallery, products in a catalog, chapters in a book, etc. Each object is represented as a row. I want to be able to arbitrarily order these images, storing that ordering in the database so when I display the objects, they will be in the right order. For example, let's say...
The title more or less says it all. How do I go about specifying and using an ENUM in a Django model? ...
I know Hostmonster allows Python. Has anyone successfully run Django on there? Any problems? ...
I stumbled over this passage in the Django tutorial: Django models have a default str() method that calls unicode() and converts the result to a UTF-8 bytestring. This means that unicode(p) will return a Unicode string, and str(p) will return a normal string, with characters encoded as UTF-8. Now, I'm confused because afaik Unicode...
I'm about to deploy a mediumsized site powered by Django. I have a dedicated Ubuntu Server. I'm really confused over which serversoftware to use. So i thought to myself: why not ask stackoverflow. What i'm looking for is: Easy to set up Fast and easy on resources Can serve mediafiles Able to serve multiple djangosites on same server...
I have a tree structure in memory that I would like to render in HTML using a Django template. class Node(): name = "node name" children = [] There will be some object root that is a Node, and children is a list of Nodes. root will be passed in the content of the template. I have found this one discussion of how this might be ac...
In the transition to newforms admin I'm having difficulty figuring out how specify core=False for ImageFields. I get the following error: TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'core' [Edit] However, by just removing the core argument I get a "This field is required." error in the admin interface on attempted submis...
I'm using Google App Engine and Django Templates. I have a table that I want to display the objects look something like: Object Result: Items = [item1,item2] Users = [{name='username',item1=3,item2=4},..] The django template is: <table> <tr align="center"> <th>user</th> {% for item in result.items %} <th>{{item}}</th> {%...
I'm considering using Django for a project I'm starting (fyi, a browser-based game) and one of the features I'm liking the most is using syncdb to automatically create the database tables based on the Django models I define (a feature that I can't seem to find in any other framework). I was already thinking this was too good to be true w...
I have been sold on mod_wsgi and apache rather than mod_python. I have all the parts installed (django, apache, mod_wsgi) but have run into a problem deploying. I am on osx 10.5 with apache 2.2 and django 1.0b2, mod_wsgi-2.3 My application is called tred. Here are the relevant files: httpd-vhosts (included in httpd-conf) NameVirtual...
Currently, I am writing up a bit of a product-based CMS as my first project. Here is my question. How can I add additional data (products) to my Product model? I have added '/admin/products/add' to my urls.py, but I don't really know where to go from there. How would i build both my view and my template? Please keep in mind that I don'...
How can I use the nifty JavaScript date and time widgets that the default admin uses with my custom view? I have looked through http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/forms/, and it brefly mentions django.contrib.admin.widgets, but I don't know how to use it? Here is my template that I want it applied on. <form action="." meth...
I am doing a series of Django screencasts. I am just curious: what kind of topics do you want to see covered in relation to Django or Python? ...
I am working on a small intranet site for a small company, where user should be able to post. I have imagined a very simple authentication mechanism where people just enter their email address, and gets sent a unique login url, that sets a cookie that will always identify them for future requests. In my template setup, I have base.html,...
In the django template language, you can use {% url [viewname] [args] %} to generate a url to a specific view with parameters. How can you programatically do the same in python code? What I need is to create a list of menu items, each item has name, url, and active (whether it's the current page or not). This because it will be a lot cl...