The below class inherits from the Textarea widget and features javascript code that displays how many characters more a user can enter in a textarea. class TextAreaWithCharCounter(forms.Textarea): class Media: js = ('js/jquery.charcounter.js',) def render(self, name, value, attrs = None): id = attrs['id'] ...
I have a object with a many-to-many relation with another object. In the Django Admin this results in a very long list in a multiple select box. I'd like to filter the ManyToMany relation so I only fetch Categories that is available in the City that the Customer have selected. Is this possible? Will I have to create a widget for it? An...
I want to look for a certain string in several fields of a Model in Django. Ideally, it would go something similar to: keyword = 'keyword' fields = ['foo', 'bar', 'baz'] results = [] for field in fields: lookup = "%s__contains" results.append(Item.objects.filter(lookup=keyword)) Of course this won't work, as "lookup" can't be ...
First question: What is your favorite Django book or online learning material? CodeProject examples + Django documentation, O'Reilly, etc. Second Question: What are some good tips and advice you have picked up along the way which helps you to use Django more effectively? Certain design patterns, language idioms, frameworks which tie ...
I have file locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/django.mo (and .po), ran makemessages and compilemessages. Definitely all messages are translated in settings.py have: USE_I18N = True LANGUAGE_CODE = 'es' Still django stubbornly takes strings from the english .po file... Why can that be? There must be some gotcha... Thanks. EDIT this appears to b...
Hi SO, I have created a complex E-R diagram for a django site I'm developing. It maps to 11 tables in the database. The site has many features, so I would like to split it into multiple apps. The Django manual said that Django apps should be pluggable, but if I split the models into many apps, they would be dependant on each other. Is t...
I was hoping that Django had a built in way of getting the last url that was visited in the app itself. As I write this I realize that there are some complications in doing something like that (excluding pages that redirect, for example) but i thought I'd give it a shot. if there isn't a built-in for this, what strategy would you use...
I have a django model called Blog. I'd like to add a field to my current model that is for last_modified_date. I know how to set a default value, but I would like somehow for it to get automatically updated anytime I modify the blog entry via the admin interface. Is there some way to force this value to the current time on each adm...
I don't like models.User, but I like Admin view, and I will keep admin view in my application. How to overwirte models.User ? Make it just look like following: from django.contrib.auth.models import User class ShugeUser(User) username = EmailField(uniqute=True, verbose_name='EMail as your username', ...) email = CharField(...
Busy playing with django, but one thing seems to be tripping me up is following a foreign key relationship. Now, I have a ton of experience in writing SQL, so i could prob. return the result if the ORM was not there. Basically this is the SQL query i want returned Select table1.id table1.text table1.user table2.user_name tab...
I need to import some data from a excel file and a folder with images, every row in the excel describes every entry and have a list of filenames in the folder (photos related to the entry). I've done a script which creates every entry in the database and saves it trough the django shell, but i have no idea how to instantiate a InMemoryU...
Greetings I am trying to find a way to implement "view only user group" for selected models at the django admin site. In details, when a selected user of a group logs in, he/she can only browse and see allowed model entries. Thanks ...
Hello all you Google App Engine experts, I have used Django a little before but am new to Google App Engine and am trying to use it's development web server with Django for the first time. I don't know if this is relevent but I previously had Django 1.1 and Python 2.6 on my Windows XP and even though I have uninstalled Python 2.6 ...
In Rails, there's an environments variable called RAILS_ENV that tells you which environment you're in. Other than creating my own environment variable, is there a default one that tells you which environment you are in in Django? ...
Can I install Pinax on Windows Environment? Is there a easy way? Which environment do you recommend? ...
Good Morning All, I've been a PHP programmer for quite some time, but I've felt the need to move more towards the Python direction and what's better than playing around with Django. While in the process, I'm come to a stopping point where I know there is an easy solution, but I'm just missing it - How do I display manytomany relationsh...
I've recently uploaded an app that uses django appengine patch and currently have a cron job that runs every two minutes. On each invocation of the worker url it consumes quite a bit of resources /worker_url 200 7633ms 34275cpu_ms 28116api_ms That is because on each invocation it does a cold zipimport of all the libraries django etc...
In Django, I want to stop any file uploads that don't end in my designated extension as soon as they're received. To do this, I define a custom Upload Handler and write new_file to look something like this: def new_file(self, field_name, file_name, content_type, content_length, charset=None): basename, extension = os.path.splitext(file...
I installed Django for the first time yesterday and trying it out in earnest today. I'm only planning to use it for the beautiful admin interface, Zend Framework for the rest. I imported an existing table event into the admin. There's no join needed. But the primary key is not 'id' it's called "event" (following this naming convention)....
i'm running on wsgi on centos 5... i've recently updated locally from 1.0 to 1.1 I updated the server using svn update now when I apply a new app developed locally to the server it returns with a 500 error. all i'm doing is python manage.py startapp appname adding the app into installed_apps in the settings file and uploading thi...