How do I find the previous Monday's date, based off of the current date using Python? I thought maybe I could use: datetime.weekday() to do it, but I am getting stuck. I basically want to find today's date and Mondays date to construct a date range query in django using: created__range=(start_date, end_date). ...
I have a web site which shows different content based on a location the visitor chooses. e.g: User enters in 55812 as the zip. I know what city and area lat/long. that is and give them their content pertinent to that area. My question is how can I store this in a cookie so that when they return they are not required to always enter their...
In django, when a URL is matched, the match group is passed as a second parameter to the view function, the first being a HttpRequest object. For example, with a URL patter like this '/foo/(\d{2})/', 'app.views.handler' the handler routine will have def handler(request, value): where value will contain a two digit number (as a stri...
I know the benefits of Psyco for a Desktop app, but in a Web app where a process ( = a web page or an AJAX call) dies immediately after been fired, isn't it pointless ? ...
I want to start processing some files from a django view and I want to be able to send the name of the files to the browser as they are processed. Is there a way to do this (easily)? I could probably do this using threads and ajax calls, but I want the simplest solution for now. ...
I am writing a web application for my engineering company (warning: I am a programmer only by hobby) and was planning on using Django until I hit this snag. The models I want to use naturally have multi-column primary keys. Per http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373, I can't use Django, at least not a released version. Can anyone help ...
Where should the validation of model fields go in django? I could name at least two possible choices: in the overloaded .save() method of the model or in the .to_python() method of the models.Field subclass (obviously for that to work you must write custom fields). Possible use cases: when it is absolutely neccessary to ensure, that ...
I have a form with this inputs: <input name="person[name]" value=""> <input name="person[surname]" value=""> <input name="person[age]" value=""> when I submit, how can i assign that html array to a variable, cause request.POST.getlist('person') doesn't work, i been checking for other post but the only one i found doesn't have anything...
Every Django model has a default primary-key id created automatically. I want the model objects to have another attribute big_id which is calculated as: big_id = id * SOME_CONSTANT I want to access big_id as model_obj.big_id without the corresponding database table having a column called big_id. Is this possible? ...
A Django newbie question: What is the recommended way of handling settings for local development and the production server? Some of them (like Constants, etc) can be changed/accessed in both, but some of them (like paths to static files) need to remain different, and hence should not be overwritten everytime the new code is deployed... ...
I've been implementing caching in my django application, and used per view caching via the cache API and template fragment caching. On some of my pages I use a custom django template tag, this tag is provided via a third party developer, it takes some arguments in its template tags, and then make a request to a remote server, gets the re...
I want to make sure all of my flatpages have the "www" subdomain and redirect to it if they don't. I've looked at some middlewares that redirect to www, but 1. they usually redirect all urls to www and 2. the ones I've found don't work with flatpages. I don't want all of my site urls to redirect to include the www subdomian, just the...
Hi, I'm going to be honest: this is a question I asked on the Django-Users mailinglist last week. Since I didn't get any replies there yet, I'm reposting it on Stack Overflow in the hope that it gets more attention here. I want to create an app that makes it easy to do user friendly, multiple / mass file upload in your own apps. With u...
I'm trying to do a transition from MySQL to SQLite for a small site. django-tagging is used for one of the models. For the transition I'm using the dumpdata loaddata method. The dumpdata command works fine to export everything from the MySQL database into JSON. When I try to run the loaddata command for the SQLite database, I get this ...
Hey guys, So I got a simple setup with nginx for static media and load balancing and tornado as webserver for django (4 servers running). My problem is remote_addr not getting passed on to django so I'm getting a KeyError: article.ip = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR'] The remote address is getting sent through as X-Real-IP (HTTP_X_REAL_IP)...
I'm trying to import sorl-thumbnail into my app in django. Now the way that i have the site set up, using mod_wsgi on centos5 with cpanel the path for the apps must have the project name when importing... which is a pain. Obviously this is a cause of concern with portability of the app. I'm importing sorl-thumbnail, in previous apps i'v...
I have a query that gets me 32 avatar images from my avatar application: newUserAv = Avatar.objects.filter(valid=True)[:32] I'd like to combine this with a query to django's Auth user model, so I can get the last the last 32 people, who have avatar images, sorted by the date joined. What is the best way to chain these two together? ...
I am working to use django's ContentType framework to create some generic relations for a my models; after looking at how the django developers do it at django.contrib.comments.models I thought I would imitate their approach/conventions: from django.contrib.comments.models, line 21): content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType, ...
Hello, I am trying to do a model with a file that shouldn't be modified. But the comment of the file can be. Here is what I did, but we cannot modify the comment. How can I test if a new file (using the browse button) as been sent and in this case only, create a new instance of the model ? If no upload of a new file, update the comment...
Hello, I haven't exactly found the answer to this, maybe there is no best one. Django docs are not clear on this thing. I'm not sure what is a good practice to set up a django project. Sure I have re-usable apps. But I always need some glue-code. I find myself always creating "core" app for each project, which usually serves homepape....