If a django model is made abstract, like below, is there a way to inspect the class to determine that it is abstract? class MyModel(models.Model): class Meta: abstract = True I would expect that I could examine MyModel.Meta.abstract, but according to Django docs: Django does make one adjustment to the Meta class of an abstra...
Hi! I have a simple model with news and categories: class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField() slug = models.SlugField() class News(models.Model): category = models.ManyToManyField(Category) title = models.CharField() slug = models.SlugField() text = models.TextField() date = models.DateTimeFie...
Hi! I want to do something like this: Entries.objects.values('date.year','date.month') but this line is not valid. How can I list blog entries by year,month and display them in template? Thanks! ...
Hello, I need to import contacts of given email id/pwd from gmail,yahoo,hotmail,etc,etc for python/django app. Please suggest? - Thanks, Aamir hussain ...
DUPLICATE: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/981375/using-a-django-custom-model-method-property-in-orderby I have two models; one that stores posts and another that stores votes made on those posts, related using a ForeignKey field. Each vote is stored as a separate record since I need to track the user and datetime that the vote was...
Hi, Anyone knows how to combine flex and django on upload images? I used fileRefenrece in Flex but I don't know how to relat it with a View in Django. Thanks! [EDIT] I'm using flex and django to make a site where people have an login e some data, like an mini an intern orkut. In the server-side i build my views, models etc, in the clie...
I'm using the authentication that ships with django, and as such, it comes with its own SQL table. I have a few more attributes I'd like to use with the User model that are custom to my app such as a user photo or a random user blob where users can type in notes. what's the best way of extending the existing user table that ships with d...
I'm working on a Django app that interacts with an existing database (think ERP/transaction type data) to perform analysis. There will be minimal/no updating of the existing database mainly reading data in. Its just a simple small setup so no replication etc. issues to think about re. updating. The analysis would result in new records c...
At Django, a boolean field in MySQL is stored as a TINYINT. When I retrieve it, I get 0 or 1. Shouldn't I get False or True? Is there a way to achieve this behaviour? ...
Supose this portion of a Django template. regs is a list of Reg objects. Reg.editable is a BooleanField. I want to render a radio button per element in the list. If r.editable is False, the radio button must be disabled: {% for r in regs %} <input type="radio" value="{{ forloop.counter }}" {% if forloop.first %}checked="checked"{% endif...
Hi. After debugging for a while I found what the error was, but I don't know how to fix it. I have an urlConf whit the name 'ver_caja' who receives as argument the id of a caja object, and then call the generic object_detail. The queryset is correct: get all the caja objects correctly. In the template I have the call: {% ver_caja caja...
I have an application running with debug=True on a remote host somewhere. Now somehow every time I access REMOTE_ADDR it returns 127.0.0.1 no matter where the request is from. I'm not sure where to start and why this is happening. ...
I want to do something like this: # models.py class Model(models.Model): name_in_my_model = models.CharField(max_length=100) # later fieldname = 'name_in_my_model' # this is what I want to do somehow: obj = Model.objects.get(pk=1) obj.fieldname = 'new name' obj.save() Is this possible? I'm making a reusable application, and ...
Application running in django, apache, python and mysql: I want to create global variable which I should be able to update from external python script may be using a cron job. The the solution I think of... is having a webpage which updates that variable and then call this through a python script. Any cleaner solutions? ...
Let's say I have a class structure that is defined below: Class Item(models.Model): ... price = models.IntegerField() upc = models.IntegerField() ... Class Store(models.Model): ... inventory = models.ManyToManyField(Item) ... Basically I want store models to have access to the same inventory. However the v...
Greetings, I have a question on how to update an existing row in my database when one of the fields is my primary key. I am using ModelForm and Django-Piston - my main goal here is to have RESTful Post send to my webservice. I am able to have initial Posts be sent correctly (i.e. that Primary key value doesn't exist yet). The problem is...
Hi, How can I create an application scope variable which is loaded when the django app starts, be in memory and accessible by all. Basically I want to reuse the variable through out the application without reloading it. Thanks ...
Just installed Django (with easy_install) and created a project, but can't get mysql to work. python manage.py syncdb throws this error: ..... File "/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.6.egg/django/db/backends/mysql/base.py", line 13, in <module> raise ImproperlyConfigured("Error loading MySQLdb module: %s" % e)...
Hello, Typically, I have a really simple cart with some items in it, with a quantity. I wish to do something like this : SELECT SUM(price * quantity) as total FROM products WHERE product_id IN (1,2,3,4); But how can I bind the quantity with the product_id since quantity is not in the database ? Is there any other way to do this wit...
In my front page template I use the cache function like this: {% cache 86400 my_posts %} {% get_latest_posts %} {% endcache %} When there is a new post I would like to expire the cache key; like this: def clear_post_cache(): cache.delete('my_posts') post_save.connect(clear_post_cache, sender=Post) My problem is that the ca...