I have an app hosted by google app engine, and I am having trouble with authentication. When I login using my admin account and try to access the admin page or members pages, I just get a blank screen. I can login, and the members only menu shows when I login, but I just can't see any data from the members pages. I'm not really sure ...
I'm working on a RPG using django and am considering different options for implementing part of the skill system. Say I have a base skill class ie, something like: class Skill (models.Model): name = models.CharField() cost = models.PositiveIntegerField() blah blah blah What would be some approaches to implementing s...
Hey all, I'm using Django's markup package to transform restructuredText into html. Is there a way to customize the HTML writer to add a class attribute to each <p> tag? I could use the class directive for each paragraph, but I'd like to automate this process. For example, I want this restructured text: hello ===== A paragraph of t...
I've seen Pinax in the past and I'd like to use it today. It's on version 0.7. I wonder know if it's still in development. ...
I have a couple of simple objects that have a many-to-many relationship. Django has joined them using obj1_obj2 table and it looks like this in mysql; id | person_id | nationality_id ----------------------------------- 1 | 1 | 1 2 | 1 | 2 Now when I save obj1 (which shows obj2 in as Multi-...
I'm using the object_list generic view to quickly list a set of Articles. Each Article has comments attached to it. The query uses an annotation to Count() the number of comments and then order_by() that annotated number. 'queryset': Article.objects.annotate(comment_count=Count('comments')).order_by('-comment_count'), The comments a...
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I have a form with a ModelMultipleChoiceField() field. The form is used to send a message to user's friends. That means that instead of a generic queryset (e.g. Friends.objects.all()) I want to put something like queryset = user.friends.all(). Is this possible? ...
If I put this in my view: if slug == 'old-path': return HttpResponsePermanentRedirect('new-path') it skips my slugbased view and returns 404. How do I easily return 301 and "reprocess" my view so I don't get a 404? EDIT @Pydev UAs comment was the correct answer in this case, but I appreciated the detailed answer by John Debs, w...
The senior developer (and the only person experienced with Django in our company) has moved away and left us. Shortly after this (following his instructions) we pushed a site live onto a shared server (we have full control over the server) and updated the version of Django to the latest release for the new site to work. Since then we ha...
I have a Django app which has a single-account model. We are converting this to be multi-account, so almost every model will have a ForeignKey(Account). What is the easiest way to make sure that each Account (each account is in its own subdomain) can only access its own data? We have a middleware that populates the subdomain, and the cu...
I added a model to admin via admin.site.register, and it does not show up in admin. Sice admin is so "It just works", I have no idea of how to debug this. POinters? ...
Hello, I am working on a site in Python built on the back of Django(awesome framework, cant get my head around python), I looking to split a string that is returned from a database and I want it to be split when the first space occurs so I tried something like this, {{product.name.split(' ' ,1)}} This did not work and I get this st...
I was running Django Development server, and found same access message shown up again and again: [03/Dec/2009 21:02:30] "GET http://222.186.27.9/R.asp?P=58.50.245.72:8000 HTTP/1.1" 500 717 Traceback (most recent call last): File "d:\www\lib\django\django\core\servers\basehttp.py", line 279, in run self.result = application(self.envi...
Right now, if I want to check whether the current page is accessed through http:// or https://, I will use the following Javascript in my templates and write html from document.write: <script type="text/javascript"> var protocol = document.location.protocol; if (protocol == "http:") document.write("regular"); else document.write...
What is the best way to organize scraped data into a csv? More specifically each item is in this form url "firstName middleInitial, lastName - level - word1 word2 word3, & wordN practice officeCity." JD, schoolName, date Example: http://www.examplefirm.com/jang "Joe E. Ang - partner - privatization mergers, media & technology...
I'm rather stumped about the best way to build a Django query that checks if all the elements of a ManyToMany field (or a list) are present in another ManyToMany field. As an example, I have several Persons, who can have more than one Specialty. There are also Jobs that people can start, but they require one or more Specialties to be el...
Hello, Is it better to have 3 fields in django model, "first", "initial" and "last" or is it better to have "name" and put first name, last name and initial in the "name" field? If I put all three in one "name" field can I still search for last names? I am asking because it will be easier to extract the "first, initial, last" from the ...
Caught an exception while rendering: Reverse for 'products.views.'filter_by_led' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. I was able to successfully import products.views.filter_by_led from the shell and it worked so the path should be correct. Here is the urls.py: (r'^led-tv/$', filter_by_led ), This is where...
Hi, I'm using Django to create registration/payment application for a limited number of products. I want to create a timer so that when a user chooses to purchase a product, that product will then displayed as "already taken". But, if the user the user does not go through with the purchase and the timer runs out, the product goes ba...