For school, I have made a CMS in django for my major assessment task for Software. My teacher has asked to get the source code and, if applicable, the program compiled. Now, because i dont want my teacher to install django (Something might go wrong, he may get a different version, missing dependences), how can i package up my django app...
How add custom field dynamicly? I'm trying that, but the field won't insert into database when I sync db: #It use as register(MyModel) def register(model, attr="my_attr"): if model in registry: raise AlreadyRegistered( _('The model %s has already been registered.') % model.__name__) registry.append(model) ...
I am writing views, not so keen to write templates right away. But I need to test my program by submitting post requests. How do i simulate HTTP Post from within a django view I am aware that urllib2 and httplib modules of python allow a lot of options, but I am looking for something that elegantly integrates into the django views. ...
Hello! I am exploring file/images uploads in Django. I have a model with Photo class which has thumb ImageField. I uploaded thumb with admin panel and I made template which just gives <img src='{{photo.thumb.url}}' />. Unfortunately I don't get any images and when I try to get direct link it says "page not found". It seems that django e...
I just wrote one of my first web applications (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Django), and would like to launch it publicly. It's a webform-based task disguised as a game; I intend to eventually put it on Amazon Mechanical Turk and give small bonuses to people who achieve certain scores. Even though this app does not have a tremendously high sec...
Before Django 1.0 there was an easy way to get the admin url of an object, and I had written a small filter that I'd use like this: <a href="{{ object|admin_url }}" .... > ... </a> Basically I was using the url reverse function with the view name being 'django.contrib.admin.views.main.change_stage' reverse( 'django.contrib.admin.views....
Let's say that I have a system that has some pages that are public (both non-authenticated users and logged-in users can view) and others which only logged-in users can view. I want the template to show slightly different content for each of these two classes of pages. The @login_required view decorator is always used on views which on...
I am trying to get my Django app (NOT using Google app engine) retrieve data from Google Contacts using Google Contacts Data API. Going through authentication documentation as well as Data API Python client docs First step (AuthSubRequest) which is getting the single-use token works fine. The next step(AuthSubSessionToken), which is upg...
If the app/views.py file gets very large, should I separate it? If so, what is the best way to do this? ...
Given a class C in Python, how can I determine which file the class was defined in? I need something that can work from either the class C, or from an instance off C. The reason I am doing this, is because I am generally a fan off putting files that belong together in the same folder. I want to create a class that uses a Django template...
Is there any advantage to using Django instead of ASP.NET MVC other than I might not want to use Windows and IIS? I don't mean this as a religious type debate. I honestly don't know of any reasons other than personal preference but want to confirm this. For example, I might have only Microsoft products and be well versed in asp.net an...
I often show messages about user actions to logged in users in my Django app views using: request.user.message_set.create("message to user") How could I do the same for anonymous (not logged in) users? There is no request.user for anonymous users, but the Django documentation says that using the "session" middleware you can do the sa...
I want to raise error when a user tries to delete an object when some other users are active in update_object view. I feel some sort of mutex-like locking mechanism is needed for that. Do you have any suggestions? ...
Consider: >>>jr.operators.values_list('id') [(1,), (2,), (3,)] How does one simplify further to: ['1', '2', '3'] The purpose: class ActivityForm(forms.ModelForm): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super(ActivityForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) if self.initial['job_record']: jr = JobRecord.ob...
Sometimes self.start is unicode: eg. >>>self.start u'07:30:00' Which makes datetime.combine complain start = datetime.combine(self.job_record.date, self.start) How does one: Test for unicode? Convert from u'07:30:00' to datetime.time? ...
Guys, I have a hidden section in my Html template (Am using Django templates), the hidden section is a login form, i want when a user clicks some login text(link), the html text hidding the form should slide downwards revealing the form. I have a feeling this can be done in Javascript! Am using django, please give step by step details...
I want to give users access to WebDav using Apache, but I want to autenticate them first and give each user access to a specific folder. All authentication must be done against a Django-based database. I can get the Django-authentication working myself, but I need help with the part where I authenticate each user and provide them with a ...
Hello! I have made a function that connects to a models 'pre_save' signal. Inside the function I am trying to check if the model instance's pk already exists in the table with: sender.objects.get(pk=instance._get_pk_val()) The first instance of the model raises an error. I catch the error and generate a slug field from the title. In a...
I've pretty much tried every Python web framework that exists, and it took me a long time to realize there wasn't a silver bullet framework, each had its own advantages and disadvantages. I started out with Snakelets and heartily enjoyed being able to control almost everything at a lower level without much fuss, but then I discovered Tur...
Got an interesting dilemna here as I've tried to create an autocomplete widget for my Django app. The basic structure of the model is that I have 1 .. * Orders that each belong to a single Vendor. Since we have many Vendors I decided to make it an autocomplete widget instead of a big selectbox dropdown. With that in mind, I came up wit...