N.B This question has been significantly edited before the first answer was given. Hi, I'm fairly new to django, so apologies if I'm missing something obvious. I've got a urls.py file that looks like this: urlpatterns = patterns( '', (r'^$', 'faros.lantern.views.home_page'), (r'^login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login'...
What is the best way to have many children records pointing to one parent record in the same model/table in Django? Is this implementation correct?: class TABLE(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) parent = models.ForeignKey("TABLE", unique=False) ...
I exported the path of my django project by $ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=/Users/masi/Documents/Test/djangobook/ch3.settings I run unsuccessfully $ django-admin.py runserver Error: Could not import settings '/Users/masi/Documents/Test/djangobook/ch3.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): Import by filename is ...
Problem: to find the Python module execute_manager in the class django.core.management. The question is related to another question of mine. I am trying to start my server by python manage.py runserver The command is dependent on manage.py. The file imports the module execute_manager from the class django.core.management as follows...
I have a form with a choice field that is using CheckboxSelectMultiple widget: foo = forms.ChoiceField(widget=forms.CheckboxSelectMultiple, choices=( ("1", "ONE"), ("2", "TWO"), )) The form renders fine showing ...
I'm currently developing a Django application which will make use of the infamous "pagination" technique. I'm trying to figure out how the django.core.paginator module works. I have an application with a Question model. I will be listing all of the questions using this paginator. There will be 20 questions per page. def show_questio...
I'm interested in testing the performance of my django apps as I go, what is the best way to get line by line performance data? note: Googling this returns lots of people benchmarking django itself. I'm not looking for a benchmarks of django, I'm trying to test the performance of the django apps that I'm writing :) Thanks! edit: By "l...
Is there any way to group the models in django admin interface? I currently have an app called requests with the following models showing in the admin site: **Requests** Divisions Hardware Requests Hardware Types Requests Software Requests Software Types I would like the divisions, Software Requests and Hardware Requests to be groupe...
I have a model which is essentially just a string (django.db.models.CharField). There will only be several instances of this model stored. How could I use those values as choices in a form? To illustrate, the model could be BlogTopic. I'd like to offer users the ability to choose one or several topics to subscribe to. I started writing...
You know how django passwords are stored like this: sha1$a1976$a36cc8cbf81742a8fb52e221aaeab48ed7f58ab4 and that is the "hashtype $salt $hash". My question is, how do they get the $hash? Is it the password and salt combined and then hashed or is something else entirely? ...
First, some background information... I'm coming up on a medium-scale website for a non-profit that will require both English and Korean translations. Feature-set includes: CMS for normal content, a blog, some form submission/handling (including CSV/PDF exports), a job posting board, a directory of related businesses and non-profits (tha...
I have a model called Question and another one called Answer. class Question(models.Model): text = models.CharField(max_length=140) class Answer(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) question = models.ForeignKey(Question) uncertain = models.BooleanField() text = models.CharField(max_length=30) Now I'd lik...
We just now started doing the A/B testing for our Django based project. Can I get some information on best practices or useful insights about this A/B testing. Ideally each new testing page will be differentiated with a single parameter(just like Gmail). mysite.com/?ui=2 should give a different page. So for every view I need to write a...
I have a model that has an ordering field under its Meta class. When I perform a query and get back a QuerySet for the model it is in the order specified. However if I have instances of this model that are in a list and execute the sort method on the list the order is different from the one I want. Is there a way to sort a list of in...
Ok, so here's the skinny: # models.py class Article( models.Model ): title = models.CharField( max_length = 255 ) author = models.ForeignKey( User ) published_at = models.DateTimeField( auto_now_add = True ) body = models.TextField( ) def __unicode__( self ): return self.titl...
Can a middleware check to see if a value is in the url, such as an image id ("/image/152/"), and if it is then do some checks to make sure the current user has permission to view that image and if not redirect to another url? I had to roll my own permissions for this site I am working on and I don't want to clog up almost every view I w...
Suppose I have a model: class SomeModel(models.Model): id = models.AutoField(primary_key=True) a = models.CharField(max_length=10) b = models.CharField(max_length=7) Currently I am using the defauly admin to create/edit objects of this type. How do I remove the field b from the admin so that each object cannot be created w...
There is a lot of documentation on how to serialize a Model QuerySet but how do you just serialize to json the fields of a Model Instance? ...
Has anyone setup django-paypal? Here is the link to it: [here][1]? I have "myproject" setup, and my folder sturecture looks like this: myproject > paypal > (stdandard and pro folders) to my settins.py file I added INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'myproject.paypal.standard', 'myproject.paypal.pro', ) in my url's file for my account app ...
so I have this model: class Message(models.Model): creator = models.ForeignKey(User, unique=True) note = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=True) recipients = models.ManyToManyField(User, related_name="shared_to") read = models.ManyToManyField(User, related_name="read", blank=True) I want to filter on people who ar...