What do you guys recommend in the way of a forum app that can be dropped into my Django project? I found this page: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ForumAppsComparison But looking for some recommendations. Thanks. ...
Apparently, the way Django flatpages works is that it handles the 404 thrown by other apps. I was wondering if I could do another flatpages-type app that gets a crack at the 404 before flatpages does. I tried this without success so far. A template gets rendered but the data doesn't come through. Is it even possible? ...
// Don't know if it sould be community-wiki, it's for a proffessional advice, although can be subjective depending on various experience. Recently I had opportunities to get some casual freelance gigs, but most of them were marked with the popular technology keywords (f.ex. php/mysql/ezpublish). I understood the specification of the app...
I have something like this in models.py class ZipCode(models.Model): zip = models.CharField(max_length=20) cities = City.objects.filter(zip=self).distinct() class City(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) slug = models.CharField(max_length=50) state = models.ForeignKey(State) zip = models.ManyToManyField(ZipCode) Whe...
I know that SimplePie itself is derived from UFP, but the features I'm wondering about are the post-processing features that are available in SimplePie for WordPress plugin: http://simplepie.org/wiki/plugins/wordpress/simplepie_plugin_for_wordpress/processing Can I find something similar to this for my Django application? Can this be ...
I have the following models: class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40) class Item(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40) category = models.ForeignKey(Category) class Demo(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40) category = models.ForeignKey(Category) item =...
Is it possible to intersect 2 querysets: SphinxQuerySet and normal django's QuerySet ? I need to filter SphynxQuerySet by ordinary django's filters. What the best way to do that? I try go this direction: ids = [] for obj in Object.search.query(query).all(): ids += [obj.id] qs = Object.objects.all().filter(id__in=ids).filter(s...
Now I have this code: class Mymodel(models.Model): xxxx_count = ForeignCountField(filter={'foreign_table__xxxx': True}) yyyy_count = ForeignCountField(filter={'foreign_table__yyyy': True}) zzzz_count = ForeignCountField(filter={'foreign_table__zzzz': True}) qqqq_count = ForeignCountField(filter={'foreign_table__qqqq': Tr...
I have 2 models: ParentModel: 'just' sits there ChildModel: has a foreign key to ParentModel ParentModel.objects.filter(childmodel__in=ChildModel.objects.all()) gives multiple occurrences of ParentModel. How do I query all ParentModels that have at least one ChildModel that's referring to it? And without multiple occurrences... ...
I have a Django view, which receives part of its data from an external website, which I parse using urllib2/BeautifulSoup. This operation is rather expensive so I cache it using the low-level cache API, for ~5 minutes. However, each user which accesses the site after the cached data expires will receive a significant delay of a few seco...
I'm trying to make a Django function for JSON serializing something and returning it in an HttpResponse object. def json_response(something): data = serializers.serialize("json", something) return HttpResponse(data) I'm using it like this: return json_response({ howdy : True }) But I get this error: "bool" object has no at...
I have a form in which the user selects a few items to display on "the following page". This selection is always unique, and we will store each set of selections made using a model, indexed by the id as is par with Django models. When the user selects her choices and POSTs using the submit button, I would like for our application to stor...
If I run this where vote.created_on is a python datetime: import calendar created_on_timestamp = calendar.timegm(vote.created_on.timetuple())*1000 created_on_timestamp = str(created_on_timestamp) created_on_timestamp will be printed with encapsulating tick marks ('). If I do int() or something like that, I'll get something like 12408...
Firstly, here's my script: #!/usr/bin/python import sys, os sys.path.append('/home/username/python') sys.path.append("/home/username/python/flup") sys.path.append("/home/username/python/django") # more path stuff os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "project.settings" from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi runfastcgi(me...
In PHP, I would do this to get name as an array. <input type"text" name="name[]" /> <input type"text" name="name[]" /> Or if I wanted to get name as an associative array: <input type"text" name="name[first]" /> <input type"text" name="name[last]" /> What is the Django equivalent for such things? ...
With inspectdb I was able to get a "interval" field from postgres into django. In Django, it was a TextField. The object that I retrieved was indeed a timedelta object! Now I want to put this timedelta object in a new model. What's the best way to do this? Because putting a timedelta in a TextField results in the str version of the obje...
i needed a same funactional: authentificated users can add groups(if have permissions), add users (users added in groups that he create) and add permissions for groups or users. What are the best way for solve that task? ...
This is a great primer but doesn't answer what I need: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/464342/combining-two-sorted-lists-in-python I have two Python lists, each is a list of datetime,value pairs: list_a = [['1241000884000', 3], ['1241004212000', 4], ['1241006473000', 11]] And: list_x = [['1241000884000', 16], ['1241000992000', 16...
I am using FCKEditor within a Django app served by Apache/mod-wsgi. I don't want to install php just for FCKEditor andI see FCKEditor offers image uploading and image browsing through Python. I just haven't found good instructions on how to set this all up. So currently Django is running through a wsgi interface using this setup: impor...
Is it posible to notify user that session has expired? Can browser act as server and receive such notifications? One solution would be to generate JavaScript that does countdown on client side and notifies client in the end, but I am iterested if it is postible to do it the first way? And what are the consequences of first approach? A...