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Django template timezone in :date filter - is abbreviation possible?

If I write {{some_time|date:"h:i A T"}} in a django template, it outputs "12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time". I would prefer the short timezone format "EDT". Any way you can do this? ...

django south ValueError: "you cannot instantiate a stub model"

so i'm trying to do a data migration where i take the "listings" from a realestate app into a new "listings" app that i've created. i did startmigration like this: python manage.py startmigration listings migrate_listings --freeze realestate created a blank migration, which i populated with this: def forwards(self, orm): "Wr...

django Jquery ajax request 404 error

I'm hoping someone can help me here. I can't get make a successful ajax call using django, jquery and the jquery form validation plugin. I'm trying to pass a form email address to a view method to see if it exists in db. But server response is 404 on ajax request. In Firebug i can see the request being sent appears to be formatted proper...

Django: Model name clash

I am trying to use different open source apps in my project. Problem is that there is a same Model name used by two different apps with their own model definition. I tried using: class Meta: db_table = "db_name" but it didn't work. I am still getting field name clash error at syncdb. Any suggestions. Update I am actual...

Tiered shipping problem in Satchmo

When I try to use the tiered shipping module in my store, I get the following error: TypeError at /shop/checkout/dummy/ object.__init__() takes no parameters Request Method: GET Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/shop/checkout/dummy/ Exception Type: TypeError Exception Value: object.__init__() takes no parameters ...

Remote access to Django ORM

Maybe I should first give an idea of what I want to accomplish as there might be a much better solution. I have a web application using Django that manages media (Recorded TV, movies, etc). The web app allows you to add meta data to the media such as what you have watched on a per user basis and allows you to perform searches and synchr...

How to automatically create postgis database for Django testing?

I'm trying to test my Django apps which run on a postgis database, by following this doc: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/ Normally I create a new database by copying a template: (as user postgres) createdb -T template_postgis -O lizard test_geodjango2 When I run ./manage.py test, I get the following mess...

Django ORM: query of two models

Hi I have 2 models I use this models to show the avatar in comments. django_comments: user_id comment ..... myapp_profile user_id image_path ...... Actually i´m doing a raw query with cursor.execute(), to get this data ------- ---------- ------- 'user_id' 'image_path' 'comment' ------- ---------- ------- ...

Custom Managers and "through"

Hi I have a many-to-many relationship in my django application where I use the "add" method of the manager pretty heavily (ie album.photos.add() ). I find myself needing to store some data about the many-to-many relationship now, but I don't want to lose the add method. Can I just set a default value for all the additional fields on th...

Django Object Manager Problem

So here's a question for a Django wizard. I am inheriting an object Manager something along the lines as follows: class MyObjManager(models.Manager): def total_values(self, myobj_id): return 49 def what_the_heck(self, poll_id): return 48 class TestMe(): def what_the_heck(self, poll_id...

How can I access the data in a Django form field form a view?

I have a simple Django Form: class testForm(forms.Form): list = forms.CharField() def getItems(self): #How do I do this? Access the data stored in list. return self.list.split(",") #This doesn't work The list form field stores a csv data value. From an external instance of testForm in a view, I want to be able to look a...

Django: The best practice to implement CRUD outside the contrib.admin

Hi all :) I'm currently developing a Blog project using Post model, which will be used by multiple authors. I want to make an admin/control-panel interface where each author of the Post can view the Post list the author created (so he won't see the Post created by the other authors), edit, and multiple-delete them. http://stackoverflo...

DJANGO - How do you access the current model instance from inside a form.

class EditAdminForm(forms.ModelForm): password = username.CharField(widget=forms.TextInput()) password = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput()) password_confirm = forms.CharField(widget=forms.PasswordInput(), initial=???) You can see what I'm trying to do here. How would I go about pre-populating the pasword_confirm ...

OpenID in django without local site accounts

I'm working on a django site, which I want the authentication part to work exactly like how Stack Overflow works. A new user comes to the site, they click on "create new account", choose their OpenID provider, get validated, then an account is created for them with "openiduser4356" or something as the username. The user can then go into ...

Get name for matched URL pattern

I am writing a Django context processor which needs to access the name of the URL pattern that the request got successfully resolved against. Given the pattern, url(r'^home/$', 'app.index', name='website.home') and the request path /home, I want to get the value for name, which in this case is website.home. I got this code from djan...

a simple django jquery location question

I'm setting up a django project for the first time and I want to use jQuery. Is the idea that I just create a media folder, stick jquery in it and then point MEDIA_ROOT to it? Any suggestions for a good standard location for the media folder? ...

Get the index of an element in a queryset

Hi I have a QuerySet, let's call it qs, which is ordered by some attribute which is irrelevant to this problem. Then I have an object, let's call it obj. Now I'd like to know at what index obj has in qs, as efficiently as possible. I know that I could use .index() from Python or possibly loop through qs comparing each object to obj, bu...

Django unit testing with date/time-based objects

Suppose I have the following Event model: from django.db import models import datetime class Event(models.Model): date_start = models.DateField() date_end = models.DateField() def is_over(self): return datetime.date.today() > self.date_end I want to test Event.is_over() by creating an Event that ends in the futur...

django directory layout explanation

So I have a django project I just created called 'coolprojectsite' the directory structure looks something as follows: * media (dir) * mytemplates (dir) * * admin (dir) * * coolprojects (dir) * coolprojectsite (dir) * * coolproject (dir) * * * __init__.py * * * admin.py * * * models.py * * * tests.py * * * urls.py * * * views.py * * __i...

django jquery ready event not firing

I have a django project, but for some reason basic jquery isn't working. <html> <head> <link href="/site_media/css/poll.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <script type="text/javascript" src="/site_media/js/jquery-1.3.2.js" /> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ ...