django

How to catch Django request.GET error?

This view works when the query is in the database. def search(request): if 'q' in request.GET and request.GET['q']: q = request.GET['q'] q_school = Lawyer.objects.filter(last__icontains=q).values_list('school', flat=True) q_year = Lawyer.objects.filter(last__icontains=q).values_list('year_graduated', flat=Tru...

django order by related field

Hi, I want to sort a QuerySet of contacts by a related field. But I do not know how. I tried it like this, but it does not work. foundContacts.order_by("classification.kam") Actually in a template I can access the kam value of a contact through contact.classification.kam since it is a OneToOne relationship. The (simplified) models l...

Dynamic form field generation in Django templates

I am having a problem figuring out how to solve this problem the Django and (probably) the Python way. I am sending a hash to a template that contains the following values {'date': '2009-12-30', 'locations': [{u'lat': 43.514000000000003, u'lng': -79.844032999999996, u'place': u'1053 Bowring Cres, Milton, ON L9T, CA', u'description': u'...

How do I define an ImageField in a Django abstract model?

I have an abstract Django model and I want to define an ImageField inside of it. The problem is that when I do define it, it raises an error because I don't have an "upload_to" attribute. Is there a way to still define it and have a separate folder for each inheriting class? ...

PYTHONPATH issue on a Production server and Namespace challenge

I'm really confused by some errors I'm getting as I'm trying to put an App into production. Everything works fine on the development machine, but I can't syncdb or enter the Django shell on the Production server. I'm getting an error when forum.models.py is attempts to import forum.managers.py because the models aren't in the namespace y...

Django ModelAdmin.save_model() changes not committing to database

I have a many to many relationship between Group and User and also between User and Domain. Also i have one to many relationship between Domain and Group. I have defined the save_model function of UserAdmin as follows: def save_model(self, request, obj, form, change): form.save(False) obj.save() form.save_m2m() ...

Generate TSV file in Django

I would like to generate a TSV file from a list of vehicles....I'll also be making some conversions on the data e.g. if value for transmission is "Automatic" then this value will be rendered as "A" or if mileage is in miles, then multiply this value by 1.6. What's the best way to go about this? UPDATE OK...so I've written the script a...

How do I get all the variables defined in a Django template?

I'm new to Django and I wonder if there is a way to dump all the variables available to a template for debugging purposes. In Python I might use something like locals(), is there something equivalent for the default template engine? Note: suppose I don't have access to the view for the purposes of this question. ...

Accessing a dict by variable in Django templates?

My view code looks basically like this: context = Context() context['my_dict'] = {'a': 4, 'b': 8, 'c', 15, 'd': 16, 'e': 23, 'f': 42 } context['my_list'] = ['d', 'f', 'e', 'b', 'c', 'a'] And what I'd like to do in my Django template is this: <ul> {% for item in my_list %} <li>{{ item }} : {{ my_dict.item }}</li> {% endfor %} </u...

Accessing parallel arrays in Django templates?

My view code looks basically like this: context = Context() context['some_values'] = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'] context['other_values'] = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42] I would like my template code to look like this: {% for some in some_values %} {% with index as forloop.counter0 %} {{ some }} : {{ other_values.index }} <br/> ...

Model Method with a Variable

I have the following view that takes the value of "q" from a template: from django.http import HttpResponse from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from GOTHAMWEB.GRID.models import * def search(request): errors = [] if 'q' in request.GET: q = request.GET['q'] if not q: errors.append('Enter a...

Does Django logs usernames internally

All.. I have a Django site and to access it all the users have to go through the login page. My question is when a user is given a access through the login page to enter the site.Does Django logs the username in any of the Django internal tables.... Thanks....... ...

django select query--how do I make this?

class Content(models.Model): .....stuff here class Score(models.Model): content = models.OneToOneField(Content, primary_key=True) real_score = models.IntegerField(default=0) This is my database schema. As you can see, each Content has a score. How do I do this: Select all from Content where Content's Score is 1? ...

Django forms: How do I get first and last names from an HTML form?

At present the search form is for last name only and that causes problems where there are more than one last name. This was noted here by Antony Hatchkin. To solve the problem I want to add a search form with last name and first name and write a new search function search2(). Will the new function look something like this? def search...

How to modify the rendering of a wdget in admin template?

I am trying to overrride the "admin/includes/fieldset.html" template. I am rendering "Group", a ModelMultipleChoiceField field as a CheckboxSelectMultiple widget. However I want to change the display depending on the choices selected. {% if field.is_checkbox %} {{ field.field }}{{ field.label_tag }} {% else %} ...

"recipient" from form in send mail

I have a very basic email app. The forms class is: class ContactForm(forms.Form): name = forms.CharField(max_length=100) subject = forms.CharField(max_length=100) sender = forms.EmailField() recipient_list = forms.EmailField() message = forms.CharField(widget=forms.Textarea) cc_myself = forms.BooleanField(initial...

Access models in other project in a Django view cause "table doesn't exist" error

Base project structure baseproject baseapp models.py class BaseModel(models.Model) ... Other project structure: project app views.py urls.py project.app.views.py import os os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'project.settings' from django.conf import settings from baseproj...

'%s' % 'somestring'

Here are a couple of examples taken from django-basic-apps: # self.title is a unicode string already def __unicode__(self): return u'%s' % self.title # 'q' is a string search_term = '%s' % request.GET['q'] What's the point of this string formatting? ...

Django ModelForm: adding an alias to a field

I have a (GoogleAppEngine) Django ModelForm: class A(db.Model): a = db.StringProperty() class MyAForm(djangoforms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = A This creates a form which has one string field a. On my form I'd like to call this something else, say b. So I'd like a form with a field called b and when the form is POSTed we ...

Markdown and Syntax Highlighting in Django with mixed code

I have some problems with following string while trying to syntax highlight them: Example <code class="php"><? echo "<input type=\"text\">"; ?></code> The php part is rendered correctly, but the html part breaks. I use the Markdown and Syntax Highlighting snippet from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/119/ Any idea how to e...