I'm trying to learn Django and I would like feedback from anyone who has any MVC/MTV/PHP/Ruby framework experience. Does anyone find that the user model is too tightly coupled with auth? Background: When you first implement authentication for Django, you include the module django.contrib.auth This will bring in several models like Use...
I'm building my first python app on app-engine and wondering if I should use Django or not. What are the strong points of each? If you have references that support your answer, please post them. Maybe we can make a wiki out of this question. ...
I've created a markdown extension file (called mdx_xxx.py) for a django project I'm working on but I can't really decide where to put it. The documentation says that the file should reside on the PYTHONPATH and I've seen several blog posts inviting to just put the file in the root directory of the project. However, that seems like an o...
Is there a way to give a form a special error rendering function in the form definition? In the docs under customizing-the-error-list-format it shows how you can give a form a special error rendering function, but it seems like you have to declare it when you instantiate the form, not when you define it. So you can define some ErrorList...
i want a example. thanks ...
Hi, This is a general question about how limiting are web development frameworks such as Django and ruby-on-rails. I am planning on building a RESTful web service which will have a purely JSON/XML interface, no GUI. The service will rely on a database however for a few of the more important operations there is no clear way of persistin...
Hi I have created an article site, where articles are published in several languages. I am using transmeta (http://code.google.com/p/django-transmeta/) to support multiple languages in one model. Also I am using generic comments framework, to make articles commentable. I wonder what will happen if the same article will be commented in ...
Currently an application of mine is using SQLAlchemy, but I have been considering the possibility of using Django model API. Django 1.1.1 is about 3.6 megabytes in size, whereas SQLAlchemy is about 400 kilobytes (as reported by PyPM - which is essentially the size of the files installed by python setup.py install). I would like to use...
I'm looking for a good tutorial for URL namespaces in Django. I find official documentation a little too sparse - it lacks good examples. I found similar question here on stack, but the answers didn't help me to fully understand the subject either. ...
Hi all, Is there any chance that an application developed with Pinax could be deployed in google app engine? As I know, Pinax is based on Django, and integrates tons of applications, it is suitable for building even a social networking site. It's extremely useful but I wonder if I can deploy it on google app engine. Thank you, ...
Django only allows you to use one database in settings.py. Does that prevent you from scaling up? (millions of users) ...
I'm looking to add a method that my Ticket model has called process to the admin, so that I could click a link in the list view, and "process" my model instance (do an API call behind the scenes). To clarify: class Ticket(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=255) def process(self): ... hardcore processing...
I need to resolve problem with word endings in django admin panel. The language I'm using is russian (using utf-8 charset), so some problems occur, for example, there is a problem with the right endings on the "Add" button for some model names. The simplest thing I found is using jQuery to correct endings "on the fly", but this solution ...
Hello, is it any way to read path to current page? For example, I am at www.example.com/foo/bar/ - and I want to read '/foo/bar/'. But, all have to be done in template file without modyficating views. I have to many view files to edit each one. Sorry for my english, hope everyone understand. Cheers. ...
I have installed a TextMate bundle that I believe enables the ability for automatic closing of the "{{" markup (so that it will automatically close the markup with "}}"), but this does not seem to be possible with the other markup that uses "{%" and "%}". So, I was wondering if anyone out there knows how to get TextMate to add the autom...
Greetings I am hacking Django and trying to test something such as: Like woot.com , I want to sell "an item per day", so only one item will be available for that day (say the default www.mysite.com will be redirected to that item), Assume my urls for calling these items will be such: www.mysite.com/item/<number> my model for item: c...
Hi folks, I'm trying to set up a facebook app using django by following this tutorial: http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/example-facebook-application-django/ . I get to the point where I start my development server at (manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80) then it says: Now under http://apps.facebook.com/NAME/ you should see a basic Facebook ...
Say I have a ticket and this ticket has an owner and a taker. The owner ID is set when the ticket is created and the taker ID is set to default to NULL. In this case the taker may NOT also be the owner. I know this is trivial to do in the progamming logic but I am wondering if it can be done in the database. Setting the two fields to u...
Hi, I have a form floatfield. What is the best way to change the default separator from '.' to ','? I tried to set the DECIMAL_SEPARATOR in the settings to ',' but this doesn't help. Is there a way to configure this or do I have to overwrite the clean method of the floatfield? Thank you! ...
There have been some questions and answers here on stackoverflow, but no one asked if it's a good solution to run django on IIS. Any experience is welcome, both good and bad. ...