I'm trying to get Django's manage.py to run with modified settings files. I have three settings files settings.py preview.py live.py settings.py contains my base settings but on live & preview sites I point the ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] to live or preview which in turn load the base file and any settings specific to that environment....
Hi, I've got a block of erlydtl code which I use repeatedly and would like to abstract to some kind of block / partial template. The issue is that I need to pass the block a local variable. This is possible with Rails partial templates; it looks like it's possible with Django's blocks [albeit with some kind of Python hackery]; I'm wonde...
Hello I am running my django project from subfolder of a website. Lets say the address where my project is meant to open from is. http://example.com/myproject/ the myproject folder is root folder for my user account. In that folder i have fcgi script that starts my project. The .htaccess file in the folder contains this: RewriteEngi...
Hi at all, Tornado is a webserver + framework like Django but for real-time features. On my server I don't have a python module or wsgi module so I thought CGI. Is there a way to get Tornado ( or Django ) works by using CGI folder ? If yes, Could you explain me how do I do that ? ...
I'm using a jCarouselLite plugin for creating two image galleries on the main page of my Django-powered site. The code of elements with navigation arrows is generating dynamically like this: $(document).ready(function () { $('[jq\\:corner]').each(function(index, item) { item = $(item); item.corner(item.attr('jq:corner'))...
In the following code, i have a drop down box and a multi select box. My question is that using javascript and django .how will i changes the designation with changes in names from drop down box. <tr><td> name:</td><td><select id="name" name="name">{% for name in names %} <option value="{{name.id}}" {% for selec...
Hello, newbie here. I have a local Postgres database which will be filled with data (daily) on my local development machine. What is a good solution to transfer/sync/mirror this data to a production Postgres database. For what it's worth I'm developing in Python using Django. Thanks! ...
We are considering to develop a Flash front-end to a web application written using Django. The Flash front-end will send a simple "id" to the server and in response receive a couple of objects. The application will be open only to authenticated users. To the extend of my current knowledge (which is basic for Flash) we can either use AMF...
I have these (simplified) models: class Question(models.Model): question = models.CharField(max_length=60) class Choices(models.Model): question = models.ForeignKey(Question) text = models.CharField(max_length=60) is_correct = models.BooleanField(default=False) I've made Choices as an inline of Question (in admin). ...
class MyTable(models.Model): lat = models.FloatField(blank=True) long = models.FloatField(blank=True) How do I make them unsigned? Able to accept negative . ...
class host(models.Model): emp = models.ForeignKey(getname) def __unicode__(self): return self.topic In views there is the code as, real =[] for emp in my_emp: real.append(host.objects.filter(emp=emp.id)) This above results only the values of emp,My question is that how to get the ids along with emp val...
Hi all, I want to allocate rankings to users, based on a points field. Easy enough you'd think with an order_by query. But how do I deal with the situation where two users have the same number of points and need to share the same ranking? Should I use annotate to find users with the same number of points? My current code, and a pseud...
I want to return some files in a HttpResponse and I'm using the following function. The file that is returned always has a filesize of 1kb and I do not know why. I can open the file, but it seems that it is not served correctly. Thus I wanted to know how one can return files with django/python over a HttpResponse. @login_required def se...
I'm going crazy today. I just tried to insert a new record and it threw back a "post_blogpost.id may not be NULL" error. Here's my model: class BlogPost(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) slug = models.SlugField(max_length=100) who = models.ForeignKey(User, default=1) when = models.DateTi...
I'm working on a website that requires us to log a user out after N minutes of inactivity. Are there any best practices for this using Django? ...
I've been programming in Asp.Net MVC for quite some time now and to expand a little bit beyond the .Net world I've recently began learning Python and Django. I am enjoying Django but one thing I am missing from Asp.Net MVC is the automatic routing from my urls to my controller actions. In Asp.Net MVC I can build much of my application ...
Given a reference app ( called guide), how can I create additional apps that will reuse the same model/admin/views than guide - the motivation behind is to be able to individually control each subapp. guide guideApp1 exact same models/admin/views than guide guideApp2 exact same models/admin/views than guide in the Admin site, I...
Hi folks, I'm trying to implement a "time ago" feature, for the displaying of items on a site. As I'm caching the pages I wish to use javascript in order to render the "time ago". Javascript knows local time and problably the Timezone of the local machine so I could play with that, but that would require to hard code the server's timez...
I'm developing a project with two different sites, divided by language. Maybe I was terribly wrong, but now my directory structure looks like: /ruapp/settings.py # SITE_ID = 1 /ruapp/manage.py /enapp/settings.py # SITE_ID = 2 /enapp/manage.py /common/urls.py /common/ # almost every other file /common/templates/ # templates with ...
How can I include an HTTP header, such as Cache-Control or Last-Modified, in the response to a django-piston call? ...