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IntegrityError at /maps/create/ (1062, "Duplicate entry '' for key 'slug'")

my form is : class MapForm(forms.ModelForm): slug = forms.SlugField(max_length=20) and did you know why? and how to make this running.. ...

Sort list of items in Django

Hi Guys, I have a Django view called change_priority. I'm posting a request to this view with a commas separated list of values which is basically the order of the items in my model. The data looks like this: 1,4,11,31,2,4,7 I have a model called Items which has two values - id and priority. Upon getting this post request, how can I ...

Change user email in Django without using django-profiles

Hi guys, In my Django application I would like the user to be able to change the email address. I've seen solution of StackOverflow pointing people to django-profiles. Unfortunately I don't want to use a full fledged profile module to accomplish a tiny feat of changing the users email. Has anyone seen this implemented anywhere. The emai...

get_list_or_404 ordering in django

Hi I'm trying to order the results of the get_list_or_404 method get_list_or_404(...).order_by('name') doesn't seem to work What's the way to do this? ...

Django: switch language of message sent from admin panel

I have a model, Order, that has an action in the admin panel that lets an admin send information about the order to certain persons listed that order. Each person has language set and that is the language the message is supposed to be sent in. A short version of what I'm using: from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _ from dj...

python django automated data addition

I have a script which reads data from a csv file. I need to store the data into a database which has already been created as $ python manage.py syncdb so, that automated data entry is possible in an easier manner, as available in the django shell. ...

django templating system inheritance issue

hi, i am having issues with my django templating system, i have a base.html file, which contains the content which will be common on all the web pages of the web site, the base.html file fetches some dynamic content, like the categories and the archives, which are passed to it by a python file, which fetches the categories and the archiv...

How do I get the position of a result in the list after an order_by?

I'm trying to find an efficient way to find the rank of an object in the database related to it's score. My naive solution looks like this: rank = 0 for q in Model.objects.all().order_by('score'): if q.name == 'searching_for_this' return rank rank += 1 It should be possible to get the database to do the filtering, using order_...

django filebrowser extensions problem

Hi, I've set django filebrowser's debug to True and wrote the extension restrictions in the model. pdf = FileBrowseField("PDF", max_length=200, directory="documents/", extensions=['.pdf', '.doc', '.txt'], format='Document', blank=True, null=True) In django admin it shows correctly with debug info. Directory documents/ Extensions ['.pdf...

Django: Named URLs / Same Template, Different Named URL

I have a webapp that lists all of my artists, albums and songs when the appropriate link is clicked. I make extensive use of generic views (object_list/detail) and named urls but I am coming across an annoyance. I have three templates that pretty much output the exact same html that look just like this: {% extends "base.html" %} {% bl...

django select max field from mysql when column is varchar

Hi, Using Django 1.1, I am trying to select the maximum value from a varchar column (in MySQL.) The data stored in the column looks like: 9001 9002 9017 9624 10104 11823 (In reality, the numbers are much bigger than this.) This worked until the numbers incremented above 10000: Feedback.objects.filter(est__pk=est_id).aggregate(sid...

Python Fabric error

I'm running fabric (Django deployment to apache) and everything seems to work fine until I get to the task for installing the site: def install_site(): "Add the virtualhost file to apache" require('release', provided_by=[deploy, setup]) sudo('cd %(path)/releases/%(release)/%(release); cp %(project_name)/%(virtualhost_path)/%...

Unexplained Django error. Diagnosis anyone?

I have a django project I keep on github. It worked perfectly fine on my laptop. I downloaded it on my desktop and tried to "python manage.py runserver" or even "python manage.py shell" I get a Error: No module named messages No other messages, no stack trace, nothing..Anyone have any idea whats going on? Thanks. ...

django create user and log them in

In a view I'm trying to create a new user and then log them in but result in a new url on success. def create(request): if request.method == "POST": # do user creation # user.save() auth_user = authenticate(username=user.username,password=user.password) if auth_user is not None: login(...

How to use jqGrid in django frame work

Anyone who has tried to use JQGrid a Jquery plugin with django? Please share your knowledge/code samples ...

Django: Passing the result of {% trans %} via a filter.

Hello everyone, I have a string that I want passed via the "linebreaks" filter. {% trans "my string"|linebreaks %} Doesn't work. Is there another way ? ...

django+mod_wsgi on virtualenv not working

I've just finished setting up a django app on virtualenv, deployment went smoothly using a fabric script, but now the .wsgi is not working, I've tried every variation on the internet but no luck. My .wsgi file is: import os import sys import django.core.handlers.wsgi # put the Django project on sys.path root_path = os.path.abspath(os.p...

MultiWidget in MultiWidget how to compress the first one?

I have two MultiWidget one inside the other, but the problem is that the MultiWidget contained don't return compress, how do i do to get the right value from the first widget? In this case from SplitTimeWidget class SplitTimeWidget(forms.MultiWidget): """ Widget written to split widget into hours and minutes. """ def __i...

Django Template tag, generating template block tag

Hi Guys, Currently a bit stuck, wondering if anyone can assist. I am using django-adminfiles. Which is a neat little application. I want to use it to insert images into posts/articles/pages for a site i am building. How django-adminfiles works is it inserts a placeholder i.e <<< ImageFile >>> and this gets rendered using a django temp...

Cannot use "image.save" on django

My error is: IOError at /mytest/photo/upload/ [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/mytest/photo/upload/2.png' And my view is: UPLOAD_URL = '/mytest/photo/upload/' def upload(request): buf = request.FILES.get('photo', None) print buf if buf: #data = buf.read() #f = StringIO.StringIO(data) image...