As of the most current version, Django does not allow a subclass to have a variable with the same name as a variable in its superclass, if that variable is a Field instance. I need a subclass to modify this variable, which I call 'department'. Calling my classes super and sub, I need sub to modify the department variable it inherits fr...
I've got a field in my model of type FileField. This gives me an object of type type File, which has the following method: File.name: The name of the file including the relative path from MEDIA_ROOT. What I want is something like .filename that will only give me the filename and not the path as well something like: {% for download i...
My question is very similar to this one: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057252/django-how-do-i-access-the-request-object-or-any-other-variable-in-a-forms-clea Except, I have the same problem with admin form. So I can't see a way to init the form myself, therefore - to pass a request to it. Thanks beforehand. ...
I'm sending a lot of JSON requests from a native iPad application to my Django web server. How do I translate forms I use on my website to handle an iPad web service? Am I trying to solve the wrong problem, should a web service used from native iPad applications be redesigned to use REST-ful requests? ...
I have a site where different projects/programs are listed, the list is dynamic so once a user clicks on a specific program e.g. /program/health the template should load one that has a "health" specific header (mast head). How can I load a base template based on the program selected? ...
I am developing a multi-language site in Django. In order to improve SEO, I will give every language version a unique URL like below, english: www.foo.com/en/index.html french: www.foo.com/fr/index.html chinese: www.foo.com/zh/index.html However, Django looks for a "django_language" key in user's session or cookie to determine lang...
I'm evaluating PyAMF to replace our current PHP (ugh) AMF services framework, and I'm unable to find the one crucial piece of information that would allow me to provide a compelling use case for changing over: Right now, new PHP AMF services are deployed simply by putting the .php files in the filesystem; the next time they're accessed,...
Hi I'm currently running a Django project on my school's webserver with FCGI. I did follow the multiple guides that recommends installing a virtual local Python environment and it worked out great. The only issue i had was that "touching" my fcgi-file to reload source-files wasn't enough, but instead i had to kill the python service via...
hello I was wondering if I can get django admin (logged as super user) to display in some kind of "recent actions box", changes other users (non super users) made? Thanx, Luka ...
I'm tying to hide my slug fields in the admin by setting editable=False but every time I do that I get the following error: KeyError at /admin/website/program/6/ Key 'slug' not found in Form Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/admin/website/program/6/ Exception Type: KeyError Exception Value: Key 'slug' not fou...
Well, i've walking around this for a couples of days now... I think is time to ask for some help, i think my installation is ok... Server OS: Centos 5 Python -v 2.6.5 Django -v (1, 1, 1, 'final', 0) my apache conf: <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot /opt/workshop ServerName taller.antell.com.py WSGIScriptAlias / /opt/workshop/...
I'm using the extra() modifier in a view. (See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/models/querysets/#extra-select-none-where-none-params-none-tables-none-order-by-none-select-params-none ) Here's the the code: def viewname(request) ... exact_matchstrings=[] exact_matchstrings.append("(accountprofile.first_name LIKE '"...
Suppose my template has in it something like {% block subject %}my subject{% endblock %} and I load this template with tmpl = loader.get_template('mytemplate.html'), how can I extract "my subject"? ...
I'm running a django project on Centos 5.4 and serving it with httpd/mod_wsgi. I can't figure out the correct permissions for /home/website/django_project so that I don't get a 403 error. In my httpd.conf the user and group to run httpd as is apache. The group django is set up with website and apache as members. The owner of /home/web...
I'm having trouble getting django-admin.py to work... it's in this first location: /Users/mycomp/bin/ but I think I need it in another location for the terminal to recognize it, no? Noob, Please help. Thanks!! my-computer:~/Django-1.1.1 mycomp$ sudo ln -s /Users/mycomp/bin/django-admin.py /Users/mycomp/django-1.1.1/django-admin.py Pas...
I just created my first django app, initialized variables DATABASE_ENGINE and DATABASE_NAME in settings.py, but now when I run python manage.py syncdb, I get the following error Can somebody help? Does this have to do with having two python versions installed? I'm a django/python noob, please help. thanks!! my-computer:~/Django-1.1.1 m...
So I of course know that serving static files through Django will send you straight to hell but I am confused on how to use a custom url to mask the true location of the file using Django. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681338/django-serving-a-download-in-a-generic-view but the answer I accepted seems to be the "wrong" way of doing...
I learned everything I know about Rails from Railscasts. Now I want to learn Django but I'm not finding any comprehensive tutorial resources like Railscasts. Does an equivalent not exist in the Django world? If so, is that because there is less to learn? ...
I'm building a system using django, Sphinx and MySQL that's very quickly becoming quite large. The database currently has about 2000 rows, and I've written a program that's going to populate it with another 40,000 rows in a couple days. Since the database is live right now, and since I've never had a database with this much information i...
I have a model which can be attached to to other models. class Attachable(models.Model): content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) object_pk = models.TextField() content_object = generic.GenericForeignKey(ct_field="content_type", fk_field="object_pk") class Meta: abstract = True class Flag(Attachable): ...