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how to make site show different language(chinese and english) on google-app-engine.

if you using django ,you can use the "LC_MESSAGES -->django.po" but has any way to do this on gae ? and how to .. thanks and if i only want to use django's this features, how can i import it? ...

Django Comments and Rating Systems

Hi Folks, I am looking for a blogging and comments system that can smoothly integrate with my Django sites. I've found there is a lot on the Net and got lost a bit, and I don't have much experience on this. Hope you guys can give me some suggestions. Here are the things that I would like to have: Tag Clouds Articles Archive (by month...

In django, how can I include some default records in my models.py?

If I have a models.py like class WidgetType(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200) class Widget(models.Model): typeid = models.ForeignKey(WidgetType) data = models.CharField(max_length=200) How can I build in a set of built in constant values for WidgetType when I know I'm only going to have a certain f...

Overwrite queryset which builds filter sidebar

Hi, I'm writing a hockey database/manager. So I have the following models: class Team(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=60) class Game(models.Model): home_team = models.ForeignKey(Team,related_name='home_team') away_team = models.ForeignKey(Team,related_name='away_team') class SeasonStats(models.Model): tea...

Locating file path from a <InMemoryUploadedFile> Django object

Hi all I have a Django app which, submitting a package, should return values that are inside it.. Submitted the form to a view called "insert": request.FILES['file'] returns the file objects, but it is of kind < InMemoryUploadedFile>. What i need is a way to get the absolute path of the uploaded file, so that i can feed it to a metho...

Python 2.4 inline if statements

I am setting up an existing django project on a dreamhost web server, so far I have got everything to work correctly. However I developed under python 2.5 and dreamhost by default uses python 2.4. The following line seems gives a syntax error because of the if keyword: 'parent': c.parent.pk if c.parent is not None else None ...

Reordering fields in Django model

I want to add few fields to every model in my django application. This time it's created_at, updated_at and notes. Duplicating code for every of 20+ models seems dumb. So, I decided to use abstract base class which would add these fields. The problem is that fields inherited from abstract base class come first in the field list in ad...

Problem trying to achieve a join using the `comments` contrib in Django

Hi, Django rookie here. I have this model, comments are managed with the django_comments contrib: class Fortune(models.Model): author = models.CharField(max_length=45, blank=False) title = models.CharField(max_length=200, blank=False) slug = models.SlugField(_('slug'), db_index=True, max_length=255, unique_for_date='pub_dat...

Django equivalent to paster for backend processes

I use pylons in my job, but I'm new to django. I'm making an rss filtering application, and so I'd like to have two backend processes that run on a schedule: one to crawl rss feeds for each user, and another to determine relevance of individual posts relative to users' past preferences. In pylons, I'd just write paster commands to upda...

Django: Geocoding an address on form submission?

Trying to wrap my head around django forms and the django way of doing things. I want to create a basic web form that allows a user to input an address and have that address geocoded and saved to a database. I created a Location model: class Location(models.Model): address = models.CharField(max_length=200) city = models.CharF...

Django: Admin with multiple sites & languages

Hi everybody! I'm supposed to build some Django apps, that allow you to administer multiple sites through one backend. The contrib.sites framework is quite perfect for my purposes. I can run multiple instances of manage.py with different settings for each site; but how should django's admin deal with different settings for different site...

Need a workaround to filter on related model and aggregated fields in Django

I opened a ticket for this problem. In a nutshell here is my model: class Plan(models.Model): cap = models.IntegerField() class Phone(models.Model): plan = models.ForeignKey(Plan, related_name='phones') class Call(models.Model): phone = models.ForeignKey(Phone, related_name='calls') cost = models.IntegerField() I want to run a ...

Using functions in models to dynamically fill fields on object creation in Django

Within Django, can a function local to a model be called on object creation to dynamically fill a field? class someModel(models.Model): id = models.FloatField(primary_key=True, default=generate_id()) def generate_id(self): newId=time.time() return newId So far I haven't had any luck with getting it to work or ...

Django Date Input Parsing?

I'm trying to get a date for an event from a user. The input is just a simple html text input. My main problem is that I don't know how to parse the date. If I try to pass the raw string, I get a TypeError, as expected. Does Django have any date-parsing modules? ...

Access to module denied from within GAE dev server

I am developing an app for GAE. Having installed the "feedparser" module with setuptools, I tried importing it (with "import feedparser") statement. However, the module does not load and when I look at the dev_appserver.py debug log on screen, I see the following: Access to module file denied: /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/fee...

Structure for Django methods that span different models

I have two models (say A and B) which are independent and have independent methods. I want to add some methods that operate on both models though. for example, addX() will create an object from both models A and B. What's the best way to structure code in this situation, since it doesnt make sense to have the method belong to either o...

Returning modified data to a template

I need to amend QuerySet data when i return it to a template. for example, model.objects.all() returns a date (with other fields), but i also want to return the number of days since that date has passed. This is so that in the template, i can say "you last logged in 4 days ago". What is the best way to do this? ...

Django db encoding

Hey, I have a little problem with encoding. The data in db is ok, when I select the data in php its ok. Problem comes when I get the data and try to print it in the template, I get - Å port instead of Šport, etc. Everything is set to utf-8 - in settings.py, meta tags in template, db table and I even have unicode method specified for th...

Django Currency Conversion

Is there any facility in Django for doing currency conversions? Obviously, rates change day by day but I'm somewhat hopeful that the locale module has some sort of web-service based converter :P There's a snippet here that handles the formatting: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/552/ But I need to localize the values first. ...

django updating m2m field

I have a model service and a ModelForm named Service which I use to add and update the service model. The model looks like this: class Service(models.Model): categories = models.ManyToManyField(Category) The categories field is displayed as a tag with that allows multiple selection. It works well when I'm adding a new record but ...