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django file serving issues

I have in my url patterns, urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/home/tipu/Dropbox/dev/workspace/search/images'}) In my template when I do <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ MEDIA_URL }}style.css" /> It serves the css just fine. But the file logo.png...

How to display two QuerySets in one table?

I have two different QuerySets which both return a list of Users (with different fields). How can I display them both in one HTML table? There will be some overlap between which users are returned, and for the missing data I just want to fill it in with 0s (which I can probably do in the template with the default filter). If it helps, t...

Django forms "not" using forms from models

I have a form generated from various models and the various values filled go and sit in some other table. Hence, in this case I haven't used the inbuilt Django forms(i.e. I am not creating forms from models ). Now the data which is posted from the self made form is handled by view1 which should clean the data accordingly. How do I go...

Best Approach to process images in Django

I've have an application with Android front end and Django as the back end. As part of the answers here, I'm confused over the approach which I should take to send images to Django Server. I've 2 options at my disposal as Piro pointed out there. 1) Sending images as Multi Part entity 2) Send image as a String after encoding it using Ba...

Django attribute error: 'module' object has no attribute 'is_usable'

Hi, I got the following error when calling the url in Django. It's working before, I guess it's related with some accidental changes I made, but I have no idea what they are. Thanks before for the help, Robert Environment: Request Method: GET Request URL: http://localhost:8000/time/ Django Version: 1.2 Python Version: 2.6.1 Installed...

Adding fields to Django form dynamically (and cleanly)

Hey guys, I know this question has been brought up numerous times, but I'm not quite getting the full implementation. As you can see below, I've got a form that I can dynamically tell how many rows to create. How can I create an "Add Row" link that tells the view how many rows to create? I would really like to do it without augmenting th...

DJANGO complex modelling

Hello. I have such model now: receipt contains components. component contain product. The difference between component and product is, that component has quantity and measure unit: eg. component is 100g sugar - sugar is a product. So I need to make lots of components to satisfy different recipes - 100g sugar is not equal 200g sugar ...

Django - count date between

I have many record in my database wich contains datetime field (e.g. 2010-05-23 17:45:57). I want to count all records between e.g. 15:00 and 15:59 (it all can by from other day, month or year). How can I do this? ...

How to stop Django "app not found" error?

When I run python ./manage.py sql grading my django site comes up with: Error: App with label grading could not be found. Are you sure you INSTALLED_APPS setting is correct? I have the app grading with __init__.py and everything, and my INSTALLED APPS is: INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes'...

django file upload in 2 steps

Hi, I want to upload a file in 2 steps. First I want to upload it and show the errors and on the second step I want actually to save the file data in the database. So I made a simple form and my problem is how to pass the same file to the form on the second step? I mean how to insert request.FILES data in the same form again. Or ...

Django: Sum on an date attribute grouped by month/year

Hello, I'd like to put this query from SQL to Django: "select date_format(date, '%Y-%m') as month, sum(quantity) as hours from hourentries group by date_format(date, '%Y-%m') order by date;" The part that causes problem is to group by month when aggregating. I tried this (which seemed logical), but it didn't work : HourEntries.object...

fabric deploy problem

Hi, I'm trying to deploy a django app with fabric and get the following error: Alexs-MacBook:fabric alex$ fab config:instance=peergw deploy -H <ip> - u <username> -p <password> [192.168.2.93] run: cat /etc/issue Traceback (most recent call last): File "build/bdist.macosx-10.6-universal/egg/fabric/main.py", line 419, in mai...

Django: How to set default language in admin on login

I'm saving an user's default language in his user profile and on login I want to set the admin's default language to it. One possibility I was thinking of is using a middleware, but I think if I do it on process_request I will not see an user object there since this is processed AFTER the middleware, so I could only set it after the n...

Right way to have a thread in parallel to django project on wsgi.

Hi guys. I'm writing a django project, and I need to have a parallel thread which performs certain tasks. The project will be deployed in Apache2.2 with mod_wsgi. Actually my implementation consists on a thread with a while True - Sleep which is called from my django.wsgi file. Is this implementation correct? Two problems raises: do...

Django: making raw SQL query, passing multiple/repeated params?

Hopefully this should be a fairly straightforward question, I just don't know enough about Python and Django to answer it. I've got a raw SQL query in Django that takes six different parameters, the first two of which (centreLat and centreLng) are each repeated: query = "SELECT units, (SQRT(((lat-%s)*(lat-%s)) + ((lng-%s)*(lng-%s)))) ...

What do I use for CONTACTS_IMPORT_CALLBACK in django-friends friends application?

I am trying to figure out what is needed for the CONTACTS_IMPORT_CALLBACK variable in django-friends or django-contacts-import applications (contact import is built from friends). I have tried view models, etc.. but everything throws errors. Neither application has documentation so I am just grasping at straws for what is needed. Can...

CharField values disappearing after save (readonly field)

I'm implementing simple "grade book" application where the teacher would be able to update the grades w/o being allowed to change the students' names (at least not on the update grade page). To do this I'm using one of the read-only tricks, the simplest one. The problem is that after the SUBMIT the view is re-displayed with 'blank' value...

Can the Django urls.py system be turned into Pylon's Routes?

How can that be done? Thanks ...

Django Tiny_MCE and FileBrowser leading ../../../

Hi Im using Filebrowser for Django and also TinyMCE. I include TinyMCE in my admin text area editor by adding a admin template to folder media in my templates with filename base_site.html Now when I add a image with filebrowser, tiny_mce adds a leading ../../../../ before /media/uploads/etc/image.jpg Any ideas why? I guess its some URL...

django 1.2.1: Override model name in admin interface?

I have a model called "Activity" in my django app. in the admin interface, it appears on the screen as "Activitys". how can I override the label on the admin page to make it "Activities" instead? I see in the archives how to do this for a field, but not for a model itself. thanks! ...