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[Django] How to limit requests per minute per user?

I Have several forms in my website and I have several pages with intense database activity. I want to set a cap on requests per user. For example, I don't want people to make over 10 requests in less than 10 seconds. Is there way to do this in Django? ...

How Can I Populate Default Form Data with a ManyToMany Field?

Ok, I've been crawling google and Django documentation for over 2 hours now (as well as the IRC channel on freenode), and haven't been able to figure this one out. Basically, I have a model called Room, which is displayed below: class Room(models.Model): """ A `Partyline` room. Rooms on the `Partyline`s are like mini-chatrooms....

View centric design with Django

Hi! I'm relatively new to Django and I'm designing a website that primarily needs usability experience, speaking of optimized CSS, HTML5 and UI stuff. It's very easy to use Django for data/Model centric design. Just designing a couple of Python classes and ./manage.py syncdb - there's your Model. But I'm dealing with a significant amou...

Django dislaying upload file content

hello, i have an application that loads different documents to the server, and allows users to read documents' content. i am uploading the documents to the server, and then i try to read the courses by id, like: def view_course(request,id): u = Courses.objects.get(pk=id) etc But i don't find anywhere : how can i actually read the ...

Django grappelli

Does anyone here use django-grappelli here ? I would like to read some experience of developers or users, if there are common mistake to avoid or why you use or do not use grappelli. Thanks for sharing ...

Django filter by hour

I've found that link: http://code.djangoproject.com/attachment/ticket/8424/time_filters.diff and changed my django 1.2 files by adding taht what you can see there. But now, when I'm trying to write Entry.objects.filter(pub_date__hour = x) - the result is following error: Field has invalid lookup: hour What should I do else, to mak...

model not showing up in django admin.

Hi. I have ceated several django apps and stuffs for my own fund and so far everything has been working fine. Now i just created new project (django 1.2.1) and have run into trouble from 1st moments. I created new app - game and new model Game. i created admin.py and put related stuff into it. Ran syncdb and went to check into admi...

Decorators vs. classes in python web development.

I've noticed three main ways Python web frameworks deal request handing: decorators, controller classes with methods for individual requests, and request classes with methods for GET/POST. I'm curious about the virtues of these three approaches. Are there major advantages or disadvantages to any of these approaches? To fix ideas, her...

Display additional data while iterating over a Django formset

Hi, I have a list of soccer matches for which I'd like to display forms. The list comes from a remote source. matches = ["A vs. B", "C vs. D", "E vs, F"] matchFormset = formset_factory(MatchForm,extra=len(matches)) formset = MatchFormset() On the template side, I would like to display the formset with the according title (i.e. "A vs...

django hidden field error

hi, there, i'm building a message system for a virtual community, but i can't take the userprofile id i have in views.py def save_message(request): if request.method == 'POST': form = MessageForm(request.POST) if form.is_valid(): new_obj = form.save(commit=False) new_obj.sender = request.user ...

Need help optimizing this Django aggregate query

I have the following model class Plugin(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) # more fields which represents a plugin that can be downloaded from my site. To track downloads, I have class Download(models.Model): plugin = models.ForiegnKey(Plugin) timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True) So to ...

Google App Engine with local Django 1.1 gets Intermittent Failures

I'm using the Windows Launcher development environment for Google App Engine. I have downloaded Django 1.1.2 source, and un-tarrred the "django" subdirectory to live within my application directory (a peer of app.yaml) At the top of each .py source file, I do this: import settings import os os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = 'sett...

Are Django template tags cached?

I have gone through the (painful) process of writing a custom template tag for use in Django. It is registered as an inclusion_tag so that it renders a template. However, this tag breaks as soon as I try to change something. I've tried changing the number of parameters and correspondingly changing the parameters when it's called. It's c...

simple way to quickly edit my website

here's my website: www.newportclassic.com do you know of any free, easy to use, content management systems, that will allow me to simply edit the text on my site without having to download the file, open the file, edit the code, save the file, upload the file ??????? ...

django app organization

I have been reading some django tutorial and it seems like all the view functions have to go in a file called "views.py" and all the models go in "models.py". I fear that I might end up with a lot of view functions in my view.py file and the same is the case with models.py. Is my understanding of django apps correct? Django apps lets ...

Componentizing complex functionality in an MVC web app

Hi Everyone, This is question about MVC web-app architecture, and how it can be extended to handle componentizing moderately complex units of functionality. I have an MVC style web-app with a customer facing credit card charge page. I've been asked to allow the admins to enter credit card payments as well, for times when credit cards ...

** UPDATED ** 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'day'

Hi guy, i dont know where is my error, but Django 1.2.1 is give this error: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'day' when i try to save form from the Administrator Area models.py from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Editorial(models.Model): titulo = models.CharField(max_length=250,help_t...

django: django 1.2 on ubuntu lucid

I am trying to run django on my ubuntu lucid, but I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 11, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "/usr/local/lib/p...

Django localeURL when WSGIScriptAlias is /PREFIX

Good morning everyone, Introduction I Got a question about localeURL usage. Everything works great for me with url like this : http://www.mysite.com/ If I type http://www.mysite.com/ in adress bar, it turns correctly in http://www.mysite.com/en/ for example. If I use the view change_locale, it's also all right (ie change www.mysite...

manyToManyField question

Hay guys, I'm writing a simple app which logs recipes. I'm working out my models and have stumbled across a problem My Dish models needs to have many Ingredients. This is no problem because i would do something like this ingredients = models.ManyToManyfield(Ingredient) No problems, my dish now can have many ingrendients. However, t...