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How to choose server for production release of my Django application?

My company is at the very end of development process of some (awesome:)) web application. This app will be available as a online service for (hopefully) some significant number of users. This is our biggest django release so far and as we are preparing to release some question about deployment have to be answered. Q1: how to determine r...

Django 'timeline'

hi there, i want to make a 'timeline' containing all mini blog posts from a user, and all the user he is following. I want all these posts to be ordered by date..But how can i 'join' the posts, because the 'following' relation is in another table, so i have to make some kind of a join between the two tables, for taking the data. For no...

bootsrapping in django

while using groovy with grails i used to use the bootstrap file to add some data such as the primary user of the application or other things that need to be initialised for the first time when the application is started , how do i achive the same in django? ...

Django (python): associate one method with a given model instance

Hi, I am a little bit stuck. I have been commanded to do an exersice which states in one of the steps to associate a method with an instance (as I understood), here a closer explanation: I have a model, wich have different methods, each of them execute some tests given that model's instance fields. Then, I have another model which ...

how to change the form input types

I am trying to write a quiz application.i have the follwing model. class Question(db.Model): question=db.StringProperty(required=True) answer_1=db.StringProperty(required=True) answer_2=db.StringProperty(required=True) answer_3=db.StringProperty(required=True) answer_4=db.StringProperty(required=True) correct_ans...

How do I install WordPress in a Django subdirectory?

I have Django set up on my server at http://stevencampbell.org/ I want to be able to run WordPress at stevencampbell.org/blog/ I'm running all my Python and Django files through Fast_CGI (only Django option on my server). My .htaccess file looks like this: AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(/media.*)$ /$1 [...

simplexml_load_string equivalent Python / Django

Hi I'm trying to find a xml-interpret function (like the simplexml_load_string) in Python, but with no success :/ Let's say I have xml in a string my_xml_string = """ <root> <content> <one>A value</one> <two>Here goes for ...</two> </content> </root>""" To read an value in php I would normaly do something...

Ordering by two different aggregate values of a relation's fields

With the following code: from django.db import models class Blogpost(models.Model): pass class Vote(models.Model): question = models.ForeignKey(Blogpost) TYPE_CHOICES = ( ('up', 'Up-Votes'), ('dn', 'Down-Votes'), ) type = models.CharField(max_length=2, choices=TYPE_CHOICES) What is the best way to obt...

How to configure Apache 2.2 for django 1.1 on Windows xp

I been having hard times configuring Apache 2.2 for Django app that will run on a local area network. I been through a lot of tutorials and documentations still can not get it working for me My question is there a straight , step by step method for configuring Apache 2.2 for windows i ready to try anything that will work thank in adva...

how to deal with returnurl in django-paypal for paypal WPP

I am now developing my site using django. In integrating my site with paypal, I use pluggable application "http://github.com/johnboxall/django-paypal". Although the document is very clear for "Using PayPal Payments Pro (WPP)", but I still have some questions, especially the relationship between "returnurl" and "confirm_template". #views...

Google app engine bulkloader problem when using yaml autogenerated configuration and enities with numeric ID

QUESTION Please be kind I'm new to pytnon and appengine platform. Application uses django-norel, and I dont have access to model (and really I'm not that python proficient to backtrace how models are saved). I have my bulkloader.yaml file autogenerated by appcfg.py create_bulkloader_config. Problem is entities numeric ID's are be...

Django admin - Edit parent model and related models on the same page

I want to be able to edit all data on one page. How can i achieve this ? Should i modify my models? If so, then how should i modify them? class TextStyle(models.Model): color = models.CharField(_("color"), max_length=7) style = models.CharField(_("style"), max_length=30) typeface = models.CharField(_("typeface"), max_lengt...

Storing user's avatar upon registration

I have an extended UserProfile for registering new users. My user_created function connects to signals sent upon registering basic User instance and creates new UserProfile with extended fields from my form. Here's the code : from registration.signals import user_registered from accounts.forms import ExtendedRegistrationForm import ac...

Custom storage system in Django

I'm trying to write a simple custom storage system. I need only that my storage system duplicate files from a few FTP servers. Subclass of storage looks like: from django.core.files.storage import Storage from settings import MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL import ftplib import os class FTPStorage(Storage): """FTP Storage class for Djang...

How do I tell Django to save my test database?

Running Django unit tests is far too slow. Especially when I just want to run one test but the test runner wants to create the entire database and destroy the whole thing just for that one test. In the case where I have not changed any of my models, I could save oodles of time if Django would not bother trying to create and destroy the...

FTP request error. Django, FTP, Python

I'm trying to use this expression. And It tell me that: storbinary() takes at most 4 arguments (5 given) ftp.storbinary("STOR " + os.path.basename(name), StringIO(content_str), "rb", 8*1024) I can see here only 4 argument. where is hidden 5th argument. I'm confuse. ...

how to make post requests in python/django?

as described in http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api#publishing i want to make a post request to update a users status .How do i make post requests in python / django? ...

Strange Error in django when I'm trying connect my costum storage!

I'm trying setup costum storege. Looks like all is ok. But there is the next error: Exception Type: ViewDoesNotExist Exception Value: Could not import app.views. Error was: cannot import name FTPStorage Exception Location: C:\BitNami DjangoStack\apps\django\django\core\urlresolvers.py in _get_callback, line 134 ...

Use markup in files using django

I am currently working on a website using, django, my problem is that the site has to be ported from using php scripts to using django. Though the site content has been well maintained by the previous maintainer, I have to use markdown for files that already having a HUGE amount of content in them, like the main page is divided into thre...

News sources for python django

Hi All, I find myself continually sifting through the net to keep up with Python/Django/web development trends and news. Does anyone recommend any good news sites that focus on web development or they Python community? For example, what new Django modules are popular or interesting new jQuery plugins, etc. Just curious to know how ...