django

Templates in different directory

Hi, I want to place the project hierarchy in this way project |-app | \app1 | |-templates | \app1_templ.html | |- views.py | \-models.py |-templates | \main.html |-views.py |-models.py ... But in the main.html i want to use `{%include app1_templ.html%}. Assuming the views.py from the app1: def...

Can't get Django localization to work

I've searched several threads and bug reports, but couldn't find a solution. I changed the locale of my Django project to pt-br but it made no difference. I excepted all input fields and outputs to localize dates and numbers, specially DECIMAL_SEPARATOR and THOUSAND_SEPARATOR, including in the admin API. But the dates there continue to ...

Django Piston issue - "oauth_user_auth() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)"

I am having a few problems setting up Django Piston. I have managed to get as far as generating authentication via the oauth_client.py sample shown here (http://github.com/clemesha/django-piston-oauth-example). When I run "python oauth_client.py" i am taken to http://localhost:8000/api/oauth/authorize/?oauth_token=8wm33jeWR92BpsrHjs wher...

Templatetag calendar raises error

I'm tyring to use this snippet as my event calendar. Unfortunately it constantly raises new errors. Currently I get: TemplateSyntaxError at /event/while-rendering-nothing-repeat/ Caught an exception while rendering: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'date' I'm pretty sure it comes from the line : if day >= event.date.date() and day...

What triggers form validation for a Django formset?

I have a from based on ModelForm and use formset_factory to create a formset based on two dictionaries. There is also one extra form. In my view, I use the formset JS plugin and I delete the two forms with data. When I POST the remaining empty extra form, it fails validation because of a required field. I don't understand why that form...

Formset Creating New Entries Instead of Updating

I have the following code in a view: def controller_details(request, object_id): controller = Controller.objects.get(pk=object_id) controllerURI = controller.protocol + '://' + controller.server + '/' + controller.name FilterFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Controller, Filter, extra=2) if request.method == 'POST': ...

mongodb for django

I like mongodb and django,and there are some frameworks to select: mongodbengine django-mongodb-engine Mongodbengine has good performance and django ORM like api,but when serialize ,it's not supported now. Django-mongodb-engine is a django backend,you can use it with django ORM. So django-mongodb-engine is better? and how about its...

Remove all the elements in a foreign key select field

I have a foreign key reference which shows up as a select box on the client but it is pre-populated with values. I want the select box to be empty when it shows because it will be populated by an Ajax call. This is my model class RecipeIngredient(models.Model): recipe = models.ForeignKey(Recipe) ingredient = models.ForeignKey(I...

google charts url works in img tag but not in browser location bar

Hi, I'm using django-googlecharts to generate a simple pie chart. Inside the img tag, it works just fine, but if I paste the img src in the location bar of the browser, google returns "Bad Request", "Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request". I followed the example in the django-googlecharts documentation here: http://gith...

Accessing Django template {{Variable}} from JavaScript

I tried to access django template variable in html page inline javascript, it works fine. But if I include js using <script src="..> then it dont work. Is this limitation or I'm doing something wrong? I really appreciate your help. ...

Hosting Django on a shared FastCGI host.

Hi, I am trying to set up django shared hosting at iPage.com using FastCGI but I keep running into issue. The CGI script lods in the browser as text instead of executing. Below is the .htaccess and the fcgi script .htacess AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cgi-bin/my...

dynamicaly populate input text box value on select onchange

models.py class Subject(models.Model): code = models.CharField(max_length = 31) name = models.CharField(max_length = 31) credit = models.CharField(max_length = 31) def __unicode__(self): return str(self.code) + "-"+ str(self.name) class Student(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length = 31) ...

Filtering in Python/Django based on date, ignoring time

I'd like to filter objects to the day with datetime, but can't find examples on how to do this anywhere. This, for example, works perfectly in pulling together all following events: @login_required def invoice_picker(request): """Grab a date from the URL and show all the invoicable deliveries for that day.""" query = request.GE...

Django: in a 1 to N model, is there a simple way to look up related objects?

class Blog(models.Model): name = models.CharField() def get_posts_belonging_to_this_blog_instance(self): return Post.objects.filter(blog__exact=self.id) class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField() def get_posts_with_this_category(self): return Post.objects.filter(category__exact=self.id) class Post(models.Model): ...

Django : Getting an instace of a model based on a static location

Lets say I have this model class Egg(models.Model): file = FileField(upload_to='media') img = ImageField(upload_to='media') How to get an Egg instance if I only have the file URL string like 'http://example.com/media/spam.tar.gz'? Can I query by this URL?? ...

How many rows were deleted?

Is it possible to check how many rows were deleted by a query? queryset = MyModel.object.filter(foo=bar) queryset.delete() deleted = ... Or should I use transactions for that? @transaction.commit_on_success def delete_some_rows(): queryset = MyModel.object.filter(foo=bar) deleted = queryset.count() queryset.delete() PHP...

Complete 'django piston with oauth support' example

Hi, I have followed a number of tutorials and examples on the web to setup and use django piston. They all work flawlessly, until i try to integrate oauth authentication. I have been working against the following examples: http://blog.carduner.net/2010/01/26/django-piston-and-oauth/ http://github.com/clemesha/django-piston-oauth-exampl...

How to generate GAE db model from Django non-rel model?

I want to use the remote_api to update the GAE bigtable (which can do save on many objects at once). However the model is created in Django and I don't have the bigtable model. Is there something like sqlall that produce the GAE model classes from Django non-rel? ...

What are the major components of an affiliate marketing system?

I am thinking of "rolling my own" Affiliate marketing system - using either PHP (or more preferably, Python). I am relatively new to Affiliate marketing, so before I get started though I wanted to make sure that I had covered all bases, and was also not reinventing the wheel (in terms of there being a good open source [Python based] syst...

Django: construct form without validating fields?

Hi, I have a form MyForm which I update using ajax as the user fills it out. I have a view method which updates the form by constructing a MyForm from request.POST and feeding it back. def update_form(request): if request.method == 'POST': dict = {} dict['form'] = MyForm(request.POST).as_p() return HttpResp...