Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Solovyov
On Nov 8, 2007 1:46 PM, Amit Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > See if this is of any help: > http://www.amitu.com/blog/2007/july/django-extending-user-model/ He-he, so you have already done something like my proposal. :) Nice. But lets' listen what core developers think about making this the

template numbering help

2007-11-08 Thread Jake2891
Hi Guys, I have a report that connects to a db and draws users details. What i need help with is that for example in my template i need numbering to start from 1 - total entrants eg 1. name , surname etc... 2. name ... {% if comp_list %} {% for comp in comp_list %} {{ comp.id }} # Although t

Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Amit Upadhyay
On Nov 8, 2007 5:08 PM, Alexander Solovyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Django have known trouble with default User object, which is not > always appropriate for > all applications, when they need additional information. Of course, we > have solution with > user profile and get_profile,

Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Jonathan Buchanan
On Nov 8, 2007 6:38 AM, Alexander Solovyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - (main trouble) if you have absolutely different applications, which > use profile for their > own purposes, you need to merge their Profile models - trouble is in > the updating of > this thing (f.e., you have forum, cre

contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Solovyov
Hi, Django have known trouble with default User object, which is not always appropriate for all applications, when they need additional information. Of course, we have solution with user profile and get_profile, but it is not very nice solution and have imperfections: ;-) - it is not fetched auto

Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread eXt
On 8 Lis, 12:54, "Alexander Solovyov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 1:46 PM, Amit Upadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > See if this is of any help: > >http://www.amitu.com/blog/2007/july/django-extending-user-model/ I have used a method called "lost theories solution" in the po

Re: form_for_instance and form argument, empty form?

2007-11-08 Thread David Larlet
Marty Alchin a écrit : > On 11/7/07, David Larlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately, what happens with my Form is exactly what I'd like to do: >> create a generic form from a Form class which define fields (with >> widgets, etc) and methods and which is initialized with the content

Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Alexander Solovyov
On Nov 8, 2007 2:21 PM, Jonathan Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On this particular point, from the perspective of the reusable > applications themselves, you don't need to worry about merging profile > models, even if you are potentially working with many of them in your > overall project.

Re: contrib.auth and User model

2007-11-08 Thread Jonathan Buchanan
On Nov 8, 2007 7:41 AM, Alexander Solovyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2007 2:21 PM, Jonathan Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On this particular point, from the perspective of the reusable > > applications themselves, you don't need to worry about merging profile > > models,

Re: template numbering help

2007-11-08 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Hi Jake -- Please direct questions of this nature to django-users; django-dev is used to discuss the development of Django itself, not to answer usage questions. Thanks! Jacob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

TimestampField

2007-11-08 Thread Winsley von Spee
Hello, I have implemeted a TimestampField that maps betweem unixtimestamps and datetime.datetime objects, so i can use Datetime in Django while not having to convert all timestamps to datetime fields yet. I need that for downwards compatibility for an old application that uses the same database.

Re: ModelForms

2007-11-08 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:26 -0600, Joseph Kocherhans wrote: > form_for_model and form_for_instance seem like complicated and clever > ways to accomplish what basically boils down to a form that has a save > method and can accept a model instance in its constructor method. > > I propose we (or I r

caching problems in the documentation pages

2007-11-08 Thread Manlio Perillo
Hi. I have noted that Firefox does not caches well the pages of Django documentation: GET /documentation/cache/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.djangoproject.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071004 Iceweasel/2.0.0.8 (Debian-2.0.0.6+2.0.0.8-0etch1) Accept: text/xml,a

Re: TimestampField

2007-11-08 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:40 +0100, Winsley von Spee wrote: > Hello, > > I have implemeted a TimestampField that maps betweem unixtimestamps and > datetime.datetime objects, so i can use Datetime in Django while not > having to convert all timestamps to datetime fields yet. I need that for > downw

Re: caching problems in the documentation pages

2007-11-08 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 22:08 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: > Hi. > > I have noted that Firefox does not caches well the pages of Django > documentation: > > GET /documentation/cache/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.djangoproject.com > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.8.1.8) > Gecko/200

auth messages should be lazy

2007-11-08 Thread SmileyChris
It seems silly that currently the auth message system calls get_and_delete_messages for every request context (assuming you have the auth context processor enabled, like it is by default). 1. You lose messages if you don't actually check for them 2. If you didn't check for it, and therefore won'

Re: DecimalField returns default value as unicode string.

2007-11-08 Thread Collin Grady
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said the following: > Not sure why, but when I tried to submit a ticked for this it was > rejected repeatedly as suspected spam. If you register for a trac account it should avoid that issue. -- Collin Grady Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, b

DecimalField returns default value as unicode string.

2007-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Right now (unless I misread it) Django returns any non-callable default value using "force_unicode". This means that if you have a decimal field with a default value you have to save the model, and then retrieve it back from the database for that model to return the correct default value. I think