How to generate an edit form for django comments

2012-07-03 Thread Sachin Gupta
Hi, I wanted to have a functionality to be able to edit the comments posted using the comments app (not from the admin, from the site and only for logged in users). As much as I know Django, to render an edit form we need to pass an instance of the object to the form which has to be edited lik

Re: Proposal: use SQLAlchemy Core for query generation

2012-07-03 Thread Michael Manfre
On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:42:28 AM UTC-4, Luke Granger-Brown wrote: > > In new versions of virtualenv the default has changed to > --no-site-packages, at least on Linux. Is this not also the case for > Windows? > > Luke > > Unfortunately, it is the same for windows. Every python project that

Re: I think adding a "first" method to the QuerySet be useful.

2012-07-03 Thread Luke Plant
On 03/07/12 05:27, Maxime Haineault wrote: > One of the common pitfall I come across way to often with novices is > something like this: > > def getFirstUser(): > return User.objects.all()[0] > > It looks innocuous and often wont raise any exceptions in dev because > you develop and t

Re: I think adding a "first" method to the QuerySet be useful.

2012-07-03 Thread Daniel Sokolowski
Shouldn’t it make sense to make it: User.objects.first() ? I assume first() is just a custom method on the objects manager, which would mean you could chain them, and so have objects.all().first(); this also makes the code more readable in a template: {{ users.first }} as opposed to {{ users.a

Re: Proposal: use SQLAlchemy Core for query generation

2012-07-03 Thread Luke Granger-Brown
On Jul 3, 2012 1:59 PM, "Chris Wilson" wrote: > > Hi Reinout, > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Reinout van Rees wrote: > >> On 30-06-12 16:22, Luke Plant wrote: >>> >>> Also, in Django to date we've eschewed external dependencies. That has >>> been partly due to the poor and confusing state of Python pac

Re: Proposal: use SQLAlchemy Core for query generation

2012-07-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Reinout, On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Reinout van Rees wrote: On 30-06-12 16:22, Luke Plant wrote: Also, in Django to date we've eschewed external dependencies. That has been partly due to the poor and confusing state of Python packaging, which is hopefully improving. [snip] Our current recommende

Re: Proposal: use SQLAlchemy Core for query generation

2012-07-03 Thread Reinout van Rees
On 30-06-12 16:22, Luke Plant wrote: Also, in Django to date we've eschewed external dependencies. That has been partly due to the poor and confusing state of Python packaging, which is hopefully improving. [snip] Our current recommended installation method is via pip [2], and we would be doing

Re: I think adding a "first" method to the QuerySet be useful.

2012-07-03 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi all, On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Łukasz Rekucki wrote: On 3 July 2012 06:27, Maxime Haineault wrote: One of the common pitfall I come across way to often with novices is something like this: def getFirstUser(): return User.objects.all()[0] It looks innocuous and often wont raise any e

Re: I think adding a "first" method to the QuerySet be useful.

2012-07-03 Thread Kiril Vladimirov
We shouldn't bloat the API. Obviously there are nice looking approaches and not to mention the different behaviour in some of them. -1 on this proposal from me. On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 8:22:59 AM UTC+3, Łukasz Rekucki wrote: > > On 3 July 2012 06:27, Maxime Haineault wrote: > > One of the co