Re: [GSoC] Switching to Jinja2 proposal

2014-02-08 Thread Curtis Maloney
Can I suggest a 3) to this? After getting involved with the internals of the template engine recently, I came to the suspicion that a lot of the speed issues come from highly defensive coding. Now, this is generally to be expected when safety is more important than speed, but I am moderately firm

Re: [GSoC] Switching to Jinja2 proposal

2014-02-08 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Christopher Medrela wrote: > Hello! GSoC 2014 is coming and I'm thinking about issue to work on. > > The template system is one of the components that are of special interest > to me. > One of the major issues is that rendering templates is slow. The problem > coul

Re: GSoC query

2014-02-08 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Christopher Medrela wrote: > There is a list of ideas [1] and both improving aggregates and annotations > as well as improving error messages are listed there, so I suppose these > ideas are still open. > They're definitely still "open" in the sense that the probl

[GSoC] Switching to Jinja2 proposal

2014-02-08 Thread Christopher Medrela
Hello! GSoC 2014 is coming and I'm thinking about issue to work on. The template system is one of the components that are of special interest to me. One of the major issues is that rendering templates is slow. The problem could be solved by compiling template to Python bytecode, but it seems to

Re: GSoC query

2014-02-08 Thread Aymeric Augustin
On 8 févr. 2014, at 22:02, Christopher Medrela wrote: > AFAIK, there is no problem if there is more than one student working on the > same idea. In practice, I don't think we would allocate two slots to the same idea. However, an proposal that wasn't thoroughly discussed on this mailing-list h

Re: GSoC query

2014-02-08 Thread Christopher Medrela
There is a list of ideas [1] and both improving aggregates and annotations as well as improving error messages are listed there, so I suppose these ideas are still open. Google doesn't allow you to submit your proposal before March 10, but the submission is only a formality and this doesn't me

`prefetch_related` for non-homogenous data and "weak" lookups through GFKs

2014-02-08 Thread andrew.pashkin
With GenericForeignKey functionality, it is possible to refer to arbitrary model. Let's ay we have Like model, which is naturally may refer to many types of data (blogposts, users, photos, comments, etc). And so it is desireable to be able to perform such lookups: Like.objects.prefetch_related

GSoC query

2014-02-08 Thread anubhav joshi
Well I am thinking to work on aggregates and annotation, and improving the error messages part. I just want to know if these are still open. And what is the procedure if more than one student submit similar proposals or what if one submits it before then whether it remains open for another? Can w

GSoC Project Ideas

2014-02-08 Thread anubhav joshi
Well I am thinking to work on aggregates and annotation, and improving the error messages part. I just want to know if these are still open. And what is the procedure if more than one student submit similar proposals or what if one submits it before then whether it remains open for another? --

Re: Multiple dates in single date field

2014-02-08 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Harjot Mann wrote: > Is it possible to add more than one date in a single date field in django? > How can a user do this if one wants to add? > This isn't really an appropriate question for django-developers. If you're looking for help using Django, you should be a