Re: Authentication by email+pass

2006-05-24 Thread Rudolph
Hi, One of my customers also wants this. One thing I thought of is making the e-mailadress case insensitive; only storing lowercase e-mailaddress and lowercase the user input address when loggin in. Another thing when not really using the username field is to fill it with an as long as possible r

FYI: Primitive Python Version of GWT Working

2006-05-24 Thread nkeric
http://jtauber.com/blog/2006/05/23/primitive_python_version_of_gwt_working Someone posted this to our site: James Tauber has built "a Python equivalent to the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)" - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit It's interesting :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

Re: Searching on a calculated value

2006-05-24 Thread Gary Wilson
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > On 5/23/06, Gary Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I guess I could split the text entered and then do a search for > > each word in both first_name and last_name like the admin interface > > does... just seems like this would return many more results than wanted >

Re: Unhappy, reinventing

2006-05-24 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/24/06, Elver Loho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also look at some alternatives there, including one that I'm really > excited about. I think it could be integrated on top of Django rather > easily, but I'm not sure if my Python-fu is up to the challenge. > > It's just my 2 cents, but, hell,

Unhappy, reinventing

2006-05-24 Thread Elver Loho
I used to code stuff with TurboGears, which started sucking rather fast. I still liked their templating engine, Kid. Sort of. I've also tried Zope 3's and Django's, a couple of homegrown ones, Interchange's as used on our big webstore and a bunch of others. As far as I'm concerned, they all have f

Re: [PATCH] FileField with custom upload_to

2006-05-24 Thread Jay Parlar
I went ahead and filed a patch with Trac, http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1994 Jay P. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@goog

Re: Django memory leak?

2006-05-24 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 23:22 +0200, Christian Schneider wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm using django in a server that is written as a twistd application. > I've noticed that the memory footprint of the server grows heavily the > longer it runs. When I commented out all sections calling django > memory us

Re: Post data for multi step form

2006-05-24 Thread Ian Holsman
On 25/05/2006, at 3:11 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote: > > tomass wrote: >> > > I actually like that solution (among other things it scales on a > cluster > without hammering a central db or having to distribute sessions). > But if > you want you could store data on the server and pass a form 'sessi

Re: Django memory leak?

2006-05-24 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/24/06, Christian Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZRSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > dwasrod 3487 48.7 0.7 18648 15164 ? Ss 22:48 0:01 > /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/bin/twistd -o -y jobs-application.py How big is your peak usage? Co

Django memory leak?

2006-05-24 Thread Christian Schneider
Hi all,I'm using django in a server that is written as a twistd application. I've noticed that the memory footprint of the server grows heavily the longer it runs. When I commented out all sections calling django memory usage stays constant. So on first sight it seems the guilt lies with Django. Be

Re: Comment URLs hardcoded?

2006-05-24 Thread Phil Powell
And in addition, for anyone who's interested, if you change the default path from /comments/ for your commenting, you'll need this patch: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1997 It will rectify an issue with posted forms redirecting to the wrong location. -Phil On 24/05/06, Phil Powell <[EMA

Re: Comment URLs hardcoded?

2006-05-24 Thread Phil Powell
Well, I found a simple solution to my own problem, so for the archives: If you place files form.html and freeform.html in a directory called comments/ within your templates/ directory, they will override the default templates! Nice and simple, and obvious when I thought about it a little - this

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think so... In the other hand, maybe I must borrow other concept from dotnetnuke. Leveraging the template system, I have: templates\basetemplateshere.htm templates\blog\blogtemplateshere.html Maybe if I go this way: templates\Site1\customizedbase.html templates\Site1\blog\customizedblogtemp

Re: I need instructions in best way to use django under IIS shared hosting (Python is installed)

2006-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I know... I have the option to get Linux as a fallback. The reason? I have everything now under this package, the databases, the sites, the expertise. I have almost zero experience in run linux and configure this... Anyway, despite the fact if I go to Linux or not, I think that persue the optio

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread Wilson Miner
Seems like you would get better results from your time by writing a script to replace relative paths with absolute urls. On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok. > > Like I say, I understand the reason in separate the dynamic from the > static, despite the fact this is the

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread James Bennett
On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is this: > > I have designers. I'll be sure to let our designers know that they're a problem, because they sure haven't had this issue. > Some have a webserver, some not. So, I get the desing I need to remake > the links or f

Re: is_active isn't honored by django.contrib.auth.views.login()

2006-05-24 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to be able to log in as a user with the is_active flag not set > to True. > A validator in django.contrib.auth.forms.AuthenticationForm should test > for that. > > I'd log a bug, but as far as I can tell there's no place in the bug

Re: I need instructions in best way to use django under IIS shared hosting (Python is installed)

2006-05-24 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I think is very confusing. Is not starnge then people fear to test > python for web hosting: is far more dificult that any other web-enable > language in the deploy side of the things... In your own self-interest: you've said you plan

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok. Like I say, I understand the reason in separate the dynamic from the static, despite the fact this is the first time I learn about this arguments (never before from my ASP.NET experience or PHP experience I read anything like that)... however this is not my issue. The problem is this: I hav

Re: Post data for multi step form

2006-05-24 Thread Bill de hÓra
tomass wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm sure there's a better solution for this, just not sure what it > is... > > I have a 4 step form and I'm currently capturing all posted data > between each step and then re-posting it through hidden input fields > and recapturing it at each successive step. URL r

Re: I need instructions in best way to use django under IIS shared hosting (Python is installed)

2006-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I read anything I get in google about IIS/FastCGI/Django deployment/WSGI and that stuff.. And I think is very confusing. Is not starnge then people fear to test python for web hosting: is far more dificult that any other web-enable language in the deploy side of the things... I read the ActiveS

Comment URLs hardcoded?

2006-05-24 Thread Phil Powell
I just wanted to pose this question before raising a ticket, or starting to work on a patch, just incase someone's got a workaround. I'm implementing contrib.comments, and everything works fine in a basic dev setup. However, I'm running into a problem when trying to deploy on a more complex setu

Re: [PATCH] FileField with custom upload_to

2006-05-24 Thread Jay Parlar
On 5/24/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would prefer self.upload_to to be restored to its original value after > call. Otherwise a call to save_*_file with a custom parameter would > change object's "global" behavior which is very counter-intuitive. In > fact I think custom uploa

Re: thanks for the BadContent

2006-05-24 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 5/23/06, pbx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to offer my thanks to Adrian (and anybody else who worked > on this) for adding some spam defense to the Trac server. For those of > us who check the timeline often, it's a big relief. Hey, it's my pleasure. The spam defense appears to be w

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Bill de hÓra wrote: >One tip: don't start your path with '/media': it might conflict with the >admin app if you have it installed. > > BTW you can overwrite admin's media path with ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX (http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#admin-media-prefix) --~--~-~--

Re: [PATCH] FileField with custom upload_to

2006-05-24 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Jay Parlar wrote: >+def save_func(instance, filename, raw_contents, upload_to=""): >+if upload_to: >+self.upload_to = upload_to >+instance._save_FIELD_file(self, filename, raw_contents) >+setattr(cls, 'save_%s_file' % self.name, save_func) >

[PATCH] FileField with custom upload_to

2006-05-24 Thread Jay Parlar
Is this patch useful/correct enough to warrant submitting a ticket? Index: django/db/models/fields/__init__.py === --- django/db/models/fields/__init__.py (revision 2970) +++ django/db/models/fields/__init__.py (working copy) @@ -56

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread Bill de hÓra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For example, the "feature" of not serve static files. The worst? I > don't can relly in the available workarounds to this "feature" (yeah I > put "feature" for be sarcasting... I understand the reason, the why, > but be patiente: I have a deadline too and this experimen

Re: over writing a file in ADmin

2006-05-24 Thread Jay Parlar
We had a long discussion about this very topic recently, search for the thread "Accessing a field's upload_to strftime". It didn't start out with what you're asking, but it certainly ended there. Jay P. On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm using Django 0.9

Authentication by email+pass

2006-05-24 Thread spacedman
I dont want my users to have to bother with a username. I want them to authenticate with their email as their username. But django wont allow valid @ signs (and other stuff) in a username. I could patch that but that could bite me badly. So I found a better way. First I create a manipulator: fro

over writing a file in ADmin

2006-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All, I'm using Django 0.91 and I have a slight problem with overwriting files. In seems that by default admin does not allow one to overwrite an existing file and I want to do that.ie, if I save a file call myfile.jpg and upload and identically named file to the same location using the admin

Re: xml

2006-05-24 Thread mary
I got an idea and i am tring it now and i think it will succeded if we considered the xml file as normal file and we write in it as we write in files using output.write('test here') this idea will solve the problem without using any python xml i think Howver thanks for all the people that answere

Re: xml

2006-05-24 Thread Matt McDonald
wiz wrote: > On 5/24/06, Mary Adel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How could i return the data from the database in a xml file with certain >> format using the views in Django > You can use generic_views + templates for printing XML in your format. > Or views + some pythonic XML-streamer. > > > Is

Re: xml

2006-05-24 Thread Matt McDonald
You might be able to use Django's Syndication Framework to output the XML by setting up a custom feed that uses your required format instead of RSS. Lots of information can be found at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/syndication/ Hope it helps. : ) Mary Adel wrote: > Can any one help i

Re: xml

2006-05-24 Thread wiz
On 5/24/06, Mary Adel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How could i return the data from the database in a xml file with certain > format using the views in Django You can use generic_views + templates for printing XML in your format. Or views + some pythonic XML-streamer. --~--~-~--~~-

problems setting up individual page caching

2006-05-24 Thread Vladikio
Hi, I'm trying to cache an individual page (thus using the simple cache_page decorator) and I came across those questions : - why is it necessary to add CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS to my settings ? I dont use the middleware, just the cache_page decorator - is there a way to cache a page (using

Re: xml

2006-05-24 Thread David Reynolds
On 24 May 2006, at 9:47 am, Mary Adel wrote: > > Can any one help in the following > > How could i return the data from the database in a xml file with > certain > format > using the views in Django You could perhaps try Python/XML... http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/topics/howto/xml-how

Re: How fix the "feature" of not serving static files?

2006-05-24 Thread Phil Powell
There's one very good reason why Django (and any other framework / CMS worth it's salt) deliberately avoids serving static files, and that reason is "performance". Your content serving mechanism should be about retrieving and manipulating content data, and performance can be haevily impacted if a

xml

2006-05-24 Thread Mary Adel
Can any one help in the following How could i return the data from the database in a xml file with certain format using the views in Django Thanks, Mary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django use

Re: CharField with utf-8 handling

2006-05-24 Thread Matt McDonald
hironobu wrote: > nkeric wrote: >>> I guess it should be something reated to mysql's internal encoding? >>> AFAIK, you will need to specified mysql's encoding to utf-8 before >>> using it :) >> - since mysql version >= 5.0 :) > > Thank you. > > MySQL version is 4.1, so it may differ a little fro

Re: CharField with utf-8 handling

2006-05-24 Thread hironobu
Malcolm writes: >I think you forgot to attach the patch. :-) Yes, indeed. Thank you. I posted the patch. And now I'm checking MySQL settings and 5.0's handling. This problem may disappear on another environment, then I'll report details later. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--

Re: generic view: list articles by category?

2006-05-24 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
nkeric wrote: >yep, agree too :) did you ever open a ticket with your patch? > > No I didn't. Feel free to do it and make a patch :-) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post t

drop down

2006-05-24 Thread Mary Adel
Can anyone help in this How to create a drop down box in the admin interface that takes it is data from the database Thanks, Mary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

Re: CharField with utf-8 handling

2006-05-24 Thread hironobu
nkeric wrote: >> I guess it should be something reated to mysql's internal encoding? >> AFAIK, you will need to specified mysql's encoding to utf-8 before >> using it :) >- since mysql version >= 5.0 :) Thank you. MySQL version is 4.1, so it may differ a little from your guess, but this is reall

Re: generic view: list articles by category?

2006-05-24 Thread nkeric
Ivan Sagalaev wrote: > This is the question of where you stop adding functionality to > generic views. On one end there is a solution so basic that it is not > useful to anyone and on the other end there is a solution so bloated > that nobody event wants to start to learn how to use it :-). I thin

Re: CharField with utf-8 handling

2006-05-24 Thread nkeric
nkeric wrote: > I guess it should be something reated to mysql's internal encoding? > AFAIK, you will need to specified mysql's encoding to utf-8 before > using it :) - since mysql version >= 5.0 :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: CharField with utf-8 handling

2006-05-24 Thread nkeric
FYI, we're using django's 0.95 trunk version to handle Chinese contents, django works properly whether with sqlite3 or postgresql as its db backend. pre-magic-removal django worked properly too. I guess it should be something reated to mysql's internal encoding? AFAIK, you will need to specified

Re: generic view: list articles by category?

2006-05-24 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
nkeric wrote: >btw, how about creating a more generic patch for django's generic view >methods? Since this is really a "generic" scenario - I usually need to >"get some object list by some condition" :) > > Actually I asked on django-dev if this thing would be of any interest if I implement it

Re: generic view: list articles by category?

2006-05-24 Thread nkeric
Matthew McDonald wrote: > That would be extremely handy to have. I too thought Nkeric's first > pattern should work how it looks: hey, that's a good idea IMO :) I guess I'm going to spend sometime on it to see if I could create a patch for this base on Ivan's approach & Matthew's idea :) --~--~