Re: multiple column primary key

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Brian May wrote: > > Having composite pks can have a gotcha. For example, in my mysql based > database, my legacy application had the primary key (from memory) in a table > of > (photo_id,album_id) - this was a table linking photos

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Brian May wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:27:35AM +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: >> If you're going to start throwing around claims that loaddata/dumpdata >> doesn't work, you _really_ need to back them up with a

Re: Can't find templates (?) when deploying with Apache and mod_wsgi

You do realise that Apache will generally run your application as a special user. If that special user doesn't have read access to stuff, then things can not work properly. See: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ApplicationIssues#Access_Rights_Of_Apache_User There is a lot of

Re: Bug in admin related to django.root

On Jun 4, 9:56 am, Kevin Audleman wrote: > Hi gang, > > I am serving my django website out of a sub-folder, > e.g.http://www.mydomain.com/directory. My hosting provider is WebFaction > and they've set things up so that the /directory part is stripped from > the URL

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:27:35AM +0800, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > If you're going to start throwing around claims that loaddata/dumpdata > doesn't work, you _really_ need to back them up with a demonstrated > example that proves your claim. We provide Trac for precisely this > reason, and

mod_wsgi manage.py

I wanted to see if I could deploy my project on Apache on a windows server using mod_wsgi. I got it working. The only problem is now I can not run the development environment using manage.py I am using Pyscripter and I now get this message every time I run manage.py Command Line : runserver

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Brian May wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Kegan wrote: >> 1. Use Django's management command "dumpdata" to get the JSON >> representative of an app. Save the JSON into a file (oldmodel.json). >> 2. Git pull the

Re: multiple column primary key

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote: > > Django does not currently support multiple column primary keys, see: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/373 At the very least django should complain loudly when you try this. I didn't realize my database (from a legacy

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Kegan wrote: > 1. Use Django's management command "dumpdata" to get the JSON > representative of an app. Save the JSON into a file (oldmodel.json). > 2. Git pull the latest code. And do a reset to the app. So the > database will have the new model schema

Newb problem with form wizard

My non-wizard templates are in this directory, all working as expected: my_wha_templates/wha/ I have built a form wizard in my whasite.wha.forms.py exactly as per the docs. I have pasted the suggested template HTML into a file: my_wha_templates/wha/contact/forms/wizard.html My urls.py is

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Jun 3, 7:11 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:59 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > > On Jun 3, 5:22 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > On Jun 3, 3:05 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > > > > On

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Jun 3, 5:59 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > On Jun 3, 5:22 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > > On Jun 3, 3:05 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Don Spaulding > > >

Re: Bug in admin related to django.root

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Kevin Audleman wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I am serving my django website out of a sub-folder, e.g. > http://www.mydomain.com/directory. My hosting provider is WebFaction > and they've set things up so that the /directory part is stripped

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Kegan Gan wrote: > > Hi Russell, > > On the first issue: Good point. I have not the opportunity to work > with such a huge database. > > On the second issue: Yes, what I am doing now is really about writing > conversion code to fit the old json

Re: Ignoring the word "The"

A more general solution is to create a another database field for sorting/searching. If you override the model's save() method to copy the field's value, removing any characters you don't want (it could be language independent, so would remove "Der/Die/Das" from german titles, or it can do

Bug in admin related to django.root

Hi gang, I am serving my django website out of a sub-folder, e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/directory. My hosting provider is WebFaction and they've set things up so that the /directory part is stripped from the URL before it reaches my django app (so my app sees "/"). In order to get django to

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Jun 3, 5:22 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > On Jun 3, 3:05 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Don Spaulding > > wrote: > > > > bump. > > > > Can anyone tell me if this looks like a bug in

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > On Jun 3, 3:05 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Don Spaulding >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > bump. > > > > > Can anyone tell me

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Jun 3, 3:05 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Don Spaulding wrote: > > > > > > > bump. > > > Can anyone tell me if this looks like a bug in Django? > > > On Jun 1, 6:12 pm, Don Spaulding

Getting started on mac

Hello, I've just installed the development version in leopard on the mac, and when I did this step: "On Unix-like systems, create a symbolic link to the file django-trunk/ django/bin/django-admin.py in a directory on your system path, such as /usr/local/bin. For example: ln -s

Re: Getting started on mac

Thanks Alex! That's just what I wanted to know, could I switch easily. I would rather put off some of that configuration time! W On Jun 3, 3:14 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, zignorp wrote: > > > I just fixed this and it's

Re: Error when Rendering form with ModelChoiceField

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, justind wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using the following to provide a select box with filtered choices: > > class AssetForm(ModelForm): >"""Asset form takes a project id. It only allows workstreams > attached to >this project name."""

Re: Getting started on mac

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, zignorp wrote: > > I just fixed this and it's working swimmingly. It seems that 10.5 > doesn't come with that directory, so I just did what I said I would in > the last paragraph, and I have my first page. I'm very excited. Now > I have to

Re: Ignoring the word "The"

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andy Dietler wrote: > > Is there an easy way to ignore the word "The" when returning a list > using "__startswith=" in Django/Python? > > I've looked around but it's hard to make any ground when searching for > the word The. > > > > There

Error when Rendering form with ModelChoiceField

Hello, I'm using the following to provide a select box with filtered choices: class AssetForm(ModelForm): """Asset form takes a project id. It only allows workstreams attached to this project name.""" workstreams = forms.ModelChoiceField(Workstream, None) def __init__(self,

Re: Getting started on mac

I just fixed this and it's working swimmingly. It seems that 10.5 doesn't come with that directory, so I just did what I said I would in the last paragraph, and I have my first page. I'm very excited. Now I have to decide whether to go through the pain of getting mysql working right with

Ignoring the word "The"

Is there an easy way to ignore the word "The" when returning a list using "__startswith=" in Django/Python? I've looked around but it's hard to make any ground when searching for the word The. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Using COMMENTS_APP setting

Hello, following http://aartemenko.com/texts/optional-email-in-django- comments/ I try to configure comments in a way that the email address is not required. I changed my settings.py INSTALLED_APPS = ( [...] 'xgm.Blog.comments', ) COMMENTS_APP = 'xgm.Blog.comments'

Re: query aggregates

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Bobby Roberts wrote: > > hi group > > how would i write a filter to do the equivalent of this sql query: > > "select year,count(year) from tablename order by year desc" > > to produce a result such as > > 2009 1000 > 2008 750 > 2007

Modifying the way a ChoiceField is rendered

Hi - I'm trying to change the way a ChoiceField (with widget = forms.RadioSelect) is being rendered in a template. Currently, rendering the form as_p() for instance, will return HTML such as: choice 1 ... Is there a way to control how this ChoiceField is rendered? I'd like to use something

query aggregates

hi group how would i write a filter to do the equivalent of this sql query: "select year,count(year) from tablename order by year desc" to produce a result such as 2009 1000 2008 750 2007 722 ... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Django user Indonesia meetup

--- In id-pyt...@yahoogroups.com, Pramuko Aji wrote: > > Siap Pak Wid! Insya Allah saya datang hari Kamis, sekalian mampir ke RICE :D > Saya sih siapnya jadi suporter doang. Kalo sampeyan butuh bala bantuan tinggal call saya, ntar saya bantuin sebisa mungkin :) Gimana acaranya?

Re: multiple column primary key

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alex Gaynor wrote: >so the question is: if i don't define a pk for an >> existing table, there will be problems in the application? for example >> when deciding if a save() should be an insert or an update? >> > > Django does not currently

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Don Spaulding wrote: > > bump. > > Can anyone tell me if this looks like a bug in Django? > > On Jun 1, 6:12 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've got a quick use case that I think should work

Re: annotate() + order_by() == aborted transaction?

bump. Can anyone tell me if this looks like a bug in Django? On Jun 1, 6:12 pm, Don Spaulding wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a quick use case that I think should work according to the > docs, but it's not.  In this case, Domain objects have a reverse fkey > relation

Re: Where should I do post form data processing?

thanks that's brilliant! I'm going to re-read the doc anyway. Bastien On Jun 3, 6:36 pm, Jashugan wrote: > On Jun 3, 8:20 am, Bastien wrote: > > > Yes it seems to be the logical solution. And does this override the > > save() method? I guess yes

Re: Ajax with JSON-RPC -- new Django handler

Sorry about the example having bad syntax (doh!) -- I will get that fixed. I chose the public__ prefix because it makes it easier to introspect the supplied instance to find the methods intended to be public without forcing users of the class to provide a list themselves. You can put the class

Re: Question: What's the best way to denormalize M2M data?

On May 19, 5:51 am, palewire wrote: > I've stumbled my way into methods for automatically denormalizing > ForeignKey data -- and now see that better  approaches have been > packaged up the very cool django-denorm(http://code.google.com/p/ > django-denorm/) -- which is

Slightly OT: Why use dpaste?

I get frustrated when I go to an older thread and someone has a link to dpaste, but the paste no longer exists. The whole point of the thread is to keep the solution of a particular issue available for posterity (or at least for a year). Dpaste, by default, doesn't allow for this[1]. I think

Re: Bug in login_required?

On Jun 3, 10:30 am, "eric.frederich" wrote: > Is there a technical reason that this can't be done?  I noticed I can > set LOGIN_URL in settings but it seems weird that everything else in > the system seems to work fine except this one piece.   I have to do this as

Can't find templates (?) when deploying with Apache and mod_wsgi

Hi, I have a simple Django application which runs appropriately in the Django development server. I am deploying it with Apache and mod_wsgi. Using a simple wsgi file as described in various deployment documents (e.g., http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modwsgi/), the

Re: Django Registration templates not talking to my other pages. Sometimes.

On Jun 2, 5:00 pm, Matt wrote: > //views.py > from django.template import RequestContext > def detail(request): > ... >     context = { 'employees': employees, 'entityinfo': entityinfo} >     return render_to_response('results/resultstable.html', >

Re: Ajax with JSON-RPC -- new Django handler

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, BenW wrote: > > I just posted a JSON-RPC handler I've been working with on the wiki: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Jsonrpc > > I'd be interested in feedback from anyone doing async javascript with > Django over RPC. > > Thanks! > >

Bug in login_required?

So the person in IT that runs our webserver didn't want django hogging up the root '/' because he likes to be able to just dump files in the htdocs directory and have it servable by the webserver. So now my django site is enabled in apache with... WSGIScriptAlias /apps

Reverse relation

The model's code is below. First thing I need is to retrieve all the places that are labelled e.g. "tea". So I just create a view a type: places = Place.objects.all() places = Place.objects.filter(primary_tags__name__contains="tea") But then additionally I need all the places that are open now,

Ajax with JSON-RPC -- new Django handler

I just posted a JSON-RPC handler I've been working with on the wiki: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Jsonrpc I'd be interested in feedback from anyone doing async javascript with Django over RPC. Thanks! Ben --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: How would I do this ...

> I am trying to figure out if there is a way to pass additional context > to a template from the view, say I have made a contact page but this > page needs to access a form, currently I don't know how I would  be > able to do that, that is, to pass the form context to whatever > template the

Re: Where should I do post form data processing?

On Jun 3, 8:20 am, Bastien wrote: > Yes it seems to be the logical solution. And does this override the > save() method? I guess yes so I'll have to save the entire form by > hand. Well it only overrides the save method if you are using a ModelForm. If you are, then

Re: Using the django orm outside a web system

thanks a lot everybody for your help, I really appreciate it jhv On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:44 +1930, Juan Hernandez wrote: > > Hey there people: > > > > I started developing a django application where a user takes a

Re: Django deployment

This is how I did it. You have have a settings_default.py, which contains all the commons settings. In your development environment, you use settings.py that has this on the top ... from settings_defaults import * ... then you overwrite whatever setting variables that are needed for your

Re: Using the django orm outside a web system

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:44 +1930, Juan Hernandez wrote: > Hey there people: > > I started developing a django application where a user takes a big > text file and loads it into a database. I have been able to do pretty > much everything but I've been having some problems on scheduling tasks >

Custom annotation: numbering rows?

Hello all, I know people have asked about custom aggregates/annotations before, but I haven't quite been able to figure out how to translate those discussions into what I need (or even if a custom aggregate is the way to go). Any advice would be much appreciated. What I would like to do is

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

Hi Russell, On the first issue: Good point. I have not the opportunity to work with such a huge database. On the second issue: Yes, what I am doing now is really about writing conversion code to fit the old json to match the new schema. I find this to be quite straight forward for my use cases,

Re: Using the django orm outside a web system

Django command extensions has 'runjob' and 'runjobs', one of which might do want you want. You can find the extensions at: http://code.google.com/p/django-command-extensions/ On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 10:44 +, Juan Hernandez wrote: > Hey there people: > > I started developing a django

Re: Where should I do post form data processing?

Yes it seems to be the logical solution. And does this override the save() method? I guess yes so I'll have to save the entire form by hand. I think I'm in for a good documentation reading... thanks for your guidance Jashugan. Bastien On Jun 3, 5:11 pm, Jashugan wrote: > On

Re: Using the django orm outside a web system

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Juan Hernandez wrote: > Hey there people: > > I started developing a django application where a user takes a big text > file and loads it into a database. I have been able to do pretty much > everything but I've been having some problems on

Using the django orm outside a web system

Hey there people: I started developing a django application where a user takes a big text file and loads it into a database. I have been able to do pretty much everything but I've been having some problems on scheduling tasks involving the django ORM. I know that python manage.py shell loads the

Re: Where should I do post form data processing?

On Jun 3, 2:09 am, Bastien wrote: > Hi, > > I have a form where the user chooses her activity and then I > automatically fill the category field in the database according to her > activity. My question is where should live the code that do that? I > want it to be

Re: Django deployment

On Jun 3, 1:16 am, vishy wrote: > for templates - I had given absolute path of directory on windows, > for database(using sqlite) - just the name.But, for deployment I had > to change both the paths. Is there any way which I can avoid this? > > thanks Another method is

Re: Automatically creating auth.models.group for an application

No, the issue isn't adding a user to that group, what I'm talking about is how do I create the group in the first place? I feel that creating the group should be done when running syncdb. On Jun 2, 4:27 pm, Daniel Hilton wrote: > 2009/6/2 eric.frederich

Re: multiple column primary key

Jaime, On Jun 3, 1:06 am, Jaime Casanova wrote: > Hi, > > I have an existing database, and want to create an application using > django to administer it... > I am creating the model classes but there are tables with more than > one field in the pk. so the question

Re: multiple column primary key

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Jaime Casanova wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an existing database, and want to create an application using > django to administer it... > I am creating the model classes but there are tables with more than > one field in the pk. so the

Re: Question about ForeignKeys and subclasses

Rex, My appologies. Though the feature is in 1.0 I gave a link to the 1.1 documentation. Django 1.0 docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/db/models/#id7 2009/6/3 Ian Lewis > Rex, > > Django parent model instances will also have a property equal to the >

Re: comments error

Looks like the next parameter doesn't really work though. See: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/109763039cef5c3d/470d678e46d7dfe0?hl=en=gst And: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/8968 2009/6/3 Ian Lewis > Iperk, > > Is this perhaps what

Re: comments error

Iperk, Is this perhaps what you are looking for? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/#redirecting-after-the-comment-post On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:38 AM, lperk wrote: > > Does someone know how to redirect posted comment to another page if > you have

Re: Question about ForeignKeys and subclasses

Rex, Django parent model instances will also have a property equal to the lowercase name of the subclass. So for Animal instances that happen to be a Duck you can do something like "my_room.animal.duck" to get the Duck instance. Depending on what you are doing you might want to try that. It's

Re: Django 1.1 to be in future Google App Engine release

On Jun 3, 11:25 am, Kegan wrote: > Just for everyone information, I believe Guido just said that Django > 1.1 will be in future Google App Engine release once it (Django 1.1) > is out of beta. > > Looking forward to this Django 1.1 final! > > Link here: > >

Re: Possible memory leak moving to Django 1.1 from 1.0.2 in mixed use test.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 1:22 AM, proteus...@gmail.com wrote: > > We've got an application that is running behind apache, mod_wsgi and > front ending a postgres 8.3 db. We needed to upgrade our Satchmo to > the latest version which requires Django 1.1.  After the upgrade the

Re: Using alternating url patterns

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 02:56 -0700, janedenone wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to use alternating url patterns without confusing the > reverse lookup mechanism? > > I'd like to do something like > > (r'^(authors|autoren)/(?P[_a-z]+)$', 'author_detail'), > > Kind regards, > Jan Define two

Using alternating url patterns

Hi, is it possible to use alternating url patterns without confusing the reverse lookup mechanism? I'd like to do something like (r'^(authors|autoren)/(?P[_a-z]+)$', 'author_detail'), Kind regards, Jan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Managers to aggregate child object values?

On Jun 3, 12:28 am, Streamweaver wrote: > I'm pretty new to Django still and I know much is still escaping me. > In particular I'm having trouble still with how to query subsets of > related objects. > > In this case I have two Models. > > class Project(models.Model): >  

Re: Django deployment

On Jun 3, 9:16 am, vishy wrote: > Hi, > > I am developing an application on windows. I decided to upload it on > webfaction n see how deployment goes. The issues I faced was with > paths given - > for templates - I had given absolute path of directory on windows, > for

Re: Do you use a skeleton for new django sites?

I used to use a skeleton, but the problem was that I couldn't easily upgrade the already "forked" projects to a newer version of the skeleton; I had to manually backport all changed to each project. The solution I finally adopted is to have a wrapper for site configuration (settings and urls) as

Where should I do post form data processing?

Hi, I have a form where the user chooses her activity and then I automatically fill the category field in the database according to her activity. My question is where should live the code that do that? I want it to be triggered once the user hits the submit button of the form, I take the

Re: Django deployment

Wiadomość napisana w dniu 2009-06-03, o godz. 10:16, przez vishy: > I am developing an application on windows. I decided to upload it on > webfaction n see how deployment goes. The issues I faced was with > paths given - > for templates - I had given absolute path of directory on windows, > for

Django deployment

Hi, I am developing an application on windows. I decided to upload it on webfaction n see how deployment goes. The issues I faced was with paths given - for templates - I had given absolute path of directory on windows, for database(using sqlite) - just the name.But, for deployment I had to

Re: Newbie pls help with stored values

Yes V, thank you. Thats clearly what I need here. Mike On Jun 3, 4:01 pm, V wrote: > I'm not sure that I understood your problem, but form wizards might be > what you are looking > forhttp://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard/ > I guess > >

multiple column primary key

Hi, I have an existing database, and want to create an application using django to administer it... I am creating the model classes but there are tables with more than one field in the pk. so the question is: if i don't define a pk for an existing table, there will be problems in the

Re: Managers to aggregate child object values?

On Jun 3, 1:28 am, Streamweaver wrote: > I'm pretty new to Django still and I know much is still escaping me. > In particular I'm having trouble still with how to query subsets of > related objects. > > In this case I have two Models. > > class Project(models.Model): >    

Re: Newbie pls help with stored values

I'm not sure that I understood your problem, but form wizards might be what you are looking for http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/formtools/form-wizard/ I guess On Jun 3, 8:04 am, adelaide_mike wrote: > I am a newbie with Django and web stuff, but

Re: dumpdata and loaddata as simple DB migration tool?

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Kegan wrote: > > Hi, > > About Django database migration. I know there's a couple of tools > available (South, evolution, dmigration, etc), but I am pondering an > alternative here. Hope good discussion entails. > > This is what I am doing

Newbie pls help with stored values

I am a newbie with Django and web stuff, but have long experience with desktop databases. In Django my user runs through a series of template.htmls choosing a particular great great grandchild object, a house. Then she must select a sales agent object. Just in general, how do I arrange for the