Re: modwsgi on suburl

my bad :). didn't really get his gist. just switched to wsgi myself. On Nov 25, 11:00 pm, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > On Nov 26, 5:04 pm, Some Guy wrote: > > > WSGIScriptAlias /test > > > should be > > >  WSGIScriptAlias / > > > not really sure what

Re: Alternative model without Database

I don't know your problem in detail, but as alternative I recommend read about twisted framework. If you work with xmlrpc servers and you need in call remote methods, then it help you. Simple exmaples: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/web/howto/xmlrpc.html -- You received this message

Re: modelformset and pagination?

well, I've looked into it more, and it seems that the max_num argument to the modelformset_factory constructor is the best way to go. If it works i'll post it here for those who might find this thread from google. On Nov 25, 8:46 pm, Some Guy wrote: > I'm having an issue

Re: modwsgi on suburl

On Nov 26, 5:04 pm, Some Guy wrote: > WSGIScriptAlias /test > > should be > >  WSGIScriptAlias / > > not really sure what you mean by suburl... No it shouldn't. What he was doing with the directive is correct. Provided they are using 1.0 or later, urls.py should be setup

Re: modwsgi on suburl

WSGIScriptAlias /test should be WSGIScriptAlias / not really sure what you mean by suburl... On Nov 25, 9:47 pm, Amit Sethi wrote: > Hi , can somebody tell me how i should configure mod_wsgi on a suburl I want > to set a django project on > > domain.com/test/ > >

modwsgi on suburl

Hi , can somebody tell me how i should configure mod_wsgi on a suburl I want to set a django project on domain.com/test/ so my urls.py at present looks like : urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^(.*)', 'sttp.views.serve'),) and the wgi scrip alias is WSGIScriptAlias /test

modelformset and pagination?

I'm having an issue trying to create pagination with a modelformset. so far I have... SubFormSet = modelformset_factory(Submission, can_delete=True, extra=0, form=PricingForm) ... objs = Submission.objects.all() formset = SubFormSet(queryset=objs) <-overriding the basic queryset

Re: reversing URLs

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Tim Valenta wrote: > > I had not realized that models.permalink depends on the `sites` > application. I had removed this for the sake of simplifying the admin > options as much as possible for those who would use it. But, having >

Forms ForeignKeyField does not populate with initial value

I have a (simplified) model class Incident(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=128) when_reported = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) reporter = models.ForeignKey(User) Where User is from auth. When used with a ModelForm, this creates a popup button with a

Re: german umlaute on search querys

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Hinnack wrote: > Hi Karen, > > thanks for your reply > > it means so far I must do a: > qs = search[query].encode('iso-8859-1') > > before I add the qs to a Q object of a queryset. Only in this case I get > results. > > the full

How to instantiate django.test.Client out of django unittest framework

Hi all, The software we're developing uses sphinx search engine whose index updating process doesn't play well with django's unittest setup, as a result we have to move all the tests from django to nosetest. I found one of your test talk on djangocon and you mentioned that we could 'instantiate

import twice when run test

i have this code in my tests.py: from models import * and in the models.py I have a signal handler and register it with post_save.connect( post_save_note, sender=Note ) and when i run test with ./manage.py test main I found the signal handler was registered twice and executed twice, and I

For DateField, render() gets date object in some cases, but unicode datestring in other

I have a TaskForm that contains a DateField. If I create my form from an instance of a Task, I find that when I render the DateField field, the value argument to render() is an actual datetime.date object. However, if I create my form from POST data, the value argument to render() is just a

Re: How to tell whether the current module is loaded under `manage.py test`

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Alex Dong wrote: > Hi all, > > During the `manage.py test` process, django will automatically change > the database from `hivemind` to `test_hivemind`,  For similar reason, > I'd like to change a file path from `sphinx.conf` to >

Re: More media collection nightmares

I tend to find that Django's true potential bubbles up when all of the components work together in an interdependent manner. Normally that sounds like a bad idea (too much interdependency could make it hard to grasp the bigger picture), but for some reason, Django comes together very nicely as

Re: More media collection nightmares

Actually, a widget required a js file that required core.js, but did not specify it. So I added core.js to the form's media list - but apparently it renders the widget media, then the form media - so no good. Your second suggestion was the best - I now just include the jsi18n and core.js on

Re: Accessing model instance on pre_save signal

Thanks Tim. That's funny you just posted that because I just got done doing that and was going to post it as solved. Cheers, J On Nov 25, 1:48 pm, Tim Valenta wrote: > I know how messed up this all seems, so I sympathize.  I totally want > to store items according

Re: Install django on apache

On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Nadae Ivar BADIO wrote: > i'm new in django and i trying to run django on my production server > who have debian and apache someone can please help me? It's Centos, not Debian, but this might help:

Install django on apache

Hi, i'm new in django and i trying to run django on my production server who have debian and apache someone can please help me? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Accessing model instance on pre_save signal

I know how messed up this all seems, so I sympathize. I totally want to store items according to a related object's name or id or whatever. However, I'm using upload_to in a more straightforward manner, and it seems to work out alright. Tell me if you've already tried it this way: class

Re: middleware to log request/response objects for testing purposes?

http://code.google.com/p/django-logging/ *shrug* I haven't used it, but he's got a screen-cast about how the thing is set up. He builds it off of built-in Python logging modules. It looks like it provides some decorators for suppressing logging output on methods, etc. Might be worth the time

middleware to log request/response objects for testing purposes?

Dear Django Community, I am curious if anyone has built some middleware to log all request/ response objects & possibly view & exception calls. I could do this myself easily, but, I would like to not reinvent the wheel. Thank you for your time. -Sean Neilan -- You received this message

integrating website and django site

I have a website running on www.mydomain.com. It is not a django site. It has a registration page which is not a django template/form. I have django app running on app.mydomain.com I want the registration page on www.domain.com to use django views and models on app.mydomain.com to save

Re: Is it possible to 'order' the left side of a filter_horizontal?

Well, you've got a couple of options. One is easiest and most straightforward, but could impact performance. The second is a little bit more work, but would limit the ordering to only taking effect on that one form. The first way is to use the Meta option `ordering = ('fieldname',)`, as

Re: Translate models

On 11/25/09, Alessandro Ronchi wrote: > I need to make my model translatable into different languages. > Is there any simple way to handle that in a transparent manner? > I've fround transmeta project on google, anyone is using that? > I'm using django-multilingual

Re: Chart tool

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:07 PM, S.Selvam wrote: > I need to show some data as a chart. > > I would like to achieve a high quality rendering. > > Is reportlab or matplotlib enough ? reportlab allows you to generate PDFs, which can be as high quality as you want; but if

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Hah.. wow. I'm glad you figured that out. I haven't used pth files in any serious manner before, so I totally wasn't thinking about that. Best of luck to you! On Nov 25, 1:08 pm, Stodge wrote: > What do you know - it's my .pth file. My Mercurial hook is in /home/ >

Re: More media collection nightmares

It looks to me like the Media class managing the files stores JS files in a Python list, so order should be remembered. I can see the issue though if a *widget* has critical "core" media, which isn't rendered until after other bits of media already went out the hatch. Is it a widget that has the

Chart tool

Hi all, This is my first post here andi am new to django. I need to show some data as a chart. I would like to achieve a high quality rendering. Is reportlab or matplotlib enough ? I hope you can direct me on track. -- Yours, S.Selvam Sent from Bangalore, KA, India -- You received this

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

What do you know - it's my .pth file. My Mercurial hook is in /home/ mike/hooks and I have a path file /usr/lib64/python2.5/site-packages/ hooks.pth defined, which contains: /home/mike/hooks If I comment this line out, I can do ./manage.py shell. If I uncomment this line, manage.py doesn't work

Is it possible to 'order' the left side of a filter_horizontal?

I have configured a modeladmin which uses the filter_horizontal feature. I would like to be able to order left side of this feature by name instead of the default (which I believe is by id). Is this possible? I see how to use "ordering" in the display for change lists, but not sure how to apply

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

I can successfully start python and import the settings file. My settings file only imports os. On Nov 25, 3:01 pm, Tim Valenta wrote: > Well, does it have errors?  If you navigate to the directory where > it's kept, can you enter the python shell and do "import

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Well, does it have errors? If you navigate to the directory where it's kept, can you enter the python shell and do "import settings"? Given all of the trouble you're having, can you verify that it imports successfully? The settings module itself should have no immediate dependencies, unless

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

It fails even if I delete the hg and .hg directories now. It worked a few times before, but no longer. Odd. > /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py(194)run_from_argv() -> handle_default_options(options) (Pdb) print options {'pythonpath': None, 'verbosity': '1',

More media collection nightmares

The latest is that the media collection strategy apparently has no concept of order dependence when specifying or loading javascript and in my form it seems to be sticking core.js somewhere in the middle which contains addEvent which is required by something being loaded sooner and thus it

Re: applying a patch

It's meant to be done through an SVN checkout, since that's the format that the Django development repository is kept. If you haven't got SVN, I'd start there. If you're on Windows, the "nicest" solution is "tortoisesvn", which integrates pretty simply into the Windows shell for easy right-click

Re: Sick of defining urls

I usually don't find myself writing too many redundant views, since the built-in admin site does so much of that automatically. Then I just build views specific to the site's public UI. I still find it curious that you would find yourself recreating said urls. I run a company database through

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Interesting. I take it that hg and hg/hooks both have __init__.py files? Otherwise I'm not sure how django sees them. Unless hg is also an app, listed in installed apps and has a models.py file. That is, I don't believe that the name 'hg' has any special meaning to django. You might try

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

And now it doesn't work again.. what is going on??? On Nov 25, 2:18 pm, Stodge wrote: > I think I have it. I'm developing a Mercurial hook in /var/www/sites/ > project/hg/hooks. If I delete this directory it works. If I recreate > the directory and the hook, it fails.

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

I think I have it. I'm developing a Mercurial hook in /var/www/sites/ project/hg/hooks. If I delete this directory it works. If I recreate the directory and the hook, it fails. Guess Django is getting confused by its existence. On Nov 25, 12:56 pm, Bill Freeman wrote: > Does

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Permissions are correct, __init__.py exists. Something is screwing the filesystem up. I blew away the old environment and re-created it and it worked. After a short while it broke again. I'm using Mercurial to manage source control for the environment; maybe that is interfering. On Nov 25, 12:56 

applying a patch

I am interested in applying patch 7028, but I don't know what to apply it to. Any help would be appreciated. Paul Hide -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To

Re: Accessing model instance on pre_save signal

I'm trying to access the current instance of ScreenShot related to the current instance of WebProject, in order to get the slug field of WebProject to use as a upload directory but I don't think I can because there's no primary key in the db yet. I need to call change_upload_to when the instance

Sick of defining urls

It is mostly a waste of time and busy work. I like the rails strategy of /controller/action/id I'd like to define a similar one time couple rules in urls.py Something like /application/view/id where view is the name of the function in the views.py in that application. Anybody got a little

Re: Configure multi-field multi-select form in Django Admin

Tim, Thanks for the response. That is what I was looking for. I got it working now, just needed a little hint. Found the User Admin stuff (in contrib) and was able to follow that. As far as the "id" columns.I adapted Django to an existing system so that is why the models don't necessarily

Content types and interaction with DeferredAttribute models

FYI: Trying to run unittests. Using the .only() method on a queryset causes the content types machinery to find and attempt to use a model with Deferred attributes. This function (with print and verbosity added): def update_contenttypes(app, created_models, verbosity=2, **kwargs): """

Re: Django with GXmlHttp

Tim, Thanks. That's exactly the kind of simple example that I was looking for of how to bridge the two worlds of Django templates and Ajax. BTW, me living in a major crucible of brass band music, I'm completely fascinated by your site and brass band culture in England -- of which to date I was

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Does /var/www/sites/project/__init__.py exist? Are the files and directories readable, and the directories searchable (excutable) by the user as which the webserver runs? On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Stodge wrote: > If I break the code out and write a simple python script

Re: calendar.js can't find variable gettext

Did that, filed it. Ticket #12264 -Todd Blanchard On Nov 25, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Tim Valenta wrote: > > > On Nov 24, 10:32 pm, Todd Blanchard wrote: >> Yep, I solved this by ripping and copying some code out of admin/sites.py >> and adding a url conf for it. >> >> It

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

Uh-oh: when did this break? ./manage.py shell Error: Could not import settings 'indigo.settings' (Is it on sys.path? Does it have syntax errors?): No module named settings On Nov 25, 12:21 pm, Stodge wrote: > If I break the code out and write a simple python script that

Re: Accessing model instance on pre_save signal

I'm a bit confused on a few points here. The upload_to field attribute should be atomic to the imagefield - it doesn't rely on related models. your change_upload_to creates a new screenshot - but doesn't connect it to the current WebProject instance. Is that what you are trying to do? s =

Re: Why are collapsed fieldsets expanded on submit in the admin?

You could attempt to conditionalize this on browser version. On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Wohlwend > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> currently, when a form in the admin has collapsed

Re: cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

If I break the code out and write a simple python script that only contains: import sys, os sys.path.append("/var/www/sites") from project import settings from django.core.management import setup_environ setup_environ(settings) Even this doesn't work yet as far as I can tell, it should. Any

Re: Form foreign key add new

> I don't know what to replace XXX with, I know it's a db_field > but I don't > know how/where to get it from. AutoFields are the auto-incrementing primary key of your model. By default, your models get an automatic "id" attribute, which is what this is. Django frequently deals with the raw

Re: string-based fields and null

In most cases, any string field should be allowed to be blank, and can easily survive WITHOUT "null=True". As stated before me, this is preferable. For instance, you asked about FileField, among others. This is perfectly fine to only use "blank=True". You'll primarily only be using "null=True"

Re: Form foreign key add new

I've realised I can't inherit from RelatedFieldWidgetWrapper because I want to override __init__ so I've copies the entire class an made a few changes. Still need to know what to pass in for rel. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group.

Re: View assistance

Thanks again. On Nov 25, 4:00 pm, Javier Guerra wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jamie Pittock > wrote: > > Rolando, thanks.  Both your and Javier's solutions work.  Do they both > > do the same think in different ways?  Is one way better

Re: How to resolve the view name from a url

Note that url pattern's aren't required to have names, so you can't capture statistics on unnamed urls patterns in apps that you want to use unmodified. If, on the other hand, you just want to collect statistics on url patters which are "under your control", and thus can be required to have

Form foreign key add new

I want the same add new functionality as model foreign key select boxes in admin, there the select widget is passed through django.contrib.admin.widgets.RelatedFieldWidgetWrapper to add the additional html (image, links etc). The __init__.py takes the admin_site instance, I want this

cannot import name settings - accessing Django environment from external script

I'm completely confused. I have a Django environment installed in /var/ www/sites/project, which is accessed using mod_python/Apache. I want to access the Django environment from a script - actually a Mercurial hook. So I added this to my hook: sys.path.append("/var/www/sites")

Re: reversing URLs

I thank you, Karen, for the pointer on that user-issue I had :) For the sake of putting this information on the same thread, I wanted to make note of the following: I had not realized that models.permalink depends on the `sites` application. I had removed this for the sake of simplifying the

Re: settings.py seems to be cached or stuck

> Thanks Karen. Is annoying sometimes when you see people don't bother > reading past the single mod_wsgi page on Django site even though I put > disclaimers at front to try and encourage people to do so without > making it too blatant that what I wanted to say was 'STOP BEING LAZY > AND GO READ

Re: calendar.js can't find variable gettext

On Nov 24, 10:32 pm, Todd Blanchard wrote: > Yep, I solved this by ripping and copying some code out of admin/sites.py > and adding a url conf for it. > > It works now, but this should be included by default through the widget media > dependency system.  Not very slick.  I

Re: View assistance

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Jamie Pittock wrote: > Rolando, thanks.  Both your and Javier's solutions work.  Do they both > do the same think in different ways?  Is one way better than the other > in any way? i guess the generated SQL is the same. and as for

Re: string-based fields and null

The major problem that I see with NULL in strings is that there may be databases out there that don't distinguish between NULL and "", that is that store them the same way. "" is just as good in most cases. It behaves like False in python and template tag tests. And it has the advantage that if

Re: View assistance

Rolando, thanks. Both your and Javier's solutions work. Do they both do the same think in different ways? Is one way better than the other in any way? On Nov 25, 3:40 pm, Jamie Pittock wrote: > Well that was ridiculously easy!  Thanks very much for responding >

Re: View assistance

Well that was ridiculously easy! Thanks very much for responding Javier. On Nov 25, 3:25 pm, Javier Guerra wrote: > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Jamie Pittock > wrote: > > This is working as expected.  However, the view is checking that the >

Re: View assistance

Try queryset=Task.objects.filter(project=project) Regards, On 11/25/09, Jamie Pittock wrote: > I have two models, Project and Task. They are related via a foreign > key in the task model. > > The view that displays a task is below... > > def task_detail(request,

Re: View assistance

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Jamie Pittock wrote: > This is working as expected.  However, the view is checking that the > project_slug is found, and also that the task_id is found, but it's > not checking that the found task is related to the found project. def

Re: Why are collapsed fieldsets expanded on submit in the admin?

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Benjamin Wohlwend wrote: > Hi, > > currently, when a form in the admin has collapsed fieldsets, those > fieldsets are expanded on submit. As I find this rather distracting > and couldn't find an explanation why this should be desired behavior,

View assistance

I have two models, Project and Task. They are related via a foreign key in the task model. The view that displays a task is below... def task_detail(request, project_slug, task_id): project = get_object_or_404(Project, slug=project_slug) return object_detail(

Re: Why are collapsed fieldsets expanded on submit in the admin?

Sorry for the bump, but does no one have an explanation for this weird behavior? The question comes up regularly when I show the admin interface to a client. On 23 Nov., 16:57, Benjamin Wohlwend wrote: > Hi, > > currently, when a form in the admin has collapsed fieldsets,

Re: Error message customization

Hi, use a normal form and do it like this: shipping_character = forms.CharField(error_messages={'required': 'Your game character name'}, label='Charakter Name') dr.NO schrieb: > Hi, > > How can i display field name using verbose_name not just field name in > validation of ModelForm ? > > For

Re: how to import a library in only in django project

Hi Amit, It depends how you're running. If you're using ./manage.py testserver, then change manage.py to add in your new path. If you're using mod-wsgi, then change the site-wsgi.py file: import os, sys sys.path.append('/home/path/to/add') os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] =

Re: Django with GXmlHttp

Not quite sure what you're looking for, but I've used google maps with django, without using GeoDjango. http://www.brassbandresults.co.uk/map/ The script used in this page is here: http://www.brassbandresults.co.uk/map/map_script.js which is generated using this template: function

Re: Per-object permissions

2009/11/25 Gamliel Roi : > Any idea when 1.2 will be released? > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM, rebus_ wrote: >> >> 2009/11/25 Russell Keith-Magee : >> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, rebus_ wrote:

Re: Per-object permissions

Any idea when 1.2 will be released? On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 3:31 PM, rebus_ wrote: > 2009/11/25 Russell Keith-Magee : > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, rebus_ wrote: > >> 2009/11/24 nek4life : > >>> You

Error message customization

Hi, How can i display field name using verbose_name not just field name in validation of ModelForm ? For egz. shipping_character = models.CharField('Your game character name ',max_length=50) <-- field from model if it's empty validatior error is shipping_character - field is required

Re: Per-object permissions

2009/11/25 Russell Keith-Magee : > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM, rebus_ wrote: >> 2009/11/24 nek4life : >>> You should look into django-authority.  I'm pretty sure that has per- >>> object-permissions. >>> >>>

Re: Translate models

2009/11/25 Alessandro Ronchi > I need to make my model translatable into different languages. > Is there any simple way to handle that in a transparent manner? > I've fround transmeta project on google, anyone is using that? > Hi, yes, I'm using transmeta, I had

Re: Translate models

ciao alessandro, i am using transmeta for a project im developing and it seems to fit my needs. transmeta is easy to use and it creates a db column for every field you defined as translatable. the default and required language is the one you define as site language in settings.py, and its also

Translate models

I need to make my model translatable into different languages. Is there any simple way to handle that in a transparent manner? I've fround transmeta project on google, anyone is using that? -- Alessandro Ronchi SOASI Sviluppo Software e Sistemi Open Source http://www.soasi.com

How to tell whether the current module is loaded under `manage.py test`

Hi all, During the `manage.py test` process, django will automatically change the database from `hivemind` to `test_hivemind`, For similar reason, I'd like to change a file path from `sphinx.conf` to `sphinx_test.conf` but unfortunately I couldn't find a proper way to do it. Ideally, if there

many-to-many relation field__in - how to AND instead of OR?

I have a query like: Product.objects.filter(categories__in=cat_ids).distinct() where categories is a m2m field. As I understand it this loads products which have belong to ANY of the categories in cat_ids How would I load only products which belong to ALL of the categories in cat_ids? (is this

Extend Admin Search Form

Hi Everybody, I would like to add a complex search form in the change_list.html admin template (for example to add possibility to search something from date to date) Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance. Marco Minutoli -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Class-based views, metaclasses and view validation

Hi all, I'd like to describe a little of the way we're using Django for our site, http://m.ox.ac.uk/. I'd very much like to find out whether other peoplethink that our approach is sensible, and if it is, I thought this post might be useful for other people in tackling some of the issues we've

Re: settings.py seems to be cached or stuck

On Nov 25, 6:43 pm, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 21:52 -0800, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > Your imagination is running amuck, no such thing happens. You can > > quite happily run multiple Django instances in embedded mode, they > > just need

how to import a library in only in django project

Hi , I want to use a library in a django project but I don't want to put it in python path. Where am I supposed to put the sys.append so that it will available to the whole django project. -- A-M-I-T S|S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django