File/Folder permissions for deploying Django app

Hello, I know that Django code and templates are should not sit in the root and the same path with Apache. Is there a recommendated location for deploying the Django app? Also, what is the best practice in terms of the user account and group the Django folder should use? Let's say on the virtual

ModelForm always calls Model's clean method

Hi, I just tried the new Model Validation feature in Django 1.2 and I found out that ModelForm always calls the Model's clean method even when the form validation has errors. This causes problems when the model has a foreign key, and the value is validated in the clean method. Consider this

css files are not loading properly for admin screens

Hi, CSS files are not loading when i try to access the admin screens. Here are the settings.py config file details MEDIA_ROOT = '' MEDIA_URL = 'http://127.0.0.1:8000' ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' Could some one please provide me help on this. Thanks a lot. -- You received this message

How create M2M through with out PK?

Models: from django.db import models class People(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=30) class Meta: db_table = 'libs_peoples' class Content(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=30) peoples =

How to insert a tuple into ManyToMany Relations

class People(forms.Form): HoldComments=models.ManyToManyField('Comment') class Comment(forms.Form): CommentWord=models.CharField(max_length=1） I've had these two tables, I'd want the people make a comment so I new p=comment(CommentWord=Comment)in the view but how can I

How to retrieve data from Wikimapia using its API?

Hi, I am a beginner with Django. Can someone tell me how to access the database of Wikimapia using its API through Django. -- Regards, Rav! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Custom Form in a ModelFormset_Factory?

I'm pretty sure that modelformset_factory is not documented. 2010/5/19 Michael Davis : > Thanks! I found that by looking at the source shortly after I posted > the question. I'm surprised I didn't stumble across that option in the > documentation. Do you have a link to

"select for update" with models

Hi, I'm new to Django -- looking to write a credit card transaction module and I need the ability to perform a "SELECT FOR UPDATE" (mysql) so that an order does not get processed by two different threads. I see an open ticket for this here: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/2705 Has anyone

Re: ajax setup

On May 18, 9:57 am, Matt W wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I just started to use Django and I was wondering how I could setup > javascipt (AJAX to be more specfic) in my djagno project in order to > run a script. Here is the script code. > [snip] > > In specific I was

Sync user objects with sympa mailinglist

Hi, I want to sync emailadresses in the django.contrib.auth User model, to a sympa mailinglist subscriberlist. I really don't have any experience with sympa. So I don't know how this process usually goes, but what I did found out, is that sympa documentation is lacking a bit. I find the concepts

Re: insert html in html

On May 18, 2:00 pm, CrabbyPete wrote: > I want to insert a html calendar into an existing web page. What is > the best way to insert html into a template that I have for the web > page? In what form do you have this calendar HTML? Do you compute it in a view? Is it already

Re: send_mail not firing

Actually, I've fixed the problem with send_activation. If i go via the form it still doesn't trigger the email. On May 18, 5:19 pm, Nick wrote: > I get the same results. > > I dropped into the shell and tried it out > > >>> user = User(username="nick", email="t...@test.com")

Re: send_mail not firing

OK, it's all fixed. I updated the template rendering to actually use Context, if you look at activate.py I just put "context = ({". That's not helping anything out. I also added a default_host_email to the settings file. I don't know if that was the problem, but I'm leaving it in. On May 18, 5:19 

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

LinkedIn Nitzan Brumer requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- David, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Nitzan Accept invitation from Nitzan Brumer

Re: reverse() with multiple possibilities: Is there a way to retrieve all?

Make one of the urls pass an argument using parentheses in the pattern. Then make that an option argument in the view function. Reverse will return one if you supply the argument, and the other if you don't. But why not use named patterns and reverse by pattern name? In either case you have to

Re: send_mail not firing

I get the same results. I dropped into the shell and tried it out >>> user = User(username="nick", email="t...@test.com") >>> send_activation(user) 1 I think the 1 means that it passed but I don't get any emails sent On May 18, 5:08 pm, "ge...@aquarianhouse.com"

Re: send_mail not firing

I get the same result. I dropped into the shell and ran this >>> user = User(username="test", email="t...@test.com") >>>send_activation(user) 1 I don't really know what that 1 means, though. On May 18, 5:08 pm, "ge...@aquarianhouse.com" wrote: > what happens if you

Re: send_mail not firing

what happens if you set fail_silently to True? On May 19, 12:05 am, Nick wrote: > I am having an issue with an authentication app I am writing. The app > saves the form appropriately but doesn't send the confirmation email. > I am using the same email_host settings as with

send_mail not firing

I am having an issue with an authentication app I am writing. The app saves the form appropriately but doesn't send the confirmation email. I am using the same email_host settings as with other application that send email messages but with no results. Here is the process. First a form processes

Localized fields in modelforms/modeladmin

Hi everybody, Is there a way i can localize some of the form fields from the ModelForm class or ModelAdmin class? -- -- Dejan Noveski Web Developer dr.m...@gmail.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/dekomote | LinkedIn: http://mk.linkedin.com/in/dejannoveski -- You received this message because

Re: Extend User

I need some more info :) I've get this: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/200/descargan.png it's pretty but need to change somethings... 1. *I need that user be a EmailField unique. User is defined in auth.User so I don't know how change it.* 2. In "User Profiles" I like to change the

reverse() with multiple possibilities: Is there a way to retrieve all?

If I have two URLs which resolve to the same view. Is there any way to get both? I rely on reverse() for some "active page" logic and the trouble is that it will only return a single URL, the first match it has encountered. Thomas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Can you give me explanation for my

Hi all, Can you give me a bright explanation for Django Framework ? how can Django being configure in cloud computing? it's support? can you give me some link article for this ? Thanks Before that.. Sincerely Hendra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: admin media and template override ignored after switch to 1.2rc

Hi, I've encountered the same problem. When I look in the page source the link point to the correct localization, but the CSS and images aren't loaded, the layout is default. Could anyone help us? :) Thanks! On May 17, 8:37 am, naos wrote: > Well now I think that it

Re: Error in form validation with choices

Thanks, you're correct. I don't know how I didn't notice but then again it worked just fine with 1.1.1. -Jori On May 18, 11:03 pm, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > It's an integer field, but the choices are all strings. The first > value in each tuple should be an integer, to

Re: Error in form validation with choices

On May 18, 8:49 pm, Jori wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded one of my projects to 1.2 today. I noticed that one of my > model forms won't validate anymore: > > class Review(Entry): >     RATING_VALUE_CHOICES = ( >         ('1', _('1. Overpriced')), >         ('2', _('2. Prices above

Re: Error in form validation with choices

Uups, copypasted the wrong choices list. The format is the same so don't mind the variable name. On May 18, 10:49 pm, Jori wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded one of my projects to 1.2 today. I noticed that one of my > model forms won't validate anymore: > > class Review(Entry): >    

Error in form validation with choices

Hi, I upgraded one of my projects to 1.2 today. I noticed that one of my model forms won't validate anymore: class Review(Entry): RATING_VALUE_CHOICES = ( ('1', _('1. Overpriced')), ('2', _('2. Prices above average')), ('3', _('3. Average price range')), ('4',

Proxy models and object instantiation

Hi, I'd like to use proxy models to define different properties for different kinds of pages in my Django CMS. Which proxy model/class an object belongs to is based on a certain field's value. Before querying the database, my view cannot know which proxy model to use for instantiation. What is

insert html in html

I want to insert a html calendar into an existing web page. What is the best way to insert html into a template that I have for the web page? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Multi-table inheritance - knowing the child object from the parent

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/topics/db/models/#id7 You can access sub-classes with place.restaurant and place.gardenstore if the model has them. I did something similar the other day but added an extra field to parent class to indicate which type of a child model it had (1 for Restaurant

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > Because the incantation is ". activate", not "./activate".  "." is a > shell command > a.k.a. source, which reads the file and executes it in the current shell.  It > is > not a command to run as a sub-process. > As Bill

Re: Cannot concatenate context list. Bizarre.

And the following ugly loop adds scripts as I hoped simple concatenation would: def render(self, context): for i in range(0, len(self.scripts)): context['scripts'].insert(i, self.scripts[i]) return '' Thomas On May 18, 2:31 pm, Thomas Allen wrote: > I would like

Cannot concatenate context list. Bizarre.

I would like to be able to allow any template file to add its own JavaScript. Seemed like an easy implementation: class AddScriptNode(Node): def __init__(self, scripts=[]): self.scripts = scripts def render(self, context): context['scripts'] = self.scripts + context['scripts']

Re: No stylesheet in administration panel

On May 18, 10:47 am, Carlo Trimarchi wrote: > Hi, > I'm following the django tutorial to build the poll application. I'm > working mostly on a remote server (using wsgi), but I'm also trying > stuff on my local machine, just running the manage.py runserver > command. > I've

Re: No stylesheet in administration panel

On 18 May 2010 17:25, ryan west wrote: > Just a django noob, but are you sure that the path for media is set > correctly in your settings.py file? > > For instance, my media settings look like: > > MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/ryanisnan/ryanwest.info/public/media' > MEDIA_URL =

Re: No stylesheet in administration panel

Depending on your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX in settings.py (default is /media/) your webserver should be configured to point to the django admin media location... I have this line in my apache config Alias /media/ /usr/share/pyshared/django/contrib/admin/media/ -Mitch On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:47

Missing Response

Just wondering what happened to my response to: Record won't Insert, possibly due to not using built in 'ID'? It says Last Post by Steve, but the message is missing. Steve -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this

Re: Reflect changes made through Manager to model instances

On May 18, 9:21 am, Alexei Selivanov wrote: > Is it possible to reflect changes made through model's Manager to > model instances? For example I have ProfileManager class like so: > > class ProfileManager(models.Manager): > >     def activate_profile(self, id,

Re: Record won't Insert, possibly due to not using built in 'ID'?

Hi, Are you wrapping the insert statement in a Try? First, make sure you're doing that. Also, add a parameter after "except Exception" like so: try: instance = TableClassName.(field="a value", user_id=request.user.id) instance.save() except Exception, msg <--- add this print msg

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

Because the incantation is ". activate", not "./activate". "." is a shell command a.k.a. source, which reads the file and executes it in the current shell. It is not a command to run as a sub-process. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:15 PM, ryan west wrote: > Hey Tom, > > Any

Re: No stylesheet in administration panel

Just a django noob, but are you sure that the path for media is set correctly in your settings.py file? For instance, my media settings look like: MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/ryanisnan/ryanwest.info/public/media' MEDIA_URL = '/media/' ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' It could be that your MEDIA_ROOT are

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

Hey Tom, Any idea why ./activate would be failing "Permission Denied"? Ryan -- 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 unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Multi-table inheritance - knowing the child object from the parent

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:27 AM, Jani Tiainen wrote: > > Given the following: > > > > class Place(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > address = models.CharField(max_length=80) > > zip_code = models.CharField(max_length=15) > > > > > >

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Bill Freeman wrote: > I'll be that you can have a private site-packages directory, or whatever > you want to call it, which you can add to sys.path.  You can manipulate > sys.path in your manage.py, but if you don't need to override basic >

Re: Custom Form in a ModelFormset_Factory?

Thanks! I found that by looking at the source shortly after I posted the question. I'm surprised I didn't stumble across that option in the documentation. Do you have a link to any documentation that indicates this (and other features) is an option? On May 18, 1:10 am, Ian Lewis

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

Thanks Tom, I'll have a look at that. Ryan > > Google for virtualenv. > > Cheers > > Tom > > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

I'll be that you can have a private site-packages directory, or whatever you want to call it, which you can add to sys.path. You can manipulate sys.path in your manage.py, but if you don't need to override basic django stuff that is imported before settings.py is read, you could do the

No stylesheet in administration panel

Hi, I'm following the django tutorial to build the poll application. I'm working mostly on a remote server (using wsgi), but I'm also trying stuff on my local machine, just running the manage.py runserver command. I've just enabled the admin site and it works. But when I access the page on the

Re: Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:41 PM, ryan west wrote: > Disclaimer: This may be more of a python/shared hosting issue, but > alas I'm posting here. > > Hey all, > > I'm currently just trying to install some 3rd party django apps so I > can use them in my project.  I already have

Installing 3rd party django applications on a shared environment

Disclaimer: This may be more of a python/shared hosting issue, but alas I'm posting here. Hey all, I'm currently just trying to install some 3rd party django apps so I can use them in my project. I already have django up and running, I'm hosting on Dreamhost using passenger. I don't have my

Record won't Insert, possibly due to not using built in 'ID'?

( Not sure what happened to the post, the subject appeared, but post content is missing) - Hi I am currently using 1.1: For the first time, I'm using a table without the built in autoincrement field. As we know, the way to

Record won't Insert, possibly due to not using built in 'ID'?

Hi I am currently using 1.1: For the first time, I'm using a table without the built in autoincrement field. As we know, the way to tell Django -not- to use the "id" is to manually specify one of the fields as primary_key=True. Here is my table: class Rssitem(models.Model): url_key =

Re: Extend User

Perfect, thanks for your help! On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 14:03, zinckiwi wrote: > On May 18, 7:57 am, Alexandre González wrote: > > But don't you think that have attributes that I don't need is a > perfomance > > lost? I only ask, I'm learning django :) > > >

Re: Challenge with Annotate

Roland, Shooting a bit in the dark but how about: ... select = { 'days_in_stock': "'%s' - transactie_datum_inkomend + 1" % (given_date.isoformat()), 'avg_days_instock': 'AVG(days_in_stock)', }) ... qs.annotate(Count('manufacturer')) ... Would that get you the group by and average field

Custom Validation on Models

Hi, I am new to django, and got some problems on models validation. I have the following two models: class A(models.Model): ... class B(models.Model): key_field = models.ForeignKey(A) ... bool_field = models.BooleanField(default=False) I want to add a validation rule in model B

Inlines user permissions problem + view only permissions

Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug or I'm just missing something (although I have already parsed the documentation about inlines), but: Let's say I have a model A. Model A is an inline of model B. User U has full access to model B, but only change permissions to model A (so, no add, nor

Re: Challenge with Annotate

On 05/18/2010 03:43 PM, Ian Lewis wrote: > Roland, > > Instead of using annotate, could you just add the avg_days_instock > field as another key in the select argument to extra? > Well how would I do that? Since I want the avg_days_instock calculated on a 'group_by' basis. To me it seems that

Re: Challenge with Annotate

Roland, Instead of using annotate, could you just add the avg_days_instock field as another key in the select argument to extra? Ian On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Roland van Laar wrote: > Hello, > > Question: How do I calculate the Average of a calculated field. > > My

Re: Displaying dictionaries

On May 18, 11:35 am, Tom Evans wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Barry wrote: > > Hi-- > > >  I want to dynamically display the contents of results (an array of > > dictionaries with the same keys) as a table where the column headers >

Re: pass related_name-s into Model.objects.create()?

> > But what about 'ForeignKey's? May we pass their 'remote_name's in with > > the kwargs? > > Foreign Keys - yes. Reverse Foreign Keys - no. Point: All kwargs takes is the fields on this object. > In the case of a foreign key, just pass in the object instance that > you want your object to be

Reflect changes made through Manager to model instances

Is it possible to reflect changes made through model's Manager to model instances? For example I have ProfileManager class like so: class ProfileManager(models.Manager): def activate_profile(self, id, activation_key): # do activation And I want changes made by this method be

Challenge with Annotate

Hello, Question: How do I calculate the Average of a calculated field. My (simplified) models.py: Manufacturer(models.Model): name = models.CharField(length=100) Product(models.Model): name = models.CharField(length=100) Items(models.Model): manufacturer =

Re: Extend User

On May 18, 7:57 am, Alexandre González wrote: > But don't you think that have attributes that I don't need is a perfomance > lost? I only ask, I'm learning django :) > > I go to see the documentation that you send me, thanks for your help. There will be a minuscule amount of

Re: Extend User

But don't you think that have attributes that I don't need is a perfomance lost? I only ask, I'm learning django :) I go to see the documentation that you send me, thanks for your help. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 13:38, Ian Lewis wrote: > If you don't need the name, surname

Re: ANN: Django 1.1.2 and Django 1.2 released

On May 18, 12:39 am, rahul jain wrote: > Awesome job...but I discovered just one problem. Select all missing from > admin panel. So now i cannot select all the objects if i want to from admin > panel. It was fine on django 1.1. Its not fine on django 1.2 nor in the >

Re: pass related_name-s into Model.objects.create()?

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Phlip wrote: > Djangoists: > > The documentation for Model.objects.create(**kwargs) does not define > kwargs. It just sez "kwargs". > > I think all of our experiences would bear out "kwargs" may at least be > the model's fields. Correct. >

Re: Extend User

If you don't need the name, surname etc. then don't use them. They are optional fields. You can also implement a custom form or view when the user registers that can make sure the email has not been previously registered. If you need to add additional fields then you should create a custom

Re: Module loading error in django trunk.

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:12 PM, ben wrote: > Hi All, > > After a recent svn update to my copy of Django/trunk I’ve been getting > a persistent error relating to module loading (see below). I am able > to create the same error from many but not all views/requests. > >

Re: Multi-table inheritance - knowing the child object from the parent

> Given the following: > > class Place(models.Model): > name = models.CharField(max_length=50) > address = models.CharField(max_length=80) > zip_code = models.CharField(max_length=15) > > > class Restaurant(Place): > serves_hot_dogs = models.BooleanField() > serves_pizza =

Extend User

Hi everybody! I need a User model with normal attributes inherit from models.User, but I need some differences: - I dont' need name, surname and another attributes - I need that email are unique between different Users Can I inherit and use most of models.User? Or I need to create a new

Re: Error was: cannot import name validators

validators is a module that was added in Django 1.2. You probably have the wrong version of Django installed or are using Django 1.1 with a django application that requires Django 1.2. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Pankaj Singh wrote: >

Module loading error in django trunk.

Hi All, After a recent svn update to my copy of Django/trunk I’ve been getting a persistent error relating to module loading (see below). I am able to create the same error from many but not all views/requests. Interesting, when I run my code against a slightly older version of Django trunk (at

Re: Displaying dictionaries

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Barry wrote: > Hi-- > >  I want to dynamically display the contents of results (an array of > dictionaries with the same keys) as a table where the column headers > are a select group of keys in the variable result_col_titles and the >

Re: Custom Model Fields

Hi, I think what you're trying to accomplish is more or less what django-tagging [http://code.google.com/p/django-tagging/] does, so I suggest looking at its source code. HTH, Nuno On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Nick Taylor wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to create

Re: Error was: cannot import name validators

pan...@pankaj-laptop:~/django_projects/pankaj$ python Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) [GCC 4.4.3] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from django.core import validators Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in

Re: Restarting the server while working on dreamhost.

Thanks for trying, that didn't help. What I actually needed to do was to pkill python I am writing it here in case someone later have a similar problem and searches for this. Pietro -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to

Custom Django Admin translations

Hi, I would like to ask, what is the best way to change some of the translation messages in Django Admin to custom ones. Is there any good way, how to override system translations of Admin in some projects where I need it ? Thanks Ivan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Custom Form in a ModelFormset_Factory?

Pass the form class to modelformset_factory() in the form argument. The factory will then use the AuthorForm class as the base form class when it creates the modelform class for the formset. modelFormset = modelformset_factory(Author, form=AuthorForm) On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Michael