Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread Matt Hoskins
Yo-Yo Ma, You must be reading a different thread to me... Or rather I don't see it in quite as negative terms as you do and I'm a bit baffled as to how you've interpreted it quite so strongly! Richard's OP was indeed not saying that we should go out and advertise that it's a great CMS but he did

Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread Matt Hoskins
Richard, Glad I managed to get across where I'm coming from - I was struggling a bit with coming up with how to express it :). Great to hear you're going to contact Tom and Venkatraman about helping. I hope you didn't take anything I said as wanting to pour cold water on where you're coming from -

Re: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute '_meta' - during South migration

2010-06-18 Thread Dave E
Andrew Godwin from the South user group replied: "It looks like this is a bug in the permissions-creating code, however, and not in South itself (although it might be triggered by the way South fiddles with the ORM)." Ideas, anyone? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: > Use South data migrations. > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. -- Regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Associate NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dja

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: >> Use South data migrations. >> > > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. Data fixups are one sort of migration - its not a schema migration, but a data migrat

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Matt Hoskins
I'm assuming there's no fields on the duplicate player instances that need merging - from your mention of "shift all records of the duplicate" I'm reading that as "shift all records that relate to the player" - otherwise it will need human intervention. Having stated that assumption, while it's pos

Re: how to eliminate duplicates

2010-06-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 18 June 2010 14:07:53 Tom Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On Friday 18 June 2010 07:27:10 Shawn Milochik wrote: > >> Use South data migrations. > > > > I do not understand what data migration has to do with this. > > Data fixups are one sort

Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Rosner
On Jun 16, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Venkatraman S wrote: > At the same time, look at Pinax - its almost dead since 0.7 and #pinax is > mostly silent; whereas this is a kickass mashup which needs more innovation. Let me make this clear: Pinax is *not* almost dead. Like every project there are drops i

using dumpdata on an application with non managed models

2010-06-18 Thread Florian Le Goff
Hi, I'm trying to run dumpdata on an application which use severals non- managed models. For example: class testModel(models.Model): class Meta: managed = False Unfortunately, when I run ./manage.py dumpdata myapp ; the following happens : Traceback (most recent call last): File "

Re: Special characters and symbols in django?

2010-06-18 Thread c.poll...@bangor.ac.uk
Django version 1.1.2 and yes the columns in questions are nclob and nvarchar The form i was using was to add the data was generated using model formset factory Are there characters django just can't cope with? Do i need to clean them out before saving the data? Cheers for any help On Jun 18, 7

Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread finn
Thanks for all the comments so far. I seem to have started a debate, and that was exactly the purpose! First, let me try to clarify something: I would never try to sell Django as a CMS because it obviously isn't a CMS. But that doesn't mean that comparisons with CMS's does not serve a purpose. The

Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread Richard Shebora
Finn, My idea for a "Pet" project is not to promote a particular project. We simply need a project with a relatively large number of "re-usable" apps that can be brought into compliance with the "Best Practices" guidelines. While I do see this as a separate effort and needing a separate site, I d

Re: Selling Django

2010-06-18 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Richard Shebora wrote: > Finn, > > My idea for a "Pet" project is not to promote a particular project. > We simply need a project with a relatively large number of "re-usable" > apps that can be brought into compliance with the "Best Practices" > guidelines.  While

Setting initial on multi select widget

2010-06-18 Thread Jeff Green
I have been trying unsuccessfully to select the initial value of a multi select drop down. I was wondering what I am missing as to why this does not seem to be working. Here is a snippet of my code self.fields[config.ConfigurationName] = forms.MultipleChoiceField(

Re: Setting initial on multi select widget

2010-06-18 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On 18 juin, 15:03, Jeff Green wrote: > I have been trying unsuccessfully to select the initial value of a > multi select drop down. > > I was wondering what I am missing as to why this does not seem to be > working. > > Here is a snippet of my code > > self.fields[config.ConfigurationName] = for

Re: hyperlinks within admin interface

2010-06-18 Thread swinton
Hi Ben, I'm trying to do the same thing, I thought perhaps list_display_links would automagically link to related objects, but unfortunately not. did you manage to find a solution? Regards, Steve On May 21, 3:12 pm, Ben wrote: > Is it possible to mess with the __unicode__ method of amodelto > e

Re: Setting initial on multi select widget

2010-06-18 Thread Jeff Green
Can you clarify what you mean by sequence. It would be appreciated if you can provide me of an example which might help me to understand how to implement it. Thanks, Jeff On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:44 AM, bruno desthuilliers < bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 18 juin, 15:03, Jeff Gr

Re: Setting initial on multi select widget

2010-06-18 Thread Tom Evans
Another example, on top of the example he put in his original post? A sequence is a generic python term for a collection of objects that can be iterated through. So a list (or array, if you don't grok the lingo) is a sequence, so is a tuple, so is a string - its a sequence of characters. All thes

Accessing updated M2M fields in overriden save() in admin

2010-06-18 Thread Jonathan
I'd like to use the values of a ManyToManyField in a model's overriden save() method when I save an instance in admin. It turns out that by design, django does not update the M2M field before calling save(), but only after the save() is complete as part of the *form* save... How can I access the n

Re: Accessing updated M2M fields in overriden save() in admin

2010-06-18 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! Jonathan writes: > I'd like to use the values of a ManyToManyField in a model's > overriden save() method when I save an instance in admin. It > turns out that by design, django does not update the M2M field > before calling save(), but only after the save() is complete as > part of t

error when using form preview

2010-06-18 Thread Jacob Fenwick
I'm trying to use a FormPreview as described in the Django documentation and am getting this error: Template error: In template /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/formtools/templates/formtools/form.html, error at line 1 Caught

Re: error when using form preview

2010-06-18 Thread Jacob Fenwick
Nevermind. I guess that should have been obvious. Jacob On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jacob Fenwick wrote: > I'm trying to use a FormPreview as described in the Django documentation > and am getting this error: > > Template error: > In template > /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framewor

Re: enumerating view functions

2010-06-18 Thread Dmitry Beransky
any thoughts/ideas at all? On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Dmitry Beransky wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to enumerate view functions that are currently > associated with a url patern?  In the end, I'd like to get a list of > triples: pattern name, pattern, callback function. > > > Thanks > Dm

subprocess.Popen breaks dev server

2010-06-18 Thread Tim Sawyer
Hi Folks, I have code that does this: lCommand = ["hg","history", "-r", "%s:%s" % (pFrom, pTo)] lProcess = subprocess.Popen(lCommand, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) in a view. When using the dev server, I'm quite often getting a blank page instead of my HTML, and for each pa

static files, nginx, memcached

2010-06-18 Thread TheIvIaxx
This probably isnt the *best* place to post this, but I figured a lot of folks here have had experience with this. I am switching off lighty to nginx for static file serving as it handles memcached (as far as i know, lighty does not). Anyhow, I have it up and running ok, but im not sure what the

Uploading files with FormPreview

2010-06-18 Thread Jacob Fenwick
Does FormPreview support uploading files? I imagine I would need to override the templates to change the form enctype and override the validation view so that it will check for request.FILES, but is there a way to do this easily? Or will it just be an ugly, hacky mess that's not worth embarking on

Re: static files, nginx, memcached

2010-06-18 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, TheIvIaxx wrote: > My thoughts right now are for it to check memcached for the key, if > not found, then serve up the file from disk.  Everything else goes to > apache.  I will just have a cron job populate memcached separately. > > Is this a common practice or is

Re: Chase Paymentech

2010-06-18 Thread surtyaar
Hi Bobby, You might be interested in a django clone of the sample shopping cart chase paymentech provided (http://store.e-xact.com/). You can get the code and setup instructions here : http://github.com/gitaaron/E-xact-django-clone Rgds/ Aaron On Apr 20, 10:34 am, Bobby Roberts wrote: > Hey Bi

RE: subprocess.Popen breaks dev server

2010-06-18 Thread Henrik Genssen
you may try subprocess.check_call instead of Popen regards henrik >reply to message: >date: 18.06.2010 19:05:21 >from: "Tim Sawyer" >to: django-users@googlegroups.com >subject: subprocess.Popen breaks dev server > >Hi Folks, > >I have code that does this: > >lCommand = ["hg","history", "-r", "%s

How do I update a global variable?

2010-06-18 Thread aurphir
In my django application I have a global variable 'gv' which is accessed by different requests coming from the end users. Now 'gv' holds a data of 2 MB size which needs to be update at regular interval, pulling 2 MB data from the database for every request doesn't make sense. For this I have plan

google search

2010-06-18 Thread Henrik Genssen
Hi, does someone know a simple way or app for a better search like google does it? Not in the meaning of: did you mean, but ignore chars like ",.-#+? and convert special chars like ä to ae, ü to ue and so on... regards Henrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

Re: admin filters getting reset after admin action

2010-06-18 Thread swinton
On Jun 17, 4:13 pm, derek wrote: > On Jun 17, 5:44 am, rahul jain wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > I have some filters set-up on admin page. As soon as I perform admin > > action. All filters are getting reset. > > > Is this is a bug from framework ? > > No.  There are work-arounds to get back to t

Re: Special characters and symbols in django?

2010-06-18 Thread Ian
On Jun 18, 3:42 am, "c.poll...@bangor.ac.uk" wrote: > Django version 1.1.2 and yes the columns in questions are nclob and > nvarchar > > The form i was using was to add the data was generated using model > formset factory > > Are there characters django just can't cope with? Do i need to clean > t

Re: admin filters getting reset after admin action

2010-06-18 Thread swinton
On Jun 18, 8:18 pm, swinton wrote: > On Jun 17, 4:13 pm, derek wrote: > > > On Jun 17, 5:44 am, rahul jain wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I have some filters set-up on admin page. As soon as I perform admin > > > action. All filters are getting reset. > > > > Is this is a bug from framework

How to do user defined fields in Django?

2010-06-18 Thread zweb
I want users of my app to be able to define their own fields in addition to the already existing fields. These fields will be displayed on webpage, in form and saved in database. Fields can be of any of the standard types. Any way to do it in django? -- You received this message because you ar

Re: Chase Paymentech

2010-06-18 Thread zweb
I thought Chase Paymentech uses authorize.net. Please correct me... so any sample code to integrate django based web app to authorize.net without going to chase or authorize.net hosted pages? On Jun 18, 11:09 am, surtyaar wrote: > Hi Bobby, > > You might be interested in a django clone of the

Re: How to do user defined fields in Django?

2010-06-18 Thread Richard Shebora
This project seems like what you want, but i am not sure if it is still maintained or stable. It is at least a very interesting piece of code. http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikidbase/ Thanks, Richard Shebora On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:32 PM, zweb wrote: > I want users of my app to be able to de

OR operator in django view

2010-06-18 Thread Nick
How would I write this conditional statement in a view? if not candidate.office_type == "USREP" or "USSEN" or "DJ" or "ASSOCDJ": office = '%s' % (candidate.office_type_description) else: office = [] As is stands, it doesn't seem to be running through all of the OR operato

Re: OR operator in django view

2010-06-18 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On vr, 2010-06-18 at 14:04 -0700, Nick wrote: > How would I write this conditional statement in a view? > > if not candidate.office_type == "USREP" or "USSEN" or "DJ" or > "ASSOCDJ": > office = '%s' % (candidate.office_type_description) > else: > office = [] > > > As is s

Re: Django Sphinx Foreign key search

2010-06-18 Thread urukay
So, here is the solution that can help u. I will explain it using these models: class Model1(models.Model): text_field = model_2 = models.ForeignKey('Model2') class Model2(models.Model): model_3 = models.ForeignKey('Model3') class Model3(models.Model): Goal

Re: OR operator in django view

2010-06-18 Thread Nick
Brilliant, thanks On Jun 18, 4:08 pm, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote: > On vr, 2010-06-18 at 14:04 -0700, Nick wrote: > > > How would I write this conditional statement in a view? > > >     if not candidate.office_type == "USREP" or "USSEN" or "DJ" or > > "ASSOCDJ": > >         office = '%s' % (candida

Re: How do I update a global variable?

2010-06-18 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Jun 18, 7:17 pm, aurphir wrote: > In my django application I have a global variable 'gv' which is > accessed by different requests coming from the end users. > > Now 'gv' holds a data of 2 MB size which needs to be update at regular > interval, pulling 2 MB data from the database for every requ

Re: static files, nginx, memcached

2010-06-18 Thread TheIvIaxx
Its a lot of little files and from what i've seen, the stat call is a bottleneck. If they are all in memcache, then it should scream. Which "hints" would you be referring? On Jun 18, 10:56 am, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:22 PM, TheIvIaxx wrote: > > My thoughts ri

Database Design Question

2010-06-18 Thread llanitedave
I'm putting together a system to track scientific samples of various types. The "various types" is what's making me scratch my head at the moment. Each sample type has a particular set of attributes, some of which are unique, others are shared with other sample types. For example, a fluid sample

Re: Django Sphinx Foreign key search

2010-06-18 Thread urukay
So, here is the solution that can help u. I will explain it using these models: class Model1(models.Model): text_field = model_2 = models.ForeignKey('Model2') class Model2(models.Model): model_3 = models.ForeignKey('Model3') class Model3(models.Model): Goa

Re: How do I update a global variable?

2010-06-18 Thread Stefan Frauenknecht
Please rethink your design! There is certainly no need for a global variable. There is may be a way to implement your requirement as a singleton that is being able to deliver the huge bag of data in a much more smarter way. Am 18.06.2010 um 20:17 schrieb aurphir : In my django application

Re: select multiple without using foreignkey

2010-06-18 Thread HARRY POTTRER
> Ages ago I wrote asnippetwith a model field and form field to deal > with this. It should still work. See:http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1200/ > -- > DR. I'm using this snippet like so: MONTHS = [ (1, "January"), (2, "February"), (3, "March"),

Re: Database Design Question

2010-06-18 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 4:28 AM, llanitedave wrote: > I'm putting together a system to track scientific samples of various > types. The "various types" is what's making me scratch my head at the > moment. > Prefer a table like follows (tblname:samples): sampleid, samplename , sampledesc etc e

Re: Database Design Question

2010-06-18 Thread Venkatraman S
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Venkatraman S wrote: > Prefer a table like follows (tblname:samples): sampleid, samplename , > sampledesc etc etc > Ok - i missed explaining why i would recommend this: In most of the applications, maintainence is a bigger pain than development. In your case,

Re: Serving media files

2010-06-18 Thread Jagdeep Singh Malhi
On Jun 17, 5:03 pm, Graham Dumpleton wrote: i copy the media directory in my "/home/yourname/mysite" directory. > > Thus, run Python and go: > > >>> import django > >>> import os > >>> os.path.dirname(django.__file__) import django import os os./usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packeages/ django

Re: enumerating view functions

2010-06-18 Thread dmitry b
Oops. Didn't see you reply. Thanks, I'll take a look at the command extension. BTW, the second link you provided is my own snippet :) I want to improve it with auto documentation extracted from the actual view functions. On Jun 16, 11:40 am, Alexis Roda wrote: > En/na Dmitry Beransky ha escri

Re: Database Design Question

2010-06-18 Thread llanitedave
Thanks for the response, Venkatraman. You're right that I don't anticipate a huge number of records here -- a few hundred thousand at the extreme high end. Sharding isn't something I considered, and I don't think it would be necessary. I guess it's mostly a normalization question. And while I w