Re: Chat application in Django

Hi, @Jeff, Erlang! Pretty surprised to see that. @Alexander, doesn't work :( - or might be I am not able to get it.. @David, cool I'll try this, but will this work using mod_python / Apache? @ebry1, Imagine 1 people live chatting, that means 1 requests per second, but in real world, only

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

You could try ActivePython: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/downloads Then {{{ $ pypm install pil The following packages will be installed to ~/.local (2.6): pil-1.1.7-1 Get: [pypm-free.activestate.com] pil 1.1.7-1 Installing pil-1.1.7-1 Fixing script ~/.local/bin/pilconvert.py

Re: Django UserProfile's - the hardest part of the whole framework

(snip 'programming by accident' code) I'm not sure you really understand what you're doing :-/ > > > Here's my problem, I know you don't get direct access to the user > > > model, > > > Yes you do. > > > > so making the user email editable is kind of tricky > > > Why so ? > > you can't query

Re: {% csrf_token %} template tag not outputting the hidden field

Hi Daniel- Thanks for your response. No, I wasn't generating the form within django; I had hand coded a form into the page; because I had intended that this form appear on every page in the side. I'll try it as you suggest and report back. This may involve learning how to write

Re: set utf8 as default database char set

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 23:52, Elim Qiu wrote: > I just feel kind of redundant to have the same text in and above the > textfields. This is a result of the tutorial - they aren't always the same :) > And also the odd table layout that makes choice fields and votes'

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

So I tried the Macports option and it started to look good, but then I got: ---> Installing py26-pil @1.1.7_1 ---> Activating py26-pil @1.1.7_1 Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/bin/pilconvert.py already

Re: Chat application in Django

I am interested in this problem too, I need to pass some additional data along side chat messages. Why did you decide to abandon polling? I was thinking of thinking of using it and updating about twice a second. On Aug 31, 6:34 am, Shamail Tayyab wrote: > Hi, > >    I am

Re: Please wait page trouble

$.getJSON should be embedded in your initial Page Wait response page. The first argument isn't a view, rather a URL. So you might want to use the django url template tag, e.g., $.getJSON('{% url whatever.run_DHM %}', ...) The second argument is a callback function. The browser stores the

Re: Breaking many-to-many connections

I finally pinned down the problem; it was in an unrelated area. Thanks, On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Christos Jonathan Hayward < christos.jonathan.hayw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an Entity which has a many-to-many field "tags" to Tags. I'm trying > to pin down a bug, and wanted a sanity

Breaking many-to-many connections

I have an Entity which has a many-to-many field "tags" to Tags. I'm trying to pin down a bug, and wanted a sanity check: entity = directory.models.Entity.objects.get(id = int(search.group(1))) entity.tags.remove(directory.models.Tag.objects.get(id =

Re: Please wait page trouble

Ok, I'll try to elaborate. again java is foreign to me although I've spent all day trying to learn some. Here's the code: def please_wait(request): # ... setup context or something return render_to_response("please_wait.html") def run_DHM(request) # ... perform calculations and collect

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

I suffered for a couple of days trying to install PIL on snow leopard myself just a few weeks ago. I'm on 10.6.4 as well, although I'm using python 2.7. But most of the hurt is related to libjpeg, so that shouldn't matter. I eventually got everything running by following the directions posted

Re: Please wait page trouble

Rolando's suggestion is a pretty straight forward method to achieve what you want. You probably need to elaborate where in the process you're having trouble (although based on your response maybe it's the first step?). You can indeed call a view.my function from your please wait template, but you

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

Thanks Bill and Mathieu! I will try the Mac port option first, in fact I did look at it last night probably around 1am or so... I treied rebuilding the virtual env I was using as well just to verify, but the problem seem higher up the stream and Bill indicated. I will take a look for the ld.conf

Re: Please wait page trouble

I'm getting no where with this, are there any other suggestions on row to render a 'please wait' page while other python works? Can I call a view.my function to run from my 'please wait' template? Please be as elementary as possible as javascript, AJAX, jquery, and the like are brand new to me.

Re: Chat application in Django

Check this out: It's pretty awesome and works with tornado on flash and serves AMF objects. On Aug 31, 12:03 pm, David Koblas wrote: >   Funny you should ask -- > > The basic challenge with any chat application is the long polling bit, > django by default isn't really designed

Re: Django UserProfile's - the hardest part of the whole framework

Here's my problem, I have successfully got the user to update his/her email. However, I can not figure out why my imageField for my profile is not updating, neither the copying of the file or the image path is adding to my user profile table. I have included the mimetype on my form. I've done

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

To work with PIL and other librairies a little bit weird and difficult to install the best way is to install Macport and after that: port install py26-pil and you'll need to use the python of the macport installation: $ /opt/local/bin/python2.6 It's the samething on linux, i'm alway using the

Re: PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

This sounds more like libjpeg isn't on the library load path, a system, rather than python, setting. I haven't done this with a Mac, but PIL has been troublesome on *nix servers for us as well. The common problems for us don't sound like your problem. [Some versions of PIL install as "Imaging"

PIL on 10.6 = PAIN

Howdy! I have been working with Django/Pinax on a 10.6.4 system with python 2.6.6 and have had no luck getting PIL to work. I have looked through about 10-15 paged including ones listed on this group with no results. Currently the error I am getting is: The _imaging C module is not installed I

Re: Overriding flatpages class meta

Actually, I would *avoid* modifying the flatpages source, but that does raise a good point -- look at the source and copy/paste the Meta defined inside the class, making the overrides you need in your subclass (redefine the Meta). You'll have to watch for changes if/when you switch django

Re: How to create a gerarchical list in admin for flatpages?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 14:11, Karim Gorjux wrote: > I would like to > realize a easy admin page for my flat pages that in Django-CMS is > called "site map". I found what I need. Is here: http://code.google.com/p/django-mptt/ -- Karim Gojux www.karimblog.net -- You

Re: Overriding flatpages class meta

Try to modify the flatpages source! You can find it directly in your django installation. -- Karim Gojux www.karimblog.net -- 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: Overriding flatpages class meta

The meta class instance is accessed through ClassName._meta -- not ClassName.meta I tried this when I got back last night and had (other) issues myself, so this might not be the right approach anyway. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users"

Re: Chat application in Django

Funny you should ask -- The basic challenge with any chat application is the long polling bit, django by default isn't really designed to handle that. Other servers (Tornado, etc.) are much better at handling the long polling cycle that typical web chat applications require. I was just

Re: Web hosting?

Webfaction +2 http://www.webfaction.com/demos/django Regards Juande We will be going live in a while, and we need hosting. I have a host in mind, but I wanted to know what others think? In your view, which host provides good Django support and decent performance? -- You received this

Django Satchmo render company_name problem and some mods

Hello everyone... Ive been having the following problem in my satchmo shop, when registering a new account, the template welcome.txt is not loading the variable 'company_name' --> debug info : http://dpaste.com/236858/ Besides that there are two things that I want to do... One is to reverse the

Re: Django + Postgres

Hi, Actually, there is a confusion between the administrative data django fills and the data the admin application owns itself. Unless I'm mistaken, Django admin application only creates 1 table I named in my previous message (django_admin_log). Can you check this table has been created ? If it

Re: Please wait page trouble

I'll look into this. I have no idea what you mean by 'ajax' or 'json'. Thus your code doe'snt really make sense given my lack of knowlege. I will do some googling to see if I can piece it together. Thanks for the help! On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Rolando Espinoza La Fuente

Re: Overriding flatpages class meta

Thanks Owen but is doesn't work. The similar Error message: contribute_to_class if self.meta: AttributeError: 'Options' object has no attribute 'meta' On Aug 30, 8:03 pm, Owen Nelson wrote: > Sorry to be guessing here, but I was looking at something similar recently. > My

Re: set utf8 as default database char set

I just feel kind of redundant to have the same text in and above the textfields. And also the odd table layout that makes choice fields and votes' fields so apart; and doubt if I did something wrong. At the moment, I only care about following the tutorial correctly. If you think it looks fine,

Re: Chat application in Django

I've seen this project: http://code.google.com/p/django-chat/ but I don't test it... perhaps the code can helps you. What about use a free protocol as XMPP (jabber) and write a "client" for django? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 14:08, Jeff Bell wrote: > Pretty sure fb

Re: Chat application in Django

Pretty sure fb uses Erlang for chat. On Aug 31, 2010 7:34 AM, "Shamail Tayyab" wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on a chat application in Django, how can I ensure that I > do not have to poll the server for any chat data. > > Possible approaches that I've been to: > > 1. BAD -

Re: Django + Postgres

Apologies I should have been more clear, 'It' refers to my domain name when visited "/admin" All the django settings are correct, I've used sqlite3 and got the admin up and working. So I have installed postgres, pyscopg2. su postgres created a database updated my settings.py: DATABASES = {

Re: Django + Postgres

Also, what kind of users are you speaking about ? system, database or django users ? Do you have the admin site available in the urls ? Did you uncomment both the url and the auto discovering part ? Did syncdb showed django_admin_log table being created (or can you check it has been created) ?

Chat application in Django

Hi, I am working on a chat application in Django, how can I ensure that I do not have to poll the server for any chat data. Possible approaches that I've been to: 1. BAD - use polling. 2. Use long polling - bad approach afa browser support is concerned. 3. Using sockets in flash - makes

Re: Django + Postgres

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 04:30 -0700, Robbington wrote: > Hi, > > I seem to be having a problem setting up django and postgresql. > > I have created a database and switched users to postgres then sync'd > the database successfully in my django project directory. But it isn't > finding the admin

Chat application in Django

Hi, I am working on a chat application in Django, how can I ensure that I do not have to poll the server for any chat data. Possible approaches that I've been to: 1. BAD - use polling. 2. Use long polling - bad approach afa browser support is concerned. 3. Using sockets in flash - makes

Django + Postgres

Hi, I seem to be having a problem setting up django and postgresql. I have created a database and switched users to postgres then sync'd the database successfully in my django project directory. But it isn't finding the admin page still. No errors, just cant find them. Can any one help with

Re: Query overhead or not ?

Thanks for your advise. I'm short of time right now so I briefly looked at django's aggregation possibilities. I'll look into them more deeply tonight. But I stumbled upon a problem. Post.objects.values('tags') Gives me: FieldError: Invalid field name: 'tags' In [56]: Post.tags Post.tags

Re: set utf8 as default database char set

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Elim Qiu wrote: > I'm in tutorial 2. Looks like I did something wrong. Please help. thanks > See the image attached > The image looks fine to me. What do you see that you think is wrong? Karen -- http://tracey.org/kmt/ -- You received

How to create a gerarchical list in admin for flatpages?

Hi all! I'm working to create my CMS on Django, I would like to realize a easy admin page for my flat pages that in Django-CMS is called "site map". How I can do that? Are there any tutorial or how to about that? Have you any advice? Thanks! The site map in Django-CMS:

Re: Re: Moderation of posts

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Henrik Genssen wrote: > @Karen: > is there a view in the admin section, where you can filter posts that were > never answered? > And if: can it be made public? There are a lot of peaple who might want to > help - (see stackoverflow > or

Extending LogEntry model

I want to add a column to the logentry model in admin section.How can I do this? thanks -- 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

how to add two numbers with django - revisited

hi, there was a recent thread on this subject, and I had an idea that this may be a good way to give a basic instruction in the way django works to people who come from radically different backgrounds: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/80621.html -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- You received this

Re: Web hosting?

Also the Linode support team are amazing, I have been left nothing but impressed by them. On Aug 31, 10:25 am, Robbington wrote: > I use a Linode with Ubuntu serving django with a uwsgi/cherokee setup. > Its remarkable how easy and intuitive it is and its hardly bank >

Re: Django UserProfile's - the hardest part of the whole framework

On 31 août, 06:16, reduxdj wrote: > So, I'm still newer to django. I have user registration, > authentication, imagefields, filters, and more all built into my > application and working. So now, I need a user to be able to edit his > own email and upload an image to the

Re: Web hosting?

I use a Linode with Ubuntu serving django with a uwsgi/cherokee setup. Its remarkable how easy and intuitive it is and its hardly bank breaking at £10 a month. You cant beat the flexibility that you get. The only complaint I've got is the compatiblity issues with Django 1.1 and Cms. Its caused me

Re: Web hosting?

Thanks Kenneth, interesting summary. We would likely start off with WF as our needs at this point should be covered by their hosting. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:13 +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > > We will be

Re: Custom attributes in Django

Hi thanks for quick response. I was thinking more about real custom attributes. Be able to define a string, or choice filed from admin. And after all create query and/or render form on it. Application that we are working at requires different attributes on objects from client to client. We were

Re: Staticstic app, ask for idea.

To integrate a calculated value with search features from admin app, I don't know any other way than create and save a calculated field on your model ... This calculated field, you can calculate it with cube ... but if you don't use the Cube for any other statistic than that, it is too much

Re: Web hosting?

On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 10:13 +0200, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > We will be going live in a while, and we need hosting. I have a host > in > mind, but I wanted to know what others think? In your view, which host > provides good Django support and decent performance? low cost small site -

Re: Web hosting?

Looks like my proposed host is at the top there by a wide margin On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > Ah, thanks Federico :) > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Federico Maggi > wrote: > >> On Aug 31, 2010, at

Re: Web hosting?

Ah, thanks Federico :) On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Federico Maggi wrote: > On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > > > We will be going live in a while, and we need hosting. I have a host in > mind, but I wanted to know what others think? In

Re: Web hosting?

On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:13 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube wrote: > We will be going live in a while, and we need hosting. I have a host in mind, > but I wanted to know what others think? In your view, which host provides > good Django support and decent performance?

Web hosting?

Hi folks, I introduced Django at work not very long ago and the uptake has been good. We are seeing early results working with the framework (somebody who never previously used Python or Django has managed to build a web app well within proposed time frames). We will be going live in a while,

RE: Re: Moderation of posts

Hi, I had a lot of problems, too. In the google groups settings google blamed me, that the mail-server I was using is bouncing... - well - I used google mail... Now I switched in the settings to a private mail account and most of all works fine now. Still not everything all the time... @Karen:

apps for versioning

I need to implement some functionality, and I'm wondering if any of you know of an app component that does this (so hopefully I don't have to). I want to have versioning on a text field similar to the way WordPress lets you save drafts and multiple revisions. I've checked out Django fullhistory,

Re: Query overhead or not ?

> tags = Tag.objects.all() > > for t in tags: >    indexed_tags[t] = Post.objects.filter(tags__name=t).count() > > Next I would sort indexed_tags and I have a dictionary of which tags are used > the most. > > I'm wondering if this is a good idea ? Since if I have 1000 tags this would > require

Query overhead or not ?

First of all I know of the django-taggit application. But I'm new to django and I thought this would be a good way of getting to know this great framework a little bit better. That lined out, I have a Post and a Tag model. Each Tag.name property of the tag model is unique. I'm trying to figure