Re: Guide for migrating to a custom user model?

2013-04-17 Thread Chris Streeter
I found this [1] blog post to be interesting. I can't vouch for it's accuracy as I haven't migrated my own site yet, but it looks correct from reading it. - Chris [1]: http://ponytech.net/blog/2013/03/31/migrate-your-user-profile-data-django-15-custom-user-model/ On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:34 P

Re: PostgresSQL or MySql with django?

2013-03-18 Thread Chris Streeter
I'd add to this that if you are interested in either running with an async worker like gevent or with Python 3 support, MySQL is a no-go. The main MySQL connector, MySQLdb, doesn't yet support Python 3; work is forthcoming in a branch, though no timeline is given. And if you want to have some sort

Re: How to make django's mysql connections to use utf8mb4 ?

2013-02-19 Thread Chris Streeter
There is some discussion on this ticket: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18392 The ticket also requires that a new version of MySQLdb be running to properly recognize the type. - Chris On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Peter of the Norse wrote: > Triple check your encoding type on the da

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2012-09-26 Thread Chris Streeter
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Re: Easiest way to access MySQL from Django on Mac OS X?...

2012-09-23 Thread Chris Streeter
When I'm setting up a new Mac OS system, the process I go through to install Python and MySQL. First, I install Python using this guide: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/install/osx/ The guide also installs Homebrew, which works great for me so far and is easily removable. After Py

Re: APPEND_SLASH = True with URL patterns without slash

2012-04-14 Thread Chris Streeter
Make sure that you have 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware' in your list of MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES. Otherwise APPEND_SLASH has no effect. - Chris On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 04:15, graeme wrote: > I have the following setup using Django 1.3: > > 1) Middleware that changes request.urlconf depend

Re: problem with south and UTC

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Streeter
Currently, the fix seems to be to use the development version of South which fixes it in most cases. See http://south.aeracode.org/ticket/1012 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 20:51, Kevin Anthony wrote: > i'm having a problem with south, i'm trying to migrate to USE_TZ > However i get this error: > (I'm