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• django: failing tests from django.contrib.auth

  - by gruszczy

  When I run my django test I get following errors, that are outside of my test suite: ====================================================================== ERROR: test_known_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserCustomTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 160, in test_known_user super(RemoteUserCustomTest, self).test_known_user() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 67, in test_known_user self.assertEqual(response.context['user'].username, 'knownuser') TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_last_login (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserCustomTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 87, in test_last_login self.assertNotEqual(default_login, response.context['user'].last_login) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_no_remote_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserCustomTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 33, in test_no_remote_user self.assert_(isinstance(response.context['user'], AnonymousUser)) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_unknown_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserCustomTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 168, in test_unknown_user super(RemoteUserCustomTest, self).test_unknown_user() File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 51, in test_unknown_user self.assertEqual(response.context['user'].username, 'newuser') TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_known_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserNoCreateTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 67, in test_known_user self.assertEqual(response.context['user'].username, 'knownuser') TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_last_login (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserNoCreateTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 87, in test_last_login self.assertNotEqual(default_login, response.context['user'].last_login) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_no_remote_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserNoCreateTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 33, in test_no_remote_user self.assert_(isinstance(response.context['user'], AnonymousUser)) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_unknown_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserNoCreateTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 118, in test_unknown_user self.assert_(isinstance(response.context['user'], AnonymousUser)) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_known_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 67, in test_known_user self.assertEqual(response.context['user'].username, 'knownuser') TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_last_login (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 87, in test_last_login self.assertNotEqual(default_login, response.context['user'].last_login) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_no_remote_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 33, in test_no_remote_user self.assert_(isinstance(response.context['user'], AnonymousUser)) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== ERROR: test_unknown_user (django.contrib.auth.tests.remote_user.RemoteUserTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/remote_user.py", line 51, in test_unknown_user self.assertEqual(response.context['user'].username, 'newuser') TypeError: 'NoneType' object is unsubscriptable ====================================================================== FAIL: test_current_site_in_context_after_login (django.contrib.auth.tests.views.LoginTest) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/django/contrib/auth/tests/views.py", line 190, in test_current_site_in_context_after_login self.assertEquals(response.status_code, 200) AssertionError: 302 != 200 Could anyone explain me, what am I doing wrong or what I should set to get those tests pass?

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• Django CMS - not able to upload images through cmsplugin_filer_image

  - by Luke

  i have a problem with a local installation on django cms 2.3.3: i've installed it trough pip, in a separated virtualenv. next i followed the tutorial for settings.py configuration, i started the server. Then in the admin i created an page (home), and i've tried to add an image in the placeholder through the cmsplugin_filer_image, but the upload seems that doesn't work. here's my settings.py: # Django settings for cms1 project. # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import os gettext = lambda s: s PROJECT_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) DEBUG = True TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG ADMINS = ( # ('Your Name', '[email protected]'), ) MANAGERS = ADMINS DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2', # Add 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'. 'NAME': 'cms1', # Or path to database file if using sqlite3. 'USER': 'cms', # Not used with sqlite3. 'PASSWORD': 'cms', # Not used with sqlite3. 'HOST': '', # Set to empty string for localhost. Not used with sqlite3. 'PORT': '', # Set to empty string for default. Not used with sqlite3. } } # Local time zone for this installation. Choices can be found here: # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_zones_by_name # although not all choices may be available on all operating systems. # In a Windows environment this must be set to your system time zone. TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Rome' # Language code for this installation. All choices can be found here: # http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/language-identifiers.html LANGUAGE_CODE = 'it-it' SITE_ID = 1 # If you set this to False, Django will make some optimizations so as not # to load the internationalization machinery. USE_I18N = True # If you set this to False, Django will not format dates, numbers and # calendars according to the current locale. USE_L10N = True # If you set this to False, Django will not use timezone-aware datetimes. USE_TZ = True # Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/" MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "media") # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/" MEDIA_URL = '/media/' # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to. # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/" STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "static") STATIC_URL = "/static/" # Additional locations of static files STATICFILES_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "static_auto"), # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static". # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. ) # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in # various locations. STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', # 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder', ) # Make this unique, and don't share it with anybody. SECRET_KEY = '^c2q3d8w)f#gk%5i)(#i*lwt%lm-!2=(*1d!1cf+rg&-hqi_9u' # List of callables that know how to import templates from various sources. TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.Loader', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.Loader', # 'django.template.loaders.eggs.Loader', ) MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware', 'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware', 'cms.middleware.multilingual.MultilingualURLMiddleware', 'cms.middleware.page.CurrentPageMiddleware', 'cms.middleware.user.CurrentUserMiddleware', 'cms.middleware.toolbar.ToolbarMiddleware', # Uncomment the next line for simple clickjacking protection: # 'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware', ) ROOT_URLCONF = 'cms1.urls' # Python dotted path to the WSGI application used by Django's runserver. WSGI_APPLICATION = 'cms1.wsgi.application' TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(PROJECT_PATH, "templates"), # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/django/templates". # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. ) CMS_TEMPLATES = ( ('template_1.html', 'Template One'), ('template_2.html', 'Template Two'), ) TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = ( 'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth', 'django.core.context_processors.i18n', 'django.core.context_processors.request', 'django.core.context_processors.media', 'django.core.context_processors.static', 'cms.context_processors.media', 'sekizai.context_processors.sekizai', ) LANGUAGES = [ ('it', 'Italiano'), ('en', 'English'), ] INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'cms', #django CMS itself 'mptt', #utilities for implementing a modified pre-order traversal tree 'menus', #helper for model independent hierarchical website navigation 'south', #intelligent schema and data migrations 'sekizai', #for javascript and css management #'cms.plugins.file', 'cms.plugins.flash', 'cms.plugins.googlemap', 'cms.plugins.link', #'cms.plugins.picture', 'cms.plugins.snippet', 'cms.plugins.teaser', 'cms.plugins.text', #'cms.plugins.video', 'cms.plugins.twitter', 'filer', 'cmsplugin_filer_file', 'cmsplugin_filer_folder', 'cmsplugin_filer_image', 'cmsplugin_filer_teaser', 'cmsplugin_filer_video', 'easy_thumbnails', 'PIL', # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: 'django.contrib.admin', # Uncomment the next line to enable admin documentation: # 'django.contrib.admindocs', ) # A sample logging configuration. The only tangible logging # performed by this configuration is to send an email to # the site admins on every HTTP 500 error when DEBUG=False. # See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging for # more details on how to customize your logging configuration. LOGGING = { 'version': 1, 'disable_existing_loggers': False, 'filters': { 'require_debug_false': { '()': 'django.utils.log.RequireDebugFalse' } }, 'handlers': { 'mail_admins': { 'level': 'ERROR', 'filters': ['require_debug_false'], 'class': 'django.utils.log.AdminEmailHandler' } }, 'loggers': { 'django.request': { 'handlers': ['mail_admins'], 'level': 'ERROR', 'propagate': True, }, } } when i try to upload an image, in the clipboard section i don't have the thumbnail, but just an 'undefined' message: and this is the runserver console while trying to upload: [20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "POST /admin/filer/clipboard/operations/upload/?qqfile=29708_1306856312320_7706073_n.jpg HTTP/1.1" 500 248133 [20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "GET /it/admin/filer/folder/unfiled_images/undefined HTTP/1.1" 301 0 [20/Oct/2012 15:15:56] "GET /it/admin/filer/folder/unfiled_images/undefined/ HTTP/1.1" 404 1739 Also, this is project filesystem: cms1 +-- cms1 ¦   +-- __init__.py ¦   +-- __init__.pyc ¦   +-- media ¦   ¦   +-- filer_public ¦   ¦   +-- 2012 ¦   ¦   +-- 10 ¦   ¦   +-- 20 ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_1.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_2.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_3.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_4.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_5.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_6.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n_7.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- 29708_1306856312320_7706073_n.jpg ¦   ¦   +-- torrent-client-macosx.jpg ¦   +-- settings.py ¦   +-- settings.pyc ¦   +-- static ¦   +-- static_auto ¦   +-- static_manual ¦   +-- templates ¦   ¦   +-- base.html ¦   ¦   +-- template_1.html ¦   ¦   +-- template_2.html ¦   +-- urls.py ¦   +-- urls.pyc ¦   +-- wsgi.py ¦   +-- wsgi.pyc +-- manage.py So files are uploaded, but they are not accessible to cms. there's a similar question here, but doens't help me so much. It would be very helpful any help on this issue to me. Thanks, luke

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• Change user email in Django without using django-profiles

  - by mridang

  Hi guys, In my Django application I would like the user to be able to change the email address. I've seen solution of StackOverflow pointing people to django-profiles. Unfortunately I don't want to use a full fledged profile module to accomplish a tiny feat of changing the users email. Has anyone seen this implemented anywhere. The email address verification procedure by sending a confirmation email is a requisite in this scenario. I've spent a great a deal of time trying to a find a solution that works but to no avail. Cheers.

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• Overriding the save() method of a model that uses django-mptt

  - by saturdayplace

  I've been using django-mptt in my project for a while now, it's fabulous. Recently, I've found a need to override a model's save() method that uses mptt, and I'm getting an error when I try to save a new instance of that model: Exception Type: ValueError at /admin/scrivener/page/add/ Exception Value: Cannot use None as a query value I'm assuming that this is a result of the fact that the instance hasn't been stuck into a tree yet, but I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. I added a comment about it onto a similar issue on the project's tracker, but I was hoping that someone here might be able to put me on the right track faster. Here's the traceback. Environment: Request Method: POST Request URL: http://localhost:8000/admin/scrivener/page/add/ Django Version: 1.2 rc 1 SVN-13117 Python Version: 2.6.4 Installed Applications: ['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.sitemaps', 'mptt', 'filebrowser', 'south', 'haystack', 'django_static', 'etc', 'scrivener', 'gregor', 'annunciator'] Installed Middleware: ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware') Traceback: File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 100. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in wrapper 239. return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 74. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\views\decorators\cache.py" in _wrapped_view_func 69. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\sites.py" in inner 190. return view(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapper 21. return decorator(bound_func)(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 74. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in bound_func 17. return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\transaction.py" in _commit_on_success 299. res = func(*args, **kw) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in add_view 795. self.save_model(request, new_object, form, change=False) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in save_model 597. obj.save() File "B:\django-apps\scrivener\models.py" in save 205. self.url = self.get_absolute_url() File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\functional.py" in _curried 55. return _curried_func(*(args+moreargs), **dict(kwargs, **morekwargs)) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\base.py" in get_absolute_url 940. return settings.ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES.get('%s.%s' % (opts.app_label, opts.module_name), func)(self, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\__init__.py" in inner 31. bits = func(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\scrivener\models.py" in get_absolute_url 194. for ancestor in self.get_ancestors(): File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\mptt\models.py" in get_ancestors 23. opts.tree_id_attr: getattr(self, opts.tree_id_attr), File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\manager.py" in filter 141. return self.get_query_set().filter(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\query.py" in filter 550. return self._filter_or_exclude(False, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\query.py" in _filter_or_exclude 568. clone.query.add_q(Q(*args, **kwargs)) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\sql\query.py" in add_q 1131. can_reuse=used_aliases) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\sql\query.py" in add_filter 1000. raise ValueError("Cannot use None as a query value") Exception Type: ValueError at /admin/scrivener/page/add/ Exception Value: Cannot use None as a query value

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• Where is meta.local_fields set in django.db.models.base.py ?

  - by BryanWheelock

  I'm getting the error: Exception Value: (1110, "Column 'about' specified twice") As I was reviewing the Django error page, I noticed that the customizations the model User, seem to be appended to the List twice. This seems to be happening here in django/db/model/base.py in base_save(): values = [(f, f.get_db_prep_save(raw and getattr(self, f.attname) or f.pre_save(self, True))) for f in meta.local_fields] this is what Django error page shows values to be: values = [(<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa78996c>, u'kallie'), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa7899cc>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa789a2c>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.EmailField object at 0xa789a8c>, u'[email protected]'), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa789b2c>, 'sha1$d4a80$0e5xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxddadfb07'), (<django.db.models.fields.BooleanField object at 0xa789bcc>, False), (<django.db.models.fields.BooleanField object at 0xa789c6c>, True), (<django.db.models.fields.BooleanField object at 0xa789d2c>, False), (<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField object at 0xa789dcc>, u'2010-02-03 14:54:35'), (<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField object at 0xa789e2c>, u'2010-02-03 14:54:35'), # this is where the values from the User model customizations show up (<django.db.models.fields.BooleanField object at 0xa8c69ac>, False), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa8c688c>, None), (<django.db.models.fields.PositiveIntegerField object at 0xa8c69cc>, 1), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa8c69ec>, 'b5ab1603b2308xxxxxxxxxxx75bca1'), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xa8c6dac>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xa8c6e4c>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xa8c6e8c>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xa8c6ecc>, 10), (<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField object at 0xa8c6eec>, u'2010-02-03 14:54:35'), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa8c6f2c>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.URLField object at 0xa8c6f6c>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xa8c6fac>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.DateField object at 0xa8c6fec>, None), (<django.db.models.fields.TextField object at 0xa8cb04c>, ''), # at this point User model customizations repeats itself (<django.db.models.fields.BooleanField object at 0xa663b0c>, False), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xaa1e94c>, None), (<django.db.models.fields.PositiveIntegerField object at 0xaa1e34c>, 1), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xaa1e40c>, 'b5ab1603b2308050ebd62f49ca75bca1'), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xa8c6d8c>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xaa2378c>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xaa237ac>, 0), (<django.db.models.fields.SmallIntegerField object at 0xaa237ec>, 10), (<django.db.models.fields.DateTimeField object at 0xaa2380c>, u'2010-02-03 14:54:35'), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xaa2384c>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.URLField object at 0xaa2388c>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.CharField object at 0xaa238cc>, ''), (<django.db.models.fields.DateField object at 0xaa2390c>, None), (<django.db.models.fields.TextField object at 0xaa2394c>, '')] Since this app is in Production, I can't figure out how to use pdb.set_trace() to see what's going on inside of save_base. The customizations to User are: User.add_to_class('email_isvalid', models.BooleanField(default=False)) User.add_to_class('email_key', models.CharField(max_length=16, null=True)) User.add_to_class('reputation', models.PositiveIntegerField(default=1)) User.add_to_class('gravatar', models.CharField(max_length=32)) User.add_to_class('email_feeds', generic.GenericRelation(EmailFeed)) User.add_to_class('favorite_questions', models.ManyToManyField(Question, through=FavoriteQuestion, related_name='favorited_by')) User.add_to_class('badges', models.ManyToManyField(Badge, through=Award, related_name='awarded_to')) User.add_to_class('gold', models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)) User.add_to_class('silver', models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)) User.add_to_class('bronze', models.SmallIntegerField(default=0)) User.add_to_class('questions_per_page', models.SmallIntegerField(choices=QUESTIONS_PER_PAGE_CHOICES, default=10)) User.add_to_class('last_seen', models.DateTimeField(default=datetime.datetime.now)) User.add_to_class('real_name', models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)) User.add_to_class('website', models.URLField(max_length=200, blank=True)) User.add_to_class('location', models.CharField(max_length=100, blank=True)) User.add_to_class('date_of_birth', models.DateField(null=True, blank=True)) User.add_to_class('about', models.TextField(blank=True)) Django1.1.1 Python 2.5

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• sort django queryset by latest instance of a subset of related model

  - by rsp

  I have an Order model and order_event model. Each order_event has a foreignkey to order. so from an order instance i can get: myorder.order_event_set. I want to get a list of all orders but i want them to be sorted by the date of the last event. A statement like this works to sort by the latest event date: queryset = Order.objects.all().annotate(latest_event_date=Max('order_event__event_datetime')).order_by('latest_event_date') However, what I really need is a list of all orders sorted by latest date of A SUBSET OF EVENTS. For example my events are categorized into "scheduling", "processing", etc. So I should be able to get a list of all orders sorted by the latest scheduling event. This django doc (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/aggregation/#filter-and-exclude) shows how I can get the latest schedule event using a filter but this excludes orders without a scheduling event. I thought I could combine the filtered queryset with a queryset that includes back those orders that are missing a scheduling event...but I'm not quite sure how to do this. I saw answers related to using python list but it would be much more useful to have a proper django queryset (ie for a view with pagination, etc.)

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• Django-admin.py not working (-bash:django-admin.py: command not found)

  - by Diego

  I'm having trouble getting django-admin.py to work... it's in this first location: /Users/mycomp/bin/ but I think I need it in another location for the terminal to recognize it, no? Noob, Please help. Thanks!! my-computer:~/Django-1.1.1 mycomp$ sudo ln -s /Users/mycomp/bin/django-admin.py /Users/mycomp/django-1.1.1/django-admin.py Password: ln: /Users/mycomp/django-1.1.1/django-admin.py: File exists my-computer:~/Django-1.1.1 mycomp$ django-admin.py --version -bash: django-admin.py: command not found

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• Django 1.2 + South 0.7 + django-annoying's AutoOneToOneField leads to TypeError: 'LegacyConnection'

  - by konrad

  I'm using Django 1.2 trunk with South 0.7 and an AutoOneToOneField copied from django-annoying. South complained that the field does not have rules defined and the new version of South no longer has an automatic field type parser. So I read the South documentation and wrote the following definition (basically an exact copy of the OneToOneField rules): rules = [ ( (AutoOneToOneField), [], { "to": ["rel.to", {}], "to_field": ["rel.field_name", {"default_attr": "rel.to._meta.pk.name"}], "related_name": ["rel.related_name", {"default": None}], "db_index": ["db_index", {"default": True}], }, ) ] from south.modelsinspector import add_introspection_rules add_introspection_rules(rules, ["^myapp"]) Now South raises the following error when I do a schemamigration. Traceback (most recent call last): File "manage.py", line 11, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "django/core/management/base.py", line 196, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) File "django/core/management/base.py", line 223, in execute output = self.handle(*args, **options) File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/management/commands/schemamigration.py", line 92, in handle (k, v) for k, v in freezer.freeze_apps([migrations.app_label()]).items() File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/creator/freezer.py", line 33, in freeze_apps model_defs[model_key(model)] = prep_for_freeze(model) File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/creator/freezer.py", line 65, in prep_for_freeze fields = modelsinspector.get_model_fields(model, m2m=True) File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/modelsinspector.py", line 322, in get_model_fields args, kwargs = introspector(field) File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/modelsinspector.py", line 271, in introspector arg_defs, kwarg_defs = matching_details(field) File "South-0.7-py2.6.egg/south/modelsinspector.py", line 187, in matching_details if any([isinstance(field, x) for x in classes]): TypeError: 'LegacyConnection' object is not iterable Is this related to a recent change in Django 1.2 trunk? How do I fix this? I use this field as follows: class Bar(models.Model): foo = AutoOneToOneField("foo.Foo", primary_key=True, related_name="bar") For reference the field code from django-tagging: class AutoSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor(SingleRelatedObjectDescriptor): def __get__(self, instance, instance_type=None): try: return super(AutoSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor, self).__get__(instance, instance_type) except self.related.model.DoesNotExist: obj = self.related.model(**{self.related.field.name: instance}) obj.save() return obj class AutoOneToOneField(OneToOneField): def contribute_to_related_class(self, cls, related): setattr(cls, related.get_accessor_name(), AutoSingleRelatedObjectDescriptor(related))

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• Lightning fast forum based around metadata / tags? [closed]

  - by Dan W

  Possible Duplicate: What Forum Software should I use? I wonder if anything like this exists. I'd like to add a forum to my site, but instead of the usual forum/subforum/sub-subforum structure, I'd like to use a metadata/tag approach where everything exists as a single directory, and where there's a search field at the top which instantly (<0.5 sec) filters the threads to a particular keyword or keywords. Also, as the admin, I would be able to add highly visible buttons at the top, which can be clicked on for the main categories I choose for the forum (nevertheless, users can also add tags to their own threads outside of these default main tags I supply if they wish). This approach, if done properly, is more powerful, efficient, maintenance free, scalable and friendly than a standard forum, so I was hoping someone had the same idea and made something out of it. It couldn't be that hard. I'd want the speed to be up to (or near) the standard of this: http://forum.dlang.org/ Other forums (e.g.: phpBB) are orders of magnitude worse than that in terms of latency (posting or browsing), and I think that is wrong, even in principle ;)

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• Django - How best to handle ValidationErrors after form.save(commit=False)

  - by orokusaki

  This is a fragment of my code from a view: if form.is_valid(): instance = form.save(commit=False) try: instance.account = request.account instance.full_clean() except ValidationError, e: # Do something with the errors here... I don't know what the best thing to do here is, but I certainly don't want to do it 180 times. This is an utter mess. Who would want to handle validation errors manually in every view. If you're not modifying the instance after save(commit=False), you don't have to worry about this, but what about in my case where every model has a foreign key to account which is set behind the scenes and hidden from the user? Any help is really appreciated.

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• Django cannot find my templatetags, even though it's in INSTALLED_APPS and has a __init__.py

  - by Vivian Short

  I just installed django-compress (http://code.google.com/p/django-compress) into /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/compress. I added 'compress' to INSTALLED_APPS. In my template file, I wrote {% load compressed %}. I got the error: 'compressed' is not a valid tag library: Could not load template library from django.templatetags.compressed, No module named compressed I verified that there is an init.py in compress, as well as in compress/templatetags/. I tried putting the compress directory into PYTHONPATH. I ran python and wrote "import compress" and that worked. Your suggestions would be very appreciated! What else can I try?

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• django: error while migrating from 1.1 to 1.2

  - by gruszczy

  I am trying to migrate our django project from 1.1 to 1.2, but I get following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "./manage.py", line 11, in <module> execute_manager(settings) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 438, in execute_manager utility.execute() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 379, in execute self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 209, in execute translation.activate('en-us') File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 66, in activate return real_activate(language) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/functional.py", line 55, in _curried return _curried_func(*(args+moreargs), **dict(kwargs, **morekwargs)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/__init__.py", line 36, in delayed_loader return getattr(trans, real_name)(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 193, in activate _active[currentThread()] = translation(language) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 176, in translation default_translation = _fetch(settings.LANGUAGE_CODE) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/translation/trans_real.py", line 159, in _fetch app = import_module(appname) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/utils/importlib.py", line 35, in import_module __import__(name) File "/home/gruszczy/Programy/bozorth/../bozorth/notifications/__init__.py", line 2, in <module> from django.db.models.signals import post_save File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/__init__.py", line 75, in <module> connection = connections[DEFAULT_DB_ALIAS] File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 92, in __getitem__ conn = backend.DatabaseWrapper(db, alias) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/base.py", line 154, in __init__ super(DatabaseWrapper, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) TypeError: __init__() takes exactly 2 arguments (3 given) Anyone encountered this problem and know, how to solve?

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• Strip tags (with tags inside attributes and nested tags) using javascript

  - by Kokizzu

  What the fastest (in performance) way to strip strings from tags, most solution i've tried that uses regexp not resulting correct values for tags inside attributes (yes, i know it's wrong), example test case: var str = "<div data-content='yo! press this: <br/> <button type=\"button\"><i class=\"glyphicon glyphicon-disk\"></i> Save</button>' data-title='<div>this one for tooltips <div>seriously</div></div>'> this is the real content<div> with another nested</div></div>" that should resulting: this is the real content with another nested

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• How do I upgrade django on ubuntu 9.04?

  - by Lorin Hochstein

  I've got Django 1.0.2 installed on Ubuntu 9.04. I'd like to upgrade Django, because I have an app that needs Django 1.1 or greater. I tried using pip to do the upgrade, but got the following: $ sudo pip install Django==1.1 Downloading/unpacking Django==1.1 Downloading Django-1.1.tar.gz (5.6Mb): 5.6Mb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package Django Installing collected packages: Django Found existing installation: Django 1.0.2-final Not uninstalling Django at /var/lib/python-support/python2.6, outside environment /usr Running setup.py install for Django changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/django-admin.py from 644 to 755 changing mode of /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py to 755 Successfully installed Django It seems like it worked, but it refuses to remove the original Django 1.02, and sure enough: $ pip freeze | grep -i django Django==1.0.2-final django-debug-toolbar==0.8.3 django-sphinx==2.2.3 $ /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py --version 1.0.2 final The problem, apparently, is that pip won't uninstall files outside of /usr. I'd like to remove the existing Django files manually, but I have no idea how to do that, because I'm unfamiliar with how Python packages are laid out in Ubuntu. It looks pretty complicated. The site-packages directory is: $ python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()" /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages However, that's not where the django files live: $ ls -ld /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/[Dd]jango* ls: cannot access /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/[Dd]jango*: No such file or directory There's a /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/django directory, and the __init__.py file in that directory points to /usr/share/python-support/python-django/django/__init__.py. Clearly, pip is able to figure out where the files live. Is there any way to retrieve the list of files associated with the django package so I can just delete them manually?

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• why are read only form fields in django a bad idea?

  - by jamida

  I've been looking for a way to create a read-only form field and every article I've found on the subject comes with a statement that "this is a bad idea". Now for an individual form, I can understand that there are other ways to solve the problem, but using a read only form field in a modelformset seems like a completely natural idea. Consider a teacher grade book application where the teacher would like to be able to enter all the students' (note the plural students) grades with a single SUBMIT. A modelformset could iterate over all the student-grades in such a way that the student name is read-only and the grade is the editable field. I like the power and convenience of the error checking and error reporting you get with a modelformset but leaving the student name editable in such a formset is crazy. Since the expert django consensus is that read-only form fields are a bad idea, I was wondering what the standard django best practice is for the example student-grade example above?

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• Using {% url ??? %} in django templates

  - by user563247

  I have looked a lot on google for answers of how to use the 'url' tag in templates only to find many responses saying 'You just insert it into your template and point it at the view you want the url for'. Well no joy for me :( I have tried every permutation possible and have resorted to posting here as a last resort. So here it is. My urls.py looks like this: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * from login.views import * from mainapp.views import * import settings # Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin: from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() urlpatterns = patterns('', # Example: # (r'^weclaim/', include('weclaim.foo.urls')), (r'^login/', login_view), (r'^logout/', logout_view), ('^$', main_view), # Uncomment the admin/doc line below and add 'django.contrib.admindocs' # to INSTALLED_APPS to enable admin documentation: # (r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')), # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin: (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), #(r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': '/home/arthur/Software/django/weclaim/templates/static'}), (r'^static/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), ) My 'views.py' in my 'login' directory looks like: from django.shortcuts import render_to_response, redirect from django.template import RequestContext from django.contrib import auth def login_view(request): if request.method == 'POST': uname = request.POST.get('username', '') psword = request.POST.get('password', '') user = auth.authenticate(username=uname, password=psword) # if the user logs in and is active if user is not None and user.is_active: auth.login(request, user) return render_to_response('main/main.html', {}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) #return redirect(main_view) else: return render_to_response('loginpage.html', {'box_width': '402', 'login_failed': '1',}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) else: return render_to_response('loginpage.html', {'box_width': '400',}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) def logout_view(request): auth.logout(request) return render_to_response('loginpage.html', {'box_width': '402', 'logged_out': '1',}, context_instance=RequestContext(request)) and finally the main.html to which the login_view points looks like: <html> <body> test! <a href="{% url logout_view %}">logout</a> </body> </html> So why do I get 'NoReverseMatch' every time? *(on a slightly different note I had to use 'context_instance=RequestContext(request)' at the end of all my render-to-response's because otherwise it would not recognise {{ MEDIA_URL }} in my templates and I couldn't reference any css or js files. I'm not to sure why this is. Doesn't seem right to me)*

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• *UPDATED* help with django and accented characters?

  - by Asinox

  Hi guys, i have a problem with my accented characters, Django admin save my data without encoding to something like "&aacute;" Example: if im trying a word like " Canción ", i would like to save in this way: Canci&oacute;n, and not Canción. im usign Sociable app: {% load sociable_tags %} {% get_sociable Facebook TwitThis Google MySpace del.icio.us YahooBuzz Live as sociable_links with url=object.get_absolute_url title=object.titulo %} {% for link in sociable_links %} <a href="{{ link.link }}"><img alt="{{ link.site }}" title="{{ link.site }}" src="{{ link.image }}" /></a> {% endfor %} But im getting error if my object.titulo (title of the article) have a accented word. aught KeyError while rendering: u'\xfa' Any idea ? i had in my SETTING: DEFAULT_CHARSET = 'utf-8' i had in my mysql database: utf8_general_ci COMPLETED ERROR: Traceback: File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 100. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\views\generic\date_based.py" in object_detail 366. response = HttpResponse(t.render(c), mimetype=mimetype) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in render 173. return self._render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in _render 167. return self.nodelist.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in render 796. bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 72. result = node.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 125. return compiled_parent._render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in _render 167. return self.nodelist.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in render 796. bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 72. result = node.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\loader_tags.py" in render 62. result = block.nodelist.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\__init__.py" in render 796. bits.append(self.render_node(node, context)) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\template\debug.py" in render_node 72. result = node.render(context) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\sociable\templatetags\sociable_tags.py" in render 37. 'link': sociable.genlink(site, **self.values), File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\site-packages\sociable\sociable.py" in genlink 20. values['title'] = quote_plus(kwargs['title']) File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\urllib.py" in quote_plus 1228. s = quote(s, safe + ' ') File "C:\wamp\bin\Python26\lib\urllib.py" in quote 1222. res = map(safe_map.__getitem__, s) Exception Type: TemplateSyntaxError at /noticia/2010/jun/10/matan-domingo-paquete-en-la-avenida-san-vicente-de-paul/ Exception Value: Caught KeyError while rendering: u'\xfa' thanks, sorry with my English

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• Customizing Django form widgets? - Django

  - by RadiantHex

  Hi folks, I'm having a little problem here! I have discovered the following as being the globally accepted method for customizing Django admin field. from django import forms from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe class AdminImageWidget(forms.FileInput): """ A ImageField Widget for admin that shows a thumbnail. """ def __init__(self, attrs={}): super(AdminImageWidget, self).__init__(attrs) def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): output = [] if value and hasattr(value, "url"): output.append(('<a target="_blank" href="%s">' '<img src="%s" style="height: 28px;" /></a> ' % (value.url, value.url))) output.append(super(AdminImageWidget, self).render(name, value, attrs)) return mark_safe(u''.join(output)) I need to have access to other field of the model in order to decide how to display the field! For example: If I am keeping track of a value, let us call it "sales". If I wish to customize how sales is displayed depending on another field, let us call it "conversion rate". I have no obvious way of accessing the conversion rate field when overriding the sales widget! Any ideas to work around this would be highly appreciated! Thanks :)

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• Django not recognizing django admin urls

  - by colorfulgrayscale

  I just registered my models my models with django admin. I navigate to the django admin at /admin. I log in sucessfully and I can see all my models. great so far. But now if I try to click one of the links, for Ex: 'users', django gives me a 404 saying The current URL, admin/auth/user/, didn't match any of these. Its really weird because in my urls.py I have it mapped correctly (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), I have all the required middleware enabled and have these in my installed apps 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.admin', anyone have any idea? Thanks.

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• Return template as string - Django

  - by Ninefingers

  Hi All, I'm still not sure this is the correct way to go about this, maybe not, but I'll ask anyway. I'd like to re-write wordpress (justification: because I can) albeit more simply myself in Django and I'm looking to be able to configure elements in different ways on the page. So for example I might have: Blog models A site update message model A latest comments model. Now, for each page on the site I want the user to be able to choose the order of and any items that go on it. In my thought process, this would work something like: class Page(models.Model) Slug = models.CharField(max_length=100) class PageItem(models.Model) Page = models.ForeignKey(Page) ItemType = models.CharField(max_length=100) InstanceNum = models.IntegerField() # all models have primary keys. Then, ideally, my template would loop through all the PageItems in a page which is easy enough to do. But what if my page item is a site update as opposed to a blog post? Basically, I am thinking I'd like to pull different item types back in different orders and display them using the appropriate templates. Now, I thought one way to do this would be to, in views.py, to loop through all of the objects and call the appropriate view function, return a bit of html as a string and then pipe that into the resultant template. My question is - is this the best way to go about doing things? If so, how do I do it? If not, which way should I be going? I'm pretty new to Django so I'm still learning what it can and can't do, so please bear with me. I've checked SO for dupes and don't think this has been asked before...

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• Editing Django's admin index <div id='module'> tag

  - by zen

  I am new to the Django framework. On Django's admin index page I'd like to get rid of the "s" at the end of my model names. Example: <div class="module"> <table summary="Models available in the my application."> <caption><a href="" class="section">My application</a></caption> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="model/">Model**s**</a></th> <td><a href="model/add/" class="addlink">Add</a></td> <td><a href="model/" class="changelink">Change</a></td> </tr> </table> </div> I know of a way to do this but I am really looking for the file I should edit. Where is it and what exactly should I do? I can't seem to pinpoint where it is coming from.

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• Django automatically compress Model Field on save() and decompress when field is accessed

  - by Brian M. Hunt

  Given a Django model likeso: from django.db import models class MyModel(models.Model): textfield = models.TextField() How can one automatically compress textfield (e.g. with zlib) on save() and decompress it when the property textfield is accessed (i.e. not on load), with a workflow like this: m = MyModel() textfield = "Hello, world, how are you?" m.save() # compress textfield on save m.textfield # no decompression id = m.id() m = MyModel.get(pk=id) # textfield still compressed m.textfield # textfield decompressed I'd be inclined to think that you would overload MyModel.save, but I don't know the pattern for in-place modification of the element when saving. I also don't know the best way in Django to decompress when the field when it's accessed (overload __getattr__?). Or would a better way to do this be to have a custom field type? I'm certain I've seen an example of almost exactly this, but alas I've not been able to find it recently. Thank you for reading – and for any input you may be able to provide.

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• Proper way to add record to many to many relationship in Django

  - by blcArmadillo

  First off, I'm planning on running my project on google app engine so I'm using djangoappengine which as far as I know doesn't support django's ManyToManyField type. Because of this I've setup my models like this: from django.db import models from django.contrib.auth.models import User class Group(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=200) class UserGroup(models.Model): user = models.ForeignKey(User) group = models.ForeignKey(Group) On a page I have a form field where people can enter a group name. I want the results from this form field to create a UserGroup object for the user - group combination and if the group doesn't yet exist create a new Group object. At first I started putting this logic in the UserGroup class with a add_group method but quickly realized that it doesn't really make sense to put this in the UserGroup class. What would the proper way of doing this be? I saw some stuff about model managers. Is this what those are for?

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• Django App for Academic Journal?

  - by stapler

  I'm looking a Django app I'm looking for an app that that allows for management and integration of footnotes for articles just wondering if anyone had seen something around...

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• Real Excel Templates I

  - by Tim Dexter

  As promised, I'm starting to document the new Excel templates that I teased you all with a few weeks back. Leslie is buried in 11g documentation and will not get to officially documenting the templates for a while. I'll do my best to be professional and not ramble on about this and that, although the weather here has finally turned and its 'scorchio' here in Colorado today. Maybe our stand of Aspen will finally come into leaf ... but I digress. Preamble These templates are not actually that new, I helped in a small way to develop them a few years back with Excel 'meistress' Shirley for a company that was trying to use the Report Manager(RR) Excel FSG outputs under EBS 12. The functionality they needed was just not there in the RR FSG templates, the templates are actually XSL that is created from the the RR Excel template builder and fed to BIP for processing. Think of Excel from our RTF templates and you'll be there ie not really Excel but HTML masquerading as Excel. Although still under controlled release in EBS they have now made their way to the standlone release and are willing to share their Excel goodness. You get everything you have with hte Excel Analyzer Excel templates plus so much more. Therein lies a question, what will happen to the Analyzer templates? My understanding is that both will come together into a single Excel template format some time in the post-11g release world. The new XLSX format for Exce 2007/10 is also in the mix too so watch this space. What more do these templates offer? Well, you can structure data in the Excel output. Similar to RTF templates you can create sheets of data that have master-detail n relationships. Although the analyzer templates can do this, you have to get into macros whereas BIP will do this all for you. You can also use native XSL functions in your data to manipulate it prior to rendering. BP functions are not currently supported. The most impressive, for me at least, is the sheet 'bursting'. You can split your hierarchical data across multiple sheets and dynamically name those sheets. Finally, you of course, still get all the native Excel functionality. Pre-reqs You must be on 10.1.3.4.1 plus the latest rollup patch, 9546699. You can patch upa BIP instance running with OBIEE, no problem You need Excel 2000 or above to build the templates Some patience - there is no Excel template builder for these new templates. So its all going to have to be done by hand. Its not that tough but can get a little 'fiddly'. You can not test the template from Excel , it has to be deployed and then run. Limitations The new templates are definitely superior to the Analyzer templates but there are a few limitations. Re-grouping is not supported. You can only follow a data hierarchy not bend it to your will unless you want to get into macros. No support for BIP functions. The templates support native XSL functions only. No template builder Getting Started The templates make the use of named cells and groups of cells to allow BIP to find the insertion point for data points. It also uses a hidden sheet to store calculation mappings from named cells to XML data elements. To start with, in the great BIP tradition, we need some sample XML data. Becasue I wanted to show the master-detail output we need some hierarchical data. If you have not yet gotten into the data templates, now is a good time, I wrote a post a while back starting from the simple to more complex. They generate ideal data sets for these templates. Im working with the following data set: <EMPLOYEES> <LIST_G_DEPT> <G_DEPT> <DEPARTMENT_ID>10</DEPARTMENT_ID> <DEPARTMENT_NAME>Administration</DEPARTMENT_NAME> <LIST_G_EMP> <G_EMP> <EMPLOYEE_ID>200</EMPLOYEE_ID> <EMP_NAME>Jennifer Whalen</EMP_NAME> <EMAIL>JWHALEN</EMAIL> <PHONE_NUMBER>515.123.4444</PHONE_NUMBER> <HIRE_DATE>1987-09-17T00:00:00.000-06:00</HIRE_DATE> <SALARY>4400</SALARY> </G_EMP> </LIST_G_EMP> <TOTAL_EMPS>1</TOTAL_EMPS> <TOTAL_SALARY>4400</TOTAL_SALARY> <AVG_SALARY>4400</AVG_SALARY> <MAX_SALARY>4400</MAX_SALARY> <MIN_SALARY>4400</MIN_SALARY> </G_DEPT> ... <LIST_G_DEPT> <EMPLOYEES> Simple enough to follow and bread and butter stuff for an RTF template. Building the Template For an Excel template we need to start by thinking about how we want to render the data. Come up with a sample output in Excel. Its all dummy data, nothing marked up yet with one row of data for each level. I have the department name and then a repeating row for the employees. You can apply Excel formatting to the layout. The total is going to be derived from a data element. We'll get to Excel functions later. Marking Up Cells Next we need to start marking up the cells with custom names to map them to data elements. The cell names need to follow a specific format: For data grouping, XDO_GROUP_?group_name? For data elements, XDO_?element_name? Notice the question mark delimter, the group_name and element_name are case sensitive. The next step is to find how to name cells; the easiest method is to highlight the cell and then type in the name. You can also find the Name Manager dialog. I use 2007 and its available on the ribbon under the Formulas section Go thorugh the process of naming all the cells for the element values you have. Using my data set from above.You should end up with something like this in your 'Name Manager' dialog. You can update any mistakes you might have made through this dialog. Creating Groups In the image above you can see there are a couple of named group cells. To create these its a simple case of highlighting the cells that make up the group and then naming them. For the EMP group, highlight the employee row and then type in the name, XDO_GROUP?G_EMP? Notice the 10,000 total is outside of the G_EMP group. Its actually named, XDO_?TOTAL_SALARY?, a query calculated value. For the department group, we need to include the department name cell and the sub EMP grouping and name it, XDO_GROUP?G_DEPT? Notice, the 10,000 total is included in the G_DEPT group. This will ensure it repeats at the department level. Lastly, we do need to include a special sheet in the workbook. We will not have anything meaningful in there for now, but it needs to be present. Create a new sheet and name it XDO_METADATA. The name is important as the BIP rendering engine will looking for it. For our current example we do not need anything other than the required stuff in our XDO_METADATA sheet but, it must be present. Easy enough to hide it. Here's what I have: The only cell that is important is the 'Data Constraints:' cell. The rest is optional. To save curious users getting distracted, hide the metadata sheet. Deploying & Running Templates We should now have a usable Excel template. Loading it into a report is easy enough using the browser UI, just like an RTF template. Set the template type to Excel. You will now be able to run the report and hopefully get something like this. You will not get the red highlighting, thats just some conditional formatting I added to the template using Excel functionality. Your dates are probably going to look raw too. I got around this for now using an Excel function on the cell: =--REPLACE(SUBSTITUTE(E8,"T"," "),LEN(E8)-6,6,"") Google to the rescue on that one. Try some other stuff out. To avoid constantly loading the template through the UI. If you have BIP running locally or you can access the reports repository, once you have loaded the template the first time. Just save the template directly into the report folder. I have put together a sample report using a sample data set, available here. Just drop the xml data file, EmpbyDeptExcelData.xml into 'demo files' folder and you should be good to go. Thats the basics, next we'll start using some XSL functions in the template and move onto the 'bursting' across sheets.

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