#django

cos thats something I'll need to know about very soon

dmishe: Yeah, HttpResponseRedirect only supports http[s] and ftp.

Is there any way to detect if there was a 404 raised before running a Middleware?

mattmcc thanks, I found the code for it, I can subclass and override that

I basicly want to halt a custom middleware if there was a 404 raised before it

like a URL was not found

jpadilla: Assuming you're past process_view, you've got a response object that you can check the status code of.

mattmcc: I'm using process_request

let me try that

Then you don't know if a 404 will result yet.

mattmcc: is there anyway to check if request.path exists in urls.py?

It's not that simple, a view may raise a 404. You really can't predetermine the response type until the view's had a chance to run.

jpadilla: resolve() method

jpadilla: in django.core.urlresovers

i tried disabling the csrf middleware and it's still not working...

Hey everyone. I know that in Python builtin arrays are rarely used in favor of lists. What's the equivalent construct for instances of a Django model?

I searched the Django docs but could not seem to find this. Perhaps I was searching for the wrong thing?

CaptChaos: perhaps you should explain what you want to use it for?

lists are a mutable, ordered sequence... tuples are immutable ordered sequences

CaptChaos: when you say 'array'... what sort of structure do you mean?

to me it's an ordered sequence of homogenous typed values... but in PHP land it's an ordered mapping

I am reading in content from a CSV file that I want to store in a model I have created. I have the code technically working, but the overhead from constant writing the DB is causing a problem when I have ~100,000 records in a CSV. Instead, I want to store approximately 100-500 in memory (I would normally do this in a list) and then write the contents to the models in less frequent chunks.

from my own experience...

I would use the csv.DictReader, pass its dicts into a ModelForm, and use a transaction to commit every few hundred records

then you get nice, clean type conversion and validation... and models constructed for you...

thanks FunkyBob, I'll start looking into that. I wrote the code without thinking in advance and since I already have the parsing and saving done row by row I was looking for a lazy way to get it done. It's an intial setup step, not something that users will do frequently. My old C++ thinking had my going towards arrays but it's probably better the learn some more "Django-ish" ways of doing it. :)

CaptChaos this may also be useful to you: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/model...

CaptChaos: having done many bulk-import tools, that's what will get you the most results for the least work

yeah, there's that too...forgot about bulk_create because it's new

awesome guys. thanks

reading up now

hi

bradleyayers: !

so i am back in the country

huzzah!

since tuesday

i need a little help with localization/translation

StuckMojo: oi... interested in helping me with my other project? :)

tit for tat? sure ;)

heh

how do i deal with that proxy object?

not sure I can help much with l10n / i18n ... have never tried it

Hi all - I'm trying to use the messages framework with a function-based view on an external app (userena)

before the site got translated, that just printed the text label nicely

but the message isn't quite making it to the template

i'm pretty sure this is because it's set to use the lazy translation

afk... meeting

from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _

Hi, are there any apps available for django+salesforce integeration?

aha! got it

print unicode(Media.MEDIA_TYPE_CHOICES[0][1])

yay!

erk

Awesome, ask a question, wait 1 minute.. then leave. :D

does anyone have any suggestions on how best to use CreateView and UpdateView with the same template? They both default to <app>/<model>_form.html

?

unless the form contains some kind of 'url' parameter that points to the right endpoint?

just use action="" or ="."

only use '.' if you're strict about trailing /

oh. duh... yeah, that works. bad/good habit of always being explicity...

is there anything stored in the 'form' object that would tell me if it is a 'create' or 'update'?

instance