#django

In Mavericks you finally don't need Xcode for Command line tools

Frostig: perhaps not a solution to your particular problem, but I've found that building python this way ensures all the expected headers are where they should be, etc

josePhoenix: Alright. I may try it, or I just run my projects from my virtual machine

like I do with all my php projects anyway :P

I'm trying to do a self.stdout.write("{}".format(entry['title'])) within a management command, but I'm getting a `UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 25: ordinal not in range(128)` error

Frostig, you ever tried oursql instead of MySQL-python?

just a better weapper overall imo

wrapper*

Dev0n: does that wrapper work for mysql? *dumb-question*

Frostig: whatever works! Managing complexity with building/installation is a pain how-ever you try to do it

Frostig, it's a wrapper of libmysqlclient, so yea :)

josePhoenix: Yeah, I run my project through intellij for development purposes, so it seems easier to not only use the command line. But it's better to use it for learning puposes anyway.

Dev0n: Guess it's available from pip?

indeed it is

pip install oursql django-oursql

Do you need cython for django-oursql? And I get some other compile warnings now :/

Screw this, I'll just it from my vm

you don't frodopwns

Frosh,

omg

Frostig,

weird, it's not in pypy anymore

I get "ould not find any downloads that satisfy the requirement django-oursql"

you can always pip install git+git://github.com/dcramer/django-oursql@master Frostig

You'll need #egg=django-oursql, right?

Dev0n: Okay, cool. I didn't know that was possible, but I still get errors on the main wrapper

erm, @master should work schinckel

But nvm, need to go to bed so I can work tomorrow :) gn and thanks for the help!

np, nn

alternatively, you could check out postgres :P

hello

I'm having a (stupid) problem with staticfiles and could use some guidance where I should look next.

the templates in this app use "{{ STATIC_URL }}" but that value is empty unless DEBUG=True

when writing class based views, how do I new which class to use? For instance, there is Views and detailViews

dman777_alter: well, View is generic and DetailView is to display a single object

nkuttler: because of httpreqponse(), I always thought as bot returning a single object

*httpresponse

dman777_alter: you should probably start at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/class...

oh formfield_for_foreignkey

you make evil so easy

dman777_alter: my bad, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/ref/class...

nkuttler: ya, been studying that but i guess i'm kind of slow learning. for instance, with detailview "While this view is executing, self.object will contain the object that the view is operating upon.". what do they mean by self.object? everything is a object in python and each class will have it's own objects, etc.

dman777_alter: self.object is a property of self and contains the object the orm found, usually based on pk or slug

dman777_alter: so request -> orm -> returns object -> in self.object where self is an instance of DetailView

nkuttler: ah...i thought slug was a random name...not a reservered keyword. so, if i wanted to send a parameter from the url dispatcher to the class view...would i used detailview or is that only for orm objects?

dman777_alter: a DetailView is used to fetch an orm object

nkuttler: ok, thanks!

slug is not a keyword

DetailView, ListView, CreateView all work on orm objects

oh right, you can call your SlugField however you like

hi! I have an interesting problem -- I have many installations of the same project on different machines and one of them is exhibiting a problem when an add view for a ModelAdmin of a particular in the admin site does not show any inlines

the problem is that it still requires the management form instance on post

How would I do something like this from within python? <img src="{% static "project/images/logos/logo_draft1.png" %}"/>

sari11: have a look at hwo the static tag works... it's quite simple

sari11: You'll do something like that from within your template, not within python.

sari11: Except, the stuff in the string will probably not include your <project-name>

sari11: But yeah, read the documentation about it.

got it :) thanks a ton link = "<img src=\"/static/project/images/flags/flags/flat/16/" + filename + "\">";return mark_safe(link)

Eh, you probably don't want to hardcode your static URL.

sari11: Yeah, that's probably not a good idea.

See staticfiles.finders.find

ah :\ i can't seem to get any static stuff to work unless it's in appname/static/appname/

Well, that's the only place they're looked for by default.

You can also add directories to STATICFILES_DIRS.

I figured my own problem out: the app set ALLOWED_HOSTS and it was wrong

mattmcc: this is just testing/development, still bad to do so? will have to change everything on deployment machine anyhow

sari11: You'd be amazed how often "It's just for testing" becomes production code before anyone notices in time to fix it.

ahh

mornings... i'm calling my_form.save(commit=False) where form.is_valid() has already been called and is True but for some reason the data in my_form.cleaned_data isn't getting set on the new model instance which comes back from my_form.save(commit=False)

what am I missing?