#django

i am a newb too, so don't take my method as gospel

We're going to have to change that expression.

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litewait: or you could just use the built-in generic TemplateView, which is built to do exactly what you're wanting to do.

To some (me), something in the gospel is something to not be believed

brimpa: its a bundle with apache, databases, django, python for Windows, otherwise setting everything up was annoying. I suppose I could hop on a linux VM and restart there...

tbaxter: example of shall I rtfm

from django.conf.urls import patterns

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = patterns('',

(r'^about/', TemplateView.as_view(template_name="about.html")),

)

from the django site, neat, wasn't aware of this

Hi I am trying to set up a postgresql database and I installed postgresql and psycopg2 and created a user and database, but am not sure what to put under Name in settings.py

What's the preferred way of dealing with substantially different settings.py files for various development machines and production using the same git repo?

GoClick: use the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE env variable

you can check the approach used in "two scoops of django"

they explain it pretty well

Jax: okay

basiicaly i just have something like: settings/base.py then something like settings/dev_jax.py which does an import * from base.py then you just add your overrides in that file. in my virtualenv bin/postactivate i just do something like export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=settings.dev_jax

ecksile: in my opinion, the generics are the first thing people should learn. Not only are they tremendously helpful on their own but they're a good way to ease into more advanced views.

Well 2 scoops was already on my Amazon wishlist so I might as well just pick it up

GoClick: sure, support your local geeks ;)

If someone wanted a list view with objects from multiple models that could be paginated using Django's pagination, what would be the best way to do this? (Right now I'm chaining them in get_context_data, but there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to paginate this.)

is there a way to customize the admin to show a intermediate confirmation page when saving a model? for example, i want to warn non-technical users of the admin to be careful when changing the 'slug' for an Article, as that might break links

minim: I generally use itertools chain to chain the QS from the different models, then pass that to a ListView

I'm also using itertools.chain with QuerySets for a similar situation.

minim: but I dont think you want to do it in context_data. I think you want get_queryset

dlam: I put slug in a hidden fieldset. If they're not smart enough to open it, they're not smart enough to edit slug.

tbaxer: Was just about to ask. I'll make that change. Thank you for the information. (And thank jfkdaddy for confirming this is a good way to do it.)

How do people deal with providing test/development data that can't live in fixtures such as images? Just commit a tiny "media" or "static" directory into version control?

Nelluk: deploying on digitalocean turned out painless ;)

good to know

i assume if i have a domain set up then i will just follow that tutorial

I don't know too much about networking, so I have a question about my project. I want to demonstrate it to someone else (not on my local network). Is there any way to do this without hosting my project on something like aws or heroku? I.e. can I just run the webserver like I normally do to test at localhost in some way which will allow anyone in the world to connect to the server on my own pc?

Nelluk: Yeah, but I wonder for django projects what are advantages over pythonanywhere

I'm trying to detect the presence of csv_submit in the following request.POST object

<QueryDict: {u'end_date': [u'2013-09-30'], u'page': [u''], u'csv-submit': [u''], u'csrfmiddlewaretoken': [u'can8GlIp4uX91XoyrpqM2xvBqDRJyGmI'], u'start_date': [u'2013-09-01'], u'team_or_user_dropdown': [u'2']}>

if 'csv_submit' in request.POST seems to be failing

oh snap!

underscores!

scientist1642: wel the free pythonanywhere accounts dont have SSH, cant use source control, limited libraries, etc.

I know a object pk for a model , how do i get the next object?

Any AWS Elastic Beanstalk users here?

wenzhixue: define "next". Next by ID? Next by date? Are they categorized?

or do you mean getting the other columns from the object once you've identified it by key?

tbaxter : next by id

tbaxter: but you can't do obj.pk +1 , because the next object maybe delated, so the next id could be obj.pk+ n

is there a way with django and postgres to get more informative error messages than "InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block"

streblo: You should find the real error earlier in the log

streblo why don't you pull out all the records after the one whose id you know (or set a limit of like 10 after) and stick them in a list then just iterate over the list?

forcer: that is not correct, there are no other messages in the log or traceback that inform *what* caused the transaction to abort

ecksile: because that's tedious

streblo: That error ("transaction is aborted...") means that there was an SQL-level error, so Postgres will deny any further SQL statements until the next ROLLBACK. There has to have been a prior error.

hey, me again :'( total newbie... I have two users based on django,contrib.auth.models.User. Customers and shop owners. My problem is I want to confirm the registration of shop owners.

Perhaps I can do it with is_active field but I also would like to any related model (via foreign key) should not be activated as well