#django

I'm writing a custom command in my django app. I intend to have the application either take text files as commandline arguments -or- as stdin. Is there a clean way to do this?

yeah ...this is exactly what I need. God I love django

so nice to not write php anymore

hydraidm801: Well, the birthday stuff I wrote up may be useful then.

there is also __range for dates

Or if I pipe, say, the output of `cat file` to my django custom command, will it end up as an argument automatically?

kklimonda: Yes, but for anniversary calculations that's not quite so useful. :)

wow thanks a bunch schinckel

FunkyBob: perhaps it is, yet I still don't understand

amaier: You'll probably need to read stdin in that case.

amaier: basic unix says "no"

Gotcha. Sounds good.

StackedInLine functionality inside ModelAdmin for same model is driving something like

schinckel: true, depends on what you need

<class 'acb_lines.admin.ChoiceInLine'>: (admin.E202) 'acb_lines.Choice' has no ForeignKey to 'acb_lines.Choice'.

amaier: You could use an argument of '-' to specify 'read from stdin'

Because it can't reference to itself

schinckel: good idea.

hullo, is this the right place to ask for help ? i'm trying to go through the official tutorial a second time while building a user login app for practice, but i've hit a wall with the urls.py :(

Brachamul: yep, this is the place :) Explain your problem

Well, i created a model called "Account", instead of the "Polls" in the tutorial. My app is called "login". I'm trying to create a user profile page, at url "/u/Username". I don't know how to reference the Account username from the url pattern. I've tried : url(r'^(?P<login_name>\d+)/$',...), but that does not work :p

FunkyBob: I think I'll give up, it really drove me nuts and can't seem to find the tick to it

because \d denotes decimal characters only

Brachamul: try \w instead

I was trying to find documentation on what all of those strange symbols meant :o

Thanks, will try

I'm having trouble finding a python function to give me the 4 closest integers around a number x, with a maximum for x. So if my max for X is 10, then it would return 6,7,8,9. if max is >12, then it'll return 8,9,11,12. Anyone know what thats called?

^ X = 10

Brachamul: here you go: http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html

thanks !

TaiSHi: there's no trick...

or maybe its something i have to write on my own

follow the documentatin... and if you want to dynamically add more forms, you need javascript to inject the new markup

FunkyBob: i think he expects his personal pet pony to be in admin already with some switch to turn it on

HowardwLo: I wouldn't expect to find a single Python function to do that, no.

mattmcc: ah, so I'm looking for a unicorn

FunkyBob: just as InLine models do, I thought there would be a builtin functionality for it

mattmcc: is there a simple way to write that?

Quick question for you guys.. about Class Based Views.. specifically a ListView. The question is, when my view is being processes, is that an INSTANCE of my view class that is constructed by django (and therefore safe for me to put request-specific data into instance variables), or is it the CLASS object that I am working with? Thanks.

TaiSHi: there is for supporting repeated forms... there isn't for client-side javascript

hmm... anyone know why i'd be getting an undefined field django_ct error in haystack when i do SearchQuerySet().all() ? haystack docs say django_ct is a reserved field name for internal use... im not defining an explicit django_ct field anywhere and i assume im not supposed to... ?

a_little_birdie: instance variables are ok

a_little_birdie: yes, it's a new instance created by the view function each call

Ok great, thanks! Makes things a lot easier

a_little_birdie: the view function is the one returned by the view factory "as_view"

I have a ListView which also implements a form, and there's some queryset magic too.. and its all working beautifully, but I want to stash some things so I don't have to for example do the same query twice.

FunkyBob: since there will be no 'fixed' number of rows, I think I'd better avoid growing more nervous and screw it lol :P

a_little_birdie: stash them on self

TaiSHi: you know it's possible, because you've seen it in admin.

and I'm quite sure the formset docs treat it somewhat

Going to read all formset doc now while I eat

so you were all ready to give up.... before you'd even bothered to read the docs?

sometimes wonder why I bother helping people...

LOL well you've saved me a bunch of grief several times now, so THANKS Bob.

because of the smiles?

:)

FunkyBob: I was reading formsets, I have it open since you gave it to me

but reading the examples (and -trying- to apply them) drove me nuts

I am rather jumpy today

if there is something that sticked to me from you FunkyBob is reading docs, I tended to avoid them a bit :P

Continued from my last question, If I write [ url(r'^(?P<account_name>\w+)/$', ], how do I tell django what I mean by "account_name"? What i mean is the "name" column from my "Account" model. Right now i'm getting an AttributeError saying I need an object pk or a slug.

Brachamul: well, that's in your view

Brachamul: oh, you're using a DetailView ?

yes

should i not ?

well, you should mention it

[ url(r'^(?P<account_name>\w+)/$', views.ProfileView.as_view(), name='profile'), ]

you can control where the DetailField looks for its lookup field and what field on the model it looks for

the defautls are just defaults

hmmm, okay !

i'll have a look

thanks :)

So i should say [ slug_field = name ] then ?

slug_field = 'name' and slug_url_kwarg='account_name'

HowardwLo: lambda x, m: range(min(x, m+1)-4, min(x, m+1))[min(-2, m-x-4):] + range(x+1, m+1)[:2]

SmileyChris: ouch!

:D

christ!