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my ranges are short enough that i could brute-force iterate over every day in the range and test, but that seems silly.

nah... use the weekday to skip to the next tuesday, and then add timedelta(days=7)

yeah, good enough. thanks

so if d.weekday() == 2 you're on a Tuesday...

and some simple math can tell you how many days to skip to align

anth_x: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2003981/143280

FunkyBob: until someone decides that they want it on the Xth every month

FunkyBob: where X > 28 :P

when using models.FileField, how do I turn a path into a file object. Or rather, when I have a file path, how do I save a models.FileField() properly?

rrule

aidan's project uses a rrule lib

datakid: a full filesystem path, or a path relative to the storage engine root?

SmileyChris, fill file system

s/fill/full

datakid: typically you don't... it's abstracted throug hthe storage engine

why do you want to?

I hae an object class that will have a PDF attached to it. I am importing the first bunch of data, and I have the filepath

datakid: then you save it inside the engine and set the field to the return value (a File)

ah, well

"object class that will have a PDF attached to it" = has a models.FileField()

for imports and updates... you can just assign the path to hte field

datakid: you can just calculate the relative path and set it to that

FunkyBob, really?

datakid: then just put them in the right place

make sure, though, to trim the path to relative to the storage engine's root [MEDIA_ROOT by default]

I've done it in the past

if the files are already in the right place

FunkyBob, SmileyChris ok. And the file will then be available to the user through the template

ok, thanks

it's the field's purest form really (FileField is really just a fancy shmancy charfield)

SmileyChris, that's the info I was looking for, thanks. Yep, I'll do that. Tx all

Anyone know a way to add dividers between nodes when building menus in CMS using menus.base.NavigationNode?

mfcovington: you mean django-cms ?

Yes, sorry.

I"m getting the error "utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x95 in position 792: invalid start byte" but I have no idea what that means

the traceback doesn't make any sense. The error seems to be in the save() method, but it's in utf_8.pyc that hte problem happens

no indication of which field might be causing the error

how would I capture which field was causing the error?

datakid:it means you've got imporperly encoded data

dpaste the traceback

FunkyBob, http://dpaste.com/39JXDFF

it's doesn't tell which field has the wrongly encoded data? And from what I can see all fields have the right encoding

so it looks like Django is trying to get a copy of the last executed query

have you done something that means you're not using utf-8 encoding to your PGH?

PGH?

I'm using py 2.7 but otherwise, I don' tthink so

at one point I use strptime but that is string into date

PG

postgres

i will check pg now

if you didn't change the config, then it's unlikely

no, I didn't change anything

I just created the user, pw and then the db,

how could I tell what the encoding was on the db/table cols?

since you're getting the traceback in the browser, yuo should be able to open it up and see the values it's working with

it's in ipython, not browser - I'm running an import script

gah

some of my dates are strings

of course

sorry

ffs

np

but I don't see that causing that error

How can I pass variables from my template to my view functions as a parameter, I’ve tried GET parameters without luck and I don’t want to use a form

hvyk: You may use patterns in the url to pass them.