#django

Strange django question, I am running django with pycharm, when I set Template_debug = True and run the debug it says please set Template_debug = True template path is not available. Has anyone run into this before>

Hi guys, quick question. I'm using a formview for login. I'd like to change the success_url depending on an attribute of the just-logged-in user

I'm trying to do it on the get_success_url method but it does not work

I'm guessing it is getting executed before the actual login perhaps

k forget it, I had mismatched the case

cnk: The best thing about Django (IMHO) is the form handling. It's a really sweet solution for validating user input.

schinckel: :)

I even use django forms for processing data from other systems, or through our API.

schinckel fair enough. I rarely do a full Restful API. Most of what i need is a javascript query interfact to some data

does anyone use PyReact? How do I configure it to also transform es6->es5?

hey everyone. I am having a really tough time right now getting request.data to come through to a serializer in 'django rest framework' using token auth. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the request to show the data inside the serializer. I can confirm that the message has the token and data with fiddler though

anyone have any ideas? Im pulling my hair out at this point

cnk: I even use forms in my WebSocket handlers.

Forms everywhere, man.

I am kind of digging them but it will be a while before I am that much of a fan

(on both sides: I use forms for url query params generation in the browser, too)

interest

interesting, why not use pastebin.com?

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hello, anyone here have any experience creating multiple, unrelated inlines in the admin?

eh alright

I have a noob question, i asked in ##learnpython but I don't think anyone is home. I think that settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL contains a username property?

I ask because I am doing a tutorial and the author doesn't really explain where username comes from http://cryptb.in/JZhgK6#8230c57413216cf1291b253...

dtzitz: settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL is a string reference to a Django model class

it is resolved to the actual class by the OneToOneField, and that class has a `username` field

ahh

tchalla: You'll probably have better luck writing your own view and template

the setting allows you to swap in a custom model class, that´s why it´s a string reference

tchalla: It is often far simpler to do that.

dtzitz@ what knbk said. if you're extending from either AbstractBaseUser or AbstractUser, it will contain the 'username'. If you're not looking to change the Auth model, then AbstractUser is the way to go

schinckel: thanks

yea I am not smart enough to start messing with the auth stuff

better finish the tutorial first ;)

Hey #django

yea, so I am going to finish the tutorial and then I had the idea to just try to build something that has worked for me in the past with javascript stuff but I sort of failed with .net

Have a general django question -- when I acquire apps from elsewhere, should I install them to my site-packages directory and make my own app to generate views/models/etc.

you guys have any opinions on getting a book vs just trying to build something

or should I put them directly into my django project directory

Geet: you would generally install third-party apps to your site-packages directory

knbk: then generate my own models/views to use those apps?

dtzitz: try the docs. there are nice examples there

dtzitz: I would just start building and look up the things you encounter in the docs

dtzitz: I've had luck just building after finishing the tutorial. There is so much information for Django out there on the web. I don't know that you'd need a book

awesome

Geet: depends on what the app does. If you need models/views to use it, sure, roll your own

I was banging my head against the wall trying to just build something after the tutorial using model first EF in .net

Geet: Make sure you are using a virtualenv for your project, and install them there using pip

Geet: If you're sure the app is reusable, sure place it in site-packages

glad to hear django might not be as hard

Geet: You'll then be able to use `pip freeze` to see what versions of packages you have installed.

I have not been using Virtualenv for anything... is it that necessary?

And would I have to start over to use it now?

Not necessary, but very, very useful.

Not at ally.

all.

whoever added the blog post about the security update to the motd, thank you!

It just builds a sandbox for this project, allowing you to not worry about polluting your global python site-packages.

Which means you can do things like have different versions of different packages per-project.

ah, I see

Good to know

Geet: I´ve never seen anyone recommend to not use virtualenv. It´s an awesome tool, used by pretty much everyone

Geet: I virtualenv all the things now: use pipsi for installing python-package-commands.

If I start a virtualenv now, would I need to reinstall the packages that are in my other python path?

or are those paths added to virtualenv's path?

By default virtualenv does not have access to global site-packages now, but it's easy to see what is installed globally, put it into a requirements.txt and then install from there.

Alternatively, you can pip install -e <path> if it's a local git/hg checkout of a package (that you are still working on, for instance).

But run pip freeze to see what is installed, and stick this in a requirements.txt in your project (and then remove the bits you don't need).

the requirements.txt will tell the virtualenv to pull global packages?

or will ensure I download what I need?

Geet: pip install -r requirements.txt will install everything from that file (and any cascading dependencies)

It's pretty old, but still relevant (I think)

Okay, thanks. So for the last app I was working on I installed it per instructions, which put it in my site-packages... I also put it in my Django directory, and then made another app that called its classes/methods.

I'll often not have the virtualenv as the project directory now.

I see that when I do "haystack.__path__" i'm using the one in my Django project directory. If I delete it, will having 'haystack' in Installed_apps pull it from site-packages?

Python really doesn't care _where_ a package is installed: as long as it's on the PYTHONPATH it's all good.

anyone know if you can configure the placemnt of [source] links when using :autoclass: with sphinx ?

Geet: python -c "import sys; print sys.path"

or print(...) if you are python3-ing

interesting

my project idrectory is on there, but also everything else... so it doesn't matter where I put it

It really only matters if there are multiple matches on a package: then the first source in the list containing that package is used.

so having an app listed in my settings.py, that app just needs to be somewhere on the path?

I thought it had to be in the local directory... this is great to know

Yep. It's potentially worth putting your apps in a directory.

if I'm going to be editing them, I'm assuming?

or if I want to deploy an all-in-one type of package?

It all depends on how you want to deploy.

so I cannot do "python manage.py startapp pip" if I wanted to, since this is on the path, for example

you inadvertently answered a lot of my questions... I thought everything needed to be a little more localized

I was confused when it was having me 'pip install' a django package