#django

iGeni: Please provide code and __full__ traceback in a pastebin

persina: not really. Are you talking about wsgi.py?

tbaxter: httpd.conf

persina: I have about 20 conf files in my projects, an nginx one, a uwsgi one, a wsgi one, etc.

httpd.conf?

i dont have a trace yet, it happends in this form https://dpaste.de/bXBR

let me trigger a trace local

Sorry, I don’t think I have an httpd.conf file. maybe in my old apache setup, but i’d have to really really dig.

Sounds like a problem you should have automatically handled in settings.py

tbaxter: the file that tells wsgi where to look

tbaxter: where you define WSGIScriptAlias and the directory directives

sorry, I turned my back on apache awhile back.

as explained in the python apache deployment

Most python people did a while ago.

tbaxter: what is the alternative to mod_wsgi?

I’m partial to nginx+uwsgi, myself. Others like gunicorn. Others have other setups.

iGeni: Then wait till you have the traceback, your original statement doesn't give enough info to help you.

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Even when I DID use apache, though, I don’t recall setting any paths more than once.

tbaxter: yes, you set it once. But then you have to prepend the BASE_DIR to every path in your program.

“you have to prepend the BASE_DIR to every path in your program.” <== this is the part that makes not sense.

persina: Give us an example of the many paths in your program.

tbaxter: straight from the documentation "# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)"

joshuajonah: any file i/o operations

All i tend to use is MEDIA_ROOT, STATIC_ROOT, and template directory

thats three times I have to use a predefined variable, that's not out of hand.

persina: like joshuajonah said, show us where you’re having to use BASE_DIR

trace https://dpaste.de/PvCc

name_map = self._meta.init_name_map()

tbaxter: example : open(BASE_DIR + '.../.../.../progress.txt', 'w')

what the everloving hell is that

tbaxter: like I said, any io operations

persina, how often are you opening local files in your project?

joshuajonah: often. I'm logging stuff, reading files, writting files, etc.

I smell a mess.

here is my form with my MultiValueField - http://dpaste.com/20NEB1Z - it's working, but the labels I'm specifying with IntegerField aren't showing up. if anyone sees any obvious problems with the code let me know.

lol

why doesn't my mock override the views calls to get_filesize (only one I'm testing right now) https://dpaste.de/v1P6

I'm basically expecting that size = '13k' in the view

tbaxter: why?

the code where it occurs https://dpaste.de/7r77

You’re asking why I smell a mess?

tbaxter: yea, i have a solution. I'll just add the paths to settings.py so i only have to open(PROGRESS_FILE)

did something change in name_map = self._meta._name_map / name_map = self._meta.init_name_map() in 1.8.5

persina: because first, Django handles most IO operations for you, if you let it. ANd logging, too. Second, the way you’re doing that is horribly fragile and will never survive any filesystem change. Third, the existince of progress.txt looks like a wild perversion o the templating system.

persina: That sounds more sane

agreed

it says 'Options' object has no attribute 'init_name_map'

Or a wild perversion of an anyalytics system

\/auditing

iGeni: Well, go into the django codebase and see if that exists.

It is the best documentationa fter all.

tbaxter: I can just change the paths in settings.py in the case of a file system change. progress.txt is not a template, it is created and then displayed to the client

`nik`: I'm trying to figure this out for you. Just looking at django's code base to see where it creates the html for this field.

i guess i could make it a template...

persina: For what purpose is this written tot he file ssytem and shown to the user?

joshuajonah: its written, saved in a /progress directory and then shown to the user upon redirect

iGeni: You still haven't sent an actual traceback, you just copy and pasted the debug page.

persina: WHY?

Are you saving cookie recepies? Is this a hit list of vegans? whay?

joshuajonah: so the user can view the progress file which explains what happened in the computation

joshuajonah: it's also queried via ajax during the computation

Whatever, either way, this sounds like a TextField in the database.

joshuajonah: no access to a database

So you're using the filesystem as a half ass database.

I guess there's merit to that

joshuajonah: and anyways, i don't need a whole database for a tmp file that gets rewritten every time.

Except it's about 5345345343534 times faster than file i/o

If it's always rewritten, i would even use a cache

joshuajonah: the txt file has max 30 lines, efficiency isn't really a problem.

yay

joshuajonah: no point in caching 30 lines of txt..

joshuajonah: and the majority of the file is different upon each run

shit, you can do a progress bar with nothing more than an integer and some css

tbaxter: its a more detailed progress bar :P

Why do you not have a database? is this some sort of embedded system?

Can a template have multiple {% extends %} tags?

APXtvlKDVI: no, how would you even expectthat to work?

APXtvlKDVI: no but you can use {% includes %}

no. it sounds like you’re not using blocks well.

or that :)

Oh yeah, I can see why that wouldn't work. I'm trying to have a "sub-template" that fits into several templates' {% block %}{% endblock %} tags, but I'm not sure how to do that.

Like the inverse of the typical case where you have a base template and several child templates.

sub template usually means poor inheritance. You CAN use include, but usually shouldn’t.

but sometimes, include is the thing. it’s there for a reason.

I’m a big fan of inclusion tags, too

APXtvlKDVI: sounds like you want your app to extend base_app.html which in turn extends base.html

that’s a super common pattern I use all the time.

Well, what I'm trying to do is...I have several templates that have a form, and instead of writing out the same form crap with {% if %} and {% for %} tags and whatnot, I wanted to replace them all with {% block %} tags and have a single forms.html or something that gets plugged into those templates.

include

Oh

I didn't know that was a thing.

{% include 'form.html' %} something along that line

Thanks!

actually, I’m thinking inclusion tag, jsut so you can get the form class and insert it into the current context.

however you may need to use an inclusion tag if you need some logic around it

and not have to do it in the view.