#django

Trying to change the looks of my upload button. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21842274/cro... how do I incorporate my {{ form.xlsxfile }} to work? Can't figure it out...

Is there any post/tutorial/talk/conference about commenting code?

delgiudices: where what the code is doing is not clear, comment

generally the code should be clear in wat it's doing... or you're doing it wrong

personally I like the rule of thumb "code explains the how, comments explain the why"

I thought of that just wanted to hear someone talking about it

that, and of course apidocs if you're writing some sort of library

dang`r`us: nice

Documentation is pretty important, yeah

so is comprehensible code

the longer it takes to understand what it's doing, the more likely you are to break it... and the less productive yo'll be

hi. i have a submodel of user called 'setup' which has a bool called 'verified'. i'm trying to add that as a field within UserAdmin so that it displays on django admin but it doesn't accept 'verified' on it's own nor 'setup.verified' (it will only accept top-level properties of user). how can i access 'verified'?

FunkyBob: Is there any easy way to get the file name? After I upload it? newfile = Xlsx(xlsxfile = request.FILES['xlsxfile']) newfile.save() what it looks like atm.

duoi: add an accessor method to the ModelAdmin

Victor87: request.FIES['xlscfile'].name ?

I've tried, I get 'name 'requst' is not defined'

fix your typo [and mine]

'Exception Value: Can't convert 'Xlsx' object to str implicitly' Progress?

I wrote: getname = Xlsx(xlsxfile = request.FILES['xlsxfile'].name)

you sure it wants a filename, and not the file object to read from?

also...

I fixed it

as you see in the topic

paste code and full traceback

Sorry, I seem to be so tired atm, sorry FunkyBob.

It's solved anyways, thanks!

quack

Is there any way to reference MEDIA_ROOT? In other files outside of settings.py? I know django does it automatically in some specific django functions.

from django.conf import settingsg ; settings.MEDIA_ROOT

but this isn't what you want, I rekon

you want either to accessvia your FileField, or look at the storage api

True, it has to exist a full path+filename function. I've learned a lot these last few days, but man... The stupid crap I do

FunkyBob, I did (i think), but I'm specifically trying to get it so that I can have it as a sortable column on the /admin/auth/user/ page

should be able to sort by a filefield..

FunkyBob: Btw, ' 1) Provide a one-off default now (will be set on all existing rows)' My question is, is there any way to just clean the whole thing? Fresh start.

wha?

a little context will help Victor87 ... what are you talking about?

Is there any easy way to reset my database completly? python manage.py flush doesn't clean it 100%

drop it and start again

but that won't stop makemigrations asking for defaults

I really don't understand what I'm supposed to write as defaults.

default values

what should go into existing records for that field

yes, we know there are no existing records... but migrations CAN NOT assume that

and often your DBMS won't permit empty values... because your schema does not allow it

what sort of field is it?

I deployed my django site yesterday, but I am getting an error 500 periodically on just one page of my site.

does anyone know what could cause this?

what does the error message say?

This is on a server with debug off

and the process is running independent from my console.

in my nginx error log I get something somtimes that says permission denied, but I gave full permissions on that file and the socket is given 666

FunkyBob: Sorry, I fell asleep. Off to bed. Thanks for today. Gn!

kurse: it will still log errors... and even email them to you, if you added yoursetlf ro settings.ADMINS