#django

can anyone suggest how to modify a model form with required fields that validate so that the required fields don't need to be displayed in the HTML form itself?

how do you guys recommend deploying django? gunicorn? or uwsgi? something else?

collinanderson: I have one django deployment using nginx and gunicorn. Works fine.

vlt: thanks. i was running into an issue with gunicorn on ubuntu 16.04 where it would take a long time to restart my websites. turns out the system version of gunicorn is buggy but it's been fixed on pypi

collinanderson: Yeah, I’d always recommend running django and gunicorn from a venv and install the versions you need with pip.

vlt: i like the gunicorn-debian runner though. it makes deploying multiple websites much easier

but, yeah, i'll probably switch to using systemd directly at some point

collinanderson: I use gunicorn because I use heroku

makes sense

did you alerady try to add a new property to the LogRecord ?

I'm following TDD with Python, and we're doing "from django.contrib.auth import BACKEND_SESSION_KEY, SESSION_KEY" I'm looking at the source of that import and I see "SESSION_KEY = '_auth_user_id'

So they're just strings, what's the big picture over here?

newdimension: some people like to import actual python names rather than using the string directly. it's better for catching typos. is that what you're wondering?

I think. I was surprised that we're importing a string, opposed to just typing the string. I guess it makes sense to have all the configuration in one file and import it

Can some one please check my question at https://dpaste.de/T51N . I wrote it there becuase it would have been messy to type it here.

Oh I think it's because of SesssionBase's __setitem__ attribute. It looks like it allows SessionStore to act as a dictionary