#django

I'm having a weird problem with a form, before I have a field called "promptkey" then I rename to "prompt", but now using firebug I can see both fields inside form..

I have removed *.pyc and restarted django

well that sounds like you're caching something, somewhere. Hard to tell more from a distance.

I have a custom Auth model, which should not have access to the admin :D but, can get into the admin, and sees message “You don't have permission to edit anything.”

even though `is_staff()` just returns False, etc. etc.

How do I prevent this?

no cache in dev, I changed browser too... and the weird is,,, promptkey have value and prompt no (this is a FK)

bahoo, this might help? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7387174/how-...

amcorreia, dunno, what I would probably do is run a grep -Hr promptkey /your/project/root

it's gotta be somewhere.

Ahh I see — I had `is_staff` as a method

which, even if it is just `return False`, exists and somewhere returns truthy :D

kk cool

a very subtle pitfall there. huh

I guess that’s a documentation bug; I don’t see any hints in the code that `is_staff` is ever a method https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/a...

In django standards, could I have something like an app called website, and have a separate folder in the app called admin with its own urls.py and views.py, etc?

say I do a pip install app package..and I want to copy the package locally into my django project folder

Dafonz, why?

is there a way to do it with pip or is it as easy and copying the folder locally into my project folder?

I want to modify the app

Dafonz, hmm, lemme think what a good option would be in that case. You could probably pin the exact version number and then just edit it

Dafonz, it seems to be cleaner to fork on e.g. github and install from there though

e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23075397/pyt...

hum I could fork it

Dafonz: why do you want to copy the package into your project folder?

but I'm not going to include any of the updates from that app

I just want it to be part of my overall project

I always do what dang`r`us does

Dafonz: there is editable mode, and i think (not sure) there is an option to tell pip where to put the source for the editable packages

daniel2: it might be kind of confusing to call something admin

that was not the actual name. I was making an example

actually.. maybe I'm asking the wrong question

Dafonz: but i also do what dang`r`us and jessamynsmith do. i wonder what your usecase here is.

what I'm looking to do is integrate a front-end for user authentication into my app

I'd rather do something like to organize it better

so something like https://github.com/pinax/django-user-accounts

Dafonz, if you fork you don't have to follow the app's updates

you're frozen in time unless you re-pull/merge from the app repo

no i understand the forking.. but why keep it in a diff repo when I can just keep in my project repo?

I'm not seeing the advantages of keeping it seperate?

Dafonz: it's easier

Dafonz: so you should turn the question around: why not :)

Dafonz, depends on the install process, if it's just some py files you're fine but if e.g. you need to compile a C extension then it becomes a burden, especially when deploying to a remote machine. You can just as well have a $app_root/lib directory and put stuff there, have to add that to PYTHONPATH then

Dafonz: also, it makes some other things easier, for example running linters over your code or measuring test coverage

with a fork you have a separate history for your patches to the app/lib

yeah it's not compiled C or anything

it's just some .py files

it's better to have a clean separation between code that is part of your project and libs that your project uses

however, if you are sure that you prefer the other way, feel free to do it. it works.

I'm not sure which is why I'm asking :)

just trying to understand

Dafonz: if i put stuff in my repo, i have to exclude it from various commands

there are several tools than run recursively through my project dir and do something with all the files they find.

what I'm actually trying to do is create an app that will allow front-end users to upload photos

and display like a photo gallery

I couldn't find a convenient django package

but what I did find was an django accounts.. so at least I can bookstrap that process

often, you don't even have to change the code of an app to extend it

you can subclass / wrap / override things. but it depends on the specific situation.

hum.. ok

what moldy said

what's the best practice for something like this case scenario...

I instsall a package with pip install ____

find out the package doesn't work

and come up with a fix

Dafonz: extend the package by subclassing or such if possible. if it's not possible, fork it and pip install your fork.

daniel2: I make lots of apps in their own directories

I personally don't like putting them in the project module

I now have a pip install with my fixes...

I experimented with putting them in an apps module

daniel2: mostly these days I do this: https://github.com/jessamynsmith/eggtimer-server

but it's not cloned from a git repot at all

eggtimer is the project module and periods is an app

I installed virtualenvwrapper on my laptop and created a development dir. What are the next steps? (I have my code with a requirments file on git.)

empedokles78: next step is to activate the virtualenv, then proceed as usual: pip install -r requirements.txt

So you're just creating non-app directories in the root project directory?

moldy, to make sure: I activate my env, cd into development and clone and then install my requirments, right?

empedokles78: sounds right

I was talking about putting directories in the app folders.

I could probably just organize the views in apps views.py then

you can create a views/ package inside your app if you want to, that is fine

daniel2: yeah, if I need one for libs or something

oh, you can have as many directories as you want in an app

that might be a sign it should be multiple apps ,though, if it's so big

The project is an entire website, the apps are for each section of the website. So the "sub apps" I was considering would be for smaller portions of a section.

ah

yeah, if it works well, make submodules in the apps dir

Hey, am i new! I can't find any good resources for django. How did you learn Django?

catman22: people speak very highly of the django girls tutorial

and then after that, do the official django tutorial

catman22: if it helps, here is a walkthrough I did for someone to make a basic django project

catman22: If you're familiar with Python already, personally I found Django's official tutorial to be a great start

daniel2: don't nest apps, it's not really supported

catman22: And then using the little polls app you created as a reference point for whatever project you *do* want to work on

hai o/

daniel2: multiple python packages (directories) within one app is fine, but don't put an app inside another app

Alright, is the official tutorial all i need to get started?

catman22: Different things work for different folks, of course. It's a place to start, anyway!

catman22: generally, though if you are very new, the django girls tutorial explains more

catman22: if you know some programming and basic python, yes

catman22: As jessamynsmith mentioned, there's also the django girls tutorial as well.

moldy: so do like views/section.py?

daniel2: yes, if you want to. that is fine.

catman22: (I haven't personally gone through that one so I can't comment on it, but given its frequency of recommendation in here, I assume it's good. :)

thanks

is it possible to filter model objects dynamically like this? Comment.objects.filter(post__created_at__lte=<a property of the comment object itself>)

catman22: Also, my general advice is to have a project you want to implement in mind before you even start. It's much easier to dig down and learn something if you've got a specific goal in mind. "I want to do X, and I will implement it in Django/whatever."

Thanks guys!

I have an error that i know is in a package I'm using

it's telling me this: Exception Value:

'dict' object is not callable

but i can't trace the file

modly, now I'm a bit confused the "git clone" worked from the development directory, but If I push to git I always do this from inside the project directory of my djangoproject.

it's telling me its coming from lib/python3.5/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py in inner