#django

I started off with standalone django within a virtualenv, and now most of the tutorials are difficult to follow :(

tuskkk___: you'd need a WSGI server app to run django, and have nginx proxy to it

tuskkk___: https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2016/02/10/deploy... is fairly good IMO.

(it's not django specific but does have some django information)

tuskkk___: also http://musings.tinbrain.net/simple-django-deploy/

also uses nginx and uwsgi

no I am thinking of deleting my doings and starting again correctly

tuskkk___: well, mine starts from "setting up your DigitalOcean droplet"...

I should give it a refresh some time soon, in fact

especially now debian9 is out

tuskkk___: it's typical to do development with the "standalone" django server anyway, no need to delete anything. The same codebase should run under a real webserver and the dev server.

I am using a bare bones machine, ubuntu 14.01

Wooble, obj[0].date_diff works better now, getting this error https://paste.pound-python.org/show/PfOr9LxYmgK... but I think it is because I need it to recognize timezones

what woltman said

Wooble said, even

Wooble: what happened was, I already had everything under a venv, then from one of the tutorials, I also installed VirtualEnvWrapper, so now I have two venvs, with no idea how to correctly create the uwsgi sock. My nginx is setup though, I have had past experience with it.

oh man the setup of django... spent 2 days to setup that, good luck, most of the tutorials are either outdated or miss some parts and you end up spending 3 hours debugging

+FunkyBob, you asked for the code, https://dpaste.de/AbAF. but still cant get it subtract the date correctly

Tadassssss: set up what? django for dev or for serving?

for all, for beginners I'd say it is difficult and even some tutorials on digitalocean miss some parts

tutorials on digitalocean are usually crap

yeah, figured that out already

written by people who can’t even get themselves a blog

anyways, please ChrisWarrick, you are the master of python, check my code https://dpaste.de/AbAF, I want to get the date difference

date difference from now minus timestamp on last sql row inserted

wreed, database doesn't know what safe text is so no, you can't do that.

Tadassssss: try printing it before returning it? Format it? (and you don’t need @property)

wreed, SafeText just means it's a string that has been flagged as safe.

I suppose you can store that flag as a boolean, if you really need to differentiate between SafeText and regular old strings

make it a separate field then

i dont really need to since users cannot send notificaitons (they are only from the server) i just thought it would be extra careful to only mark the ones with desired html in it as safe but i guess it doesnt really matter

thanks dang`r`us

Figured out a way how to subtract these damn dates. https://paste.pound-python.org/show/iVMkMvszNIz... Thank you all for help, gotta go now!

Hello all. I'm noticing some strange behavior with django - I'm rendering a static html file I have, that I put in a directory called app, with the render_to_response function. However, if I change the name of the app directory (and subsequently change the path in my render_to_response call) I get a TemplateDoesNoteExist exception. Is the app directory special somehow?

harwiltz: is your renamed app in INSTALLED_APPS?

hylje: I don't think I ever edited INSTALLED_APPS, lemme check

that's in settings.py?

yes

being installed is special, not the app package itself

I have neither the new directory name or 'app' in there

The only edit I made to that is the addition of staticfiles

staticfiles has nothing to do with rendering templates

different dir

dang`r`us: Yeah that's my point, that's why I'm so confused as to why my app/index.html renders but not testdir/index.html

AFAIK, I refactored all instances of app/

Hello friends, the dj1.8 docs says about custom managers "If you override the get_queryset() method and filter out any rows, Django will return incorrect results."

harwiltz, did you check out the tutorial? your templates go in app_name/templates/app_name

why is thtat?

so app 2 can override app 1

as in app_2/templates/app_1

anyway, do the tutorial :)

dang`r`us: Alright sure, but I have no templates directory

And why should it matter where the html is stored anyway? I'm sending data from the server to the front end, it's not like is if it has to host my html somewhere. Is there a way I can put my HTML in an HttpResponse?

Without writing it out in my python source, of course

template != html file

FunkyBob: Updated thoughts about the bulk_update http://schinckel.net/2017/06/30/django-bulk_upd...

I always have to do Model.objects.filter(disabled=True), can I override get_queryset on my manager to do this filter there?

Also, go to bed.

:)

rougeth: Consider having more than one manager on your model. Because otherwise you'll _never_ be able to get the disabled objects.

Unless you _really_, _really_ don't ever need them. And then maybe create a manager to access them anyway.

FunkyBob: I know, but I'm not actually rendering a template. My html file is pure html. Is there any way I can send that in a response conveniently without using the render_to_response?

I guess I can just read my html file into a string and send that via HttpResponse, I just thought there must be a better way

harwiltz: So it's just a static file. Get your wsgi server to serve it.

schinckel: Alright, I'll look into that. Thanks

you said you were rendering it, with render_to_response....

schinckel: the docs says "If you override the get_queryset() method and filter out any rows, Django will return incorrect results."

schinckel: incorrect because I'm filtering, right?

FunkyBob: Yeah, because I saw that online as an easy way to display html. But it's not a template

It means you can't _ever_ get the rows that are filtered out.

well, you're treating it as one

schinckel: uhmm, ok.. thank you! :)

FunkyBob: Yeah I know, and I want to change that

then put it in static, ant server it there

what is it for , anyway?

FunkyBob: Just as a learning excercise, lol. I'm quasi-comfortable with html/js/jquery, so I wanted to have a python backend and html/js/jquery frontend. Actually, more accurately, I want to have a frontend that is completely independent of django

So that way I can use whatever I want for the frontend, and use python for the backend

so have your web server serve that static content... django always advises that

But interestingly enough, I did try putting my html under my static dir. I got the same error

what error?

TemplateDoesNotExist

if it's in static, .... django doesn't serve it

so

what were you doing that raised that error? treating it like a template

when, as you said, it's static

stop using django to serve it

Oh, I see. So how do I render it then? Just by typing in <ip>:8000/static/index.hmtl?

Yeah that works...

But what if I wanted to incorporate this with the url stuff in urls.py? So that why I can make use of the fancy regex with displaying this page?

... why? it's static

Yeah... I guess that would be useless

I like you.

Is that sarcastic?

I feel like I just made myself look like a donkey, haha

no, it's honest. you think, you explore, you challenge, you reason... and you accept input

Well, I appreciate that! Thanks! And I like you too, you have been helpful. Sometimes the people on IRC have less patience than you ;)

get a room already

Lauxley: already on it

give the address then

:)