Tag Archives: django

Multi-dimensional dicts in Python & Django?

Posted on April 5, 2010 by slacy

The code I’m working on frequently uses multi-dimensional dicts in Python.  There is a bunch of code that seems to be always doing this: # a,b, and c have come from some external data source, QuerySet, etc. a = ‘axis_1′ … Continue reading →

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Announcing Parents Guild

Posted on December 4, 2009 by slacy

Just a quick note to my readers and searchers that we’ve launched our new parenting website, Parents Guild.  We’ve got question & answering, e-mail notifications, tagging, voting, and a bunch of other parenting-specific features in the works.  We’ve got about … Continue reading →

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Resolving circular model imports caused by Haystack & Django

Posted on November 19, 2009 by slacy

So, in converting our search to Haystack, I’ve found that some of my standalone maintainence scripts no longer work.  They had an import error trying to import some of the models. The issue is that I’ve updated my models.py with … Continue reading →

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pprinting the Django context object

Posted on October 22, 2009 by slacy

This was non-obvious to me for quite some time, and I tried several different approaches before settling on this one: If you would like to pprint your Django Context (or RequestContext) object from within a template itself, there are several … Continue reading →

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How to split views.py into a directory (Django, Python)

Posted on July 24, 2009 by slacy

So, I’ve been doing some Django programming on the side, and the thing that annoys me is that Django forces you to put nearly all your source code into 2 files:  models.py and views.py Being a reasonable person, I wanted … Continue reading →

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