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This was super non-obvious, and I lifted code from a couple of different places. If you’ve got Django view code that gets & sets session values, you’ll want to test it properly, and the standard “self.client” from Django’s TestCase doesn’t really give you a usable session. So, here’s the method I’m using: def stuff_session(client, dictionary): [...]
Continue Reading →Here’s what you need to do Django development on Windows 7. As I go through the install, I’m writing down all the steps to make sure that I don’t miss any. I’m going to focus on: Python 2.7.1 from python.org virtualenv (manages python packages and dependencies) Visual Studio 2008 (for compiling Python addons) PostgreSQL 8.4 [...]
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I find myself typing stuff like this a lot: {% for item in list %} {% if forloop.first %}<ul>{% endif %} <li>{{ item.value }}</li> {% if forloop.last %}</ul>{% endif %} {% empty %} <p>No items in list.</p> {% endif %} Is there a cleaner way to do this? It’s a lot of code for creating [...]
Continue Reading →It took me a while to figure this out, so I’m writing it down. What I wanted was to have my django.wsgi script use the production settings and to have bin/django use the development settings. Sounds easy, right? It’s not obvious what the right way to accomplish this is, but here’s what I’ve come up [...]
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Django development on Windows sounds easy, but there are a bunch of steps to get it all working right. Python. Use Python 2.7 from python.org http://python.org/download/. I recommend avoiding the 3rd party Python distributions (ActiveState, Enthought, etc.) and sticking with the official build. As a note, this python is (currently) built with Video Studio 2008. [...]
Continue Reading →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′ b = ‘axis_2′ c = ‘axis_3′ d = ‘value’ if a not in context: context[a] [...]
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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 50 users so far, which is pretty great considering we haven’t done much marketing. [...]
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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 some Haystack code. The code at hand is in the save() method of the model [...]
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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 approaches you can take. The easiest way I found is to say: context['context'] = context [...]
Continue Reading →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 to have a separate file for each view in my system. In other words, I [...]
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