Questions tagged [django]
Django is a Python-based framework for creating web applications.
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Django export to xls format
I'm working on a Django project and I'm wondering if there is any way to improve the process time to export my data to xls format.
Actually, it takes between 43 seconds and 49 seconds to create the ...
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Putting a multichoicefield under a dropdown button
I am building a web app in Django where one of the form fields is a multiplechoicefield from a many2many object that I use to select users that are allowed to edit the post. In standard form the field ...
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Simplify small pieces of code with Python/Django [closed]
I'm trying to make a code review for an external developer on my project. His code could be improved and I need your advices in order to know if my overwritten parts are better or not.
Part 1
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Simple auction application in Django
I'm learning backend dev and python and django1.
My first app is a basic auction site. Users sign up, submit an auction, and other users bid on the auctions.
I would highly appreciate any ...
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Django view to display weather measurements for selected location and dates
I'm a crop scientist and am currently building a web app that collects weather data then generates and displays modeled agriculturally relevant output. My question centers around an increasingly ...
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Two cases for indicating consent for a ticket
I have two cases here:
the person who ordered a ticket clicks on "Permission" and the OrderConsentUpdate View updates the database.
is the attendee him- or herself ...
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Django authentication against Exchange server
I wrote an authentication app for Django and my worry is primarily about the security of my app.
My Django authentication app uses exchangelib to authenticate ...
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Django model for real estate
I have built a real estate management system with Django. I want to know if my design database was wrong. Please let me know how to improve it.
Should I make the models use more than two tables (...
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Django Restframework: Writable nested serializer with custom behavior
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I am trying to get some practice with Django and Django REST framework.
As a toy example I want to set up a server to which I can POST results of automated test runs.
In the simplest version, ...
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Wipe sensitive information from memory in Python
I have come up with the following method to remove sensitive information with the help of the garbage collector:
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TDD tests for every view and its permissions in a REST API
I am currently developing a Django Rest Framework API with TDD. I have 15 tests and counting for two views, which doesn't seem right to me. It takes me a lot of time to write the tests and a lot of ...
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Django: Database efficiency - currently accessed twice
I have the following function that is called via signal. 1) check if incluencer exists. 2) Increase discount by +1. Currently, I hit the database twice. Is there a better way to write that? ...
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Django functions to sanitize URL, return welcome message, redirect, compute HMAC, and manage profile picture
I wrote this code to to perform the following:
I will remove the "spaces" within the url.
Return welcome message.
Redirect the user to different url.
Compute HMAC for the request.
Return and revoke ...
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Django delete user from userprofile [closed]
I'm creating a Django project where users can decide to delete their account and everything we know about them (solved riddles, votes ...).
I think you can compress this code but I don't know how.
I ...
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Using a form with formsets in Django
I'm learning Django and making my (technically second) project.
The project features several apps, including player_interface and manager_interface.
Here's the player_interface/models.py:
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NHL Stats web app
There is a web app. My first attempt to use NHL API have been reviewed here.
I'm interested in any kind of refactoring of this code.
But I have some questions that I want to point at specifically.
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Python/Django Class based saving
I'm creating multiple Django apps with vote possibilities, so I made an app vote to handle all this votes. In my templates I'm including an ajax-function named <...
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Python/Django Filter with Datetime and extra options
I'm creating a filter in python/django. I want to make a datetime human-readable.
You have multiple options:
Plain Datetime ("04. Februar 2018, 18:18")
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Generate automatically new groups in a tournament
I'm trying to model a tournament with Python (Django) and I've got a function that assigns teams of the previous stage to the groups of the new one.
The teams in the first stage are assigned manually....
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Building Slack message
I have the function which builds and return Slack message with text and attachments. How can I refactor this function to make it ...
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Counting users by the type in their profile
I'm creating a django web application and I would like to know how to shorten this code.
I have a model where every user has a typeOfPerson (Student, Teacher, Guest ...) and I want to count these ...
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Sending notifications with Django channels
I have project on Django wich use Django Channels. I use Django Channel for sending notifications to users who are subscribed to articles changes (adding/editing/deleting comments on article).
So I'...
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Django module to transform data from database to be displayed in Slickgrid tables
This is a Django tag with 2 classes, but can be viewed as a module:
What does the module do? it loads a database, performs some transformations on the data, returns the output as a dictionary of json ...
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Django model and views to summarize and plot an uploaded CSV
I have a simple web application where a user uploads a CSV of some dataset and some summary statistics and box plots are displayed. I heard that it is better to have so called skinny views and fat ...
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React + Django (session) authentication
Is authentication implemented correctly?
At the entry point to the app, which is App.js, query the Django server, which responds whether the current user is ...
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Custom login class based view
I am trying to fight my way trough self learning Django (as this is a beast on its own) and Python (just for coding <3) in combination with nginx, PostgreSQL and gunicorn - I have some limited ...
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Transactionally create something, if allowed
I have been looking over this block of code for hours trying to simplify it. Would there be a better way to check all those conditions before creating a transaction ...
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Isolate a Database Change Within Django Transaction.Atomic
I have been typically adding the @transaction.atomic decorator to my endpoints and appreciate if a request fails at any point the data completely rolls back. However, some of my endpoints will make ...
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Django post function : split method is a good way?
I'm working on my Django project and I'm trying to develop this one with 'Class Based View' (CBV) method in order to keep the code maintainable.
I have a class ...
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Let's make this Order nicer
Environment details
Python 3.6.5
Django 2.0 (which is not necessarily needed for this review)
Class details
I have a small class which holds 3 staticmethods (I ...
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Python Class to represent a Pokemon
I have been programming with Python on-and-off for about 2 years now, even now I still find that when I look at other applications I struggle to follow along with their classes/objects. Please help me ...
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JWT authentication between Django and ReactJS
I am currently using Django (2.1) to build an API, and I have added djangorestframework-jwt to manage JWT.
Here is the configuration:
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Click a link to delete targeted content using Ajax
I used a glyphicon as a link to delete a comment:
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Unit tests for os.scandir/scantree a directory
I wrote my first series of test for this simple function:
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An asynchronous solution to send validation email [closed]
I intend to send validating message to User's email to complete a registration with the following codes:
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Django shopping cart, and testing
For an e-commerce web application I have written a shopping cart, and some tests for it.
I have used a course on Lynda.com, on building an e-commerce website, as inspiration on how to build the ...
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Web scraping news articles with Beautiful Soup
It's been nearly a year I've been working with C++ and now I am diving in Python and its libraries and frameworks. I am currently creating a website for my portfolio that gathers news articles from a ...
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Django social network application - database schema
I am writing a simple social media application in Django. I would like to know whether the following model structure is correct, or how can I improve the schema to get better performance. Do I need to ...
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Cleanest way to get list of Django objects that have same foreign key and display them in a view
I am a beginner in Django and would like some advice regarding best practices.
I have the following model:
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Let's register that Django user
Short intro
So, I've been using Django for a while now and thought it would be nice to start a simple application. In an ideal World, each app must have a way of letting its users register and that's ...
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Middleware Django statistics
I have this middleware to log the number of queries, the time spent on each view and some errors and tracebacks.
This will be called on each request, so I had to put a 75ms timeout. I don't like it, ...
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Making zip file with custom content per user
What I tried to do:
In my main project folder I have directory downloadable_app with these files/folders inside:
index.html
js/app.f54b97d7097bcf4226c0.js
I need ...
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Tournament Management model
I'm creating tournament management web-app using wagtail and after searching for different solutions on the Internet came to the following:
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Django Project for creating events
Before I continue developing this project, I just wanted to make sure I'm going about creating the views and tests in a "proper manner" or if I am completely fudging this up. Also, is it better to use ...
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Show furnitures in a different way considering django principle
I want in my homepage to show the furnitures items in a following way:
Newly Arrived Furnitures(upto 10)
Featured Furnitures
Free shipping Furnitures (upto 10)
For this I tried to go ...
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Django Rest Framework ListAPIView - many if-s in get_queryset()
Please review my DRF ListAPIView code. There are a lot of if statements. I wonder if it's a good approach to put these if-s in <...
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Django model for an inventory management system
The usecase of my app I am trying to build is about Inventory Management System for a single company. I have
attached a layout depicting what table or model should look like. I have designed the model ...
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Django model to do accounting for a Litecoin miner pool
I'm coming from Java so I am used to performing calculations I require in separate functions. I would like to know if the below code makes sense in my Django model especially the loop and calling ...
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