Questions tagged [django]
Django is a Python-based framework for creating web applications.
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Password generator in Django
I am a system admin, not a developer, so this might be pretty horrible code. This is a password generator. The point of the attempt was to become more familiar with Django at a lower level. I current ...
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Working with multiple currencies in Django
I'm working on a project where user adds many products and compare their prices, average price, minimal and many other statistics.
There are two currencies for now, EUR and CZK.
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React Redux quiz app
I started learning about React and redux recently and I created a dummy project based on drf-redux project and react-redux-quiz-game
This application uses Django rest framework for API and React with ...
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Django BaseController
A working example of mine, trying to streamlining my Django views, with absolute inspiration from Laravel:
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Django query ManyToMany for tagged items
I've got a item inventory that each inventory item is tagged with multiple tags. What I've got is an API that takes a query parameter with multiple comma separated query items and returns a list of ...
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Django Forms and handling
I'm really new with Django and I would like to get your minds, advices, ... in order to improve the first part of my project.
For the moment, I created a model form which is named ...
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Civil status database with Django
I'm beginning with Django and I have a Civil Status project.
I created my first models.py in order to get a Form, but I had some advices in order to normalize my database.
I made this process and I ...
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Django Notification Model with a generic relation
I wanted to implement notifications for my app, so that a user would know if another user, liked, commented on, or followed another user. It works, but I feel like it's very limited which I need to ...
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Abstracting celery tasks with class based implementations
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I want to send emails with a rendered template (django template, that is) but I also want to be able to control the QuerySets, and context provided.
The goal is to make a task whose ...
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Storing database references to files/media
This is an extension of this question due to it not covering an important role of my setup that I think needs more attention.
The files are stored on a different server for separation and convenience....
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Django REST custom methods for generic views
I'm intern and work on a project where I develop DRF API that need to interact with mobile app written by my colleague with Ionic framework.
We are creating new user. My view method is following:
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Backup MySQL database for Django projects
I have a usual Django application with a single MySQL database. The purpose of this shell script is to backup a MySQL database every midnight by crontab and check that everything goes right.
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Generating a unique ID for a filename
This function generates a unique id for my files, which will be stored in the database to reference them. It returns the id if unique, if not, it generates a new one. My separate file server can then ...
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Using mocking to test that a Django view renders as expected
I have a Django view that ends with this...
return render(request, 'define/see_all.html', context)
I have mocked the render function and
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oAuth2 token creation when registering new user
I am working on Django Rest Framework for backend to develop android app. My project is about Food Delivery System.
My app has user login and registration feature. I preferred oAuth2 for token based ...
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Method to return the lowest filename number not being used
I have a Django site where users upload and have the option to delete files. There will be a lot of files that will have the same logical name so I append numbers to them:
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Django class based view URL API
I kind of started making an API for my site in a Django class based view because it seemed logical and now it has gotten quite large and unruly and I am starting to wonder if I am doing this correctly....
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Model design for Online Food order app
I have been trying to develop online food order application. I have taken the concept of zomato.com where a user or say owner registers his/her restaurant. After adding the restaurant, an executive ...
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Dynamic Official Receipt increment algorithm
I made a function that would automatically generate official receipt for POS. it is able to accept format such as xxx, xxx-xxx, xx-xx.
But my code is really messy and horrible and it needs review. I ...
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Profile creation
I was creating a view with Django that would create a user profile for a website and this is what I came up with:
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One user profile for company and person
I'm creating a web page which has two types of users with very similar permissions: Person and Company. The main difference is ...
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Django controller method to list the top characters, guilds, and killers
I've been reading the Chapter 8 of this book.
Here's the view I'm currently coding. It list all characters/guilds according to the type of URL.
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simple form validation
i've just started to learn python /django ..
im coming from php world ...i mostly struggle with None values which are new to me .. in php i mostly did my boll checking with true/false but in python ...
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Idiomatic Django conditional filter queryset
I am sharing a viewset between two types of routes in Django: one is a nested route (/users/:id/comments/:id/), and a regular route (...
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Validating Email Addresses without DB
I wanted to put this out here and see if there were any security vulnerabilities that I'm not seeing. Also, if I can improve performance without sacrificing security, that's always a plus. Thanks in ...
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Get time slots based on multiple workshops
I have a list of Workshops, each having open days (Monday, Tuesday etc.) and open time and close time (which will be same for each day). Now, Based on the current time, I need to find out next 7 days ...
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Loading data from a text file into the database as fast as possible
I'm building a Django (1.8.12) application that parses a .bc3 file (Standard Interchange Format for Databases of Construction and Real State) and loads all the data into the database (PostgreSQL 9.3.9)...
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Auto registering class registry
I built this auto registering registry to look into a package and import all modules and register any classes that are a subclass of a base class. I use it as a registry for a model's choices in ...
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improvement of a database register function
Here is a function in a django rest api, that takes data in json and registers a category for a given website. I'd like to merge two try...except parts that check <...
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LRU caching decorator that caches in the instance and in a shared cache
I needed a caching decorator, that could be used with methods and functions, that could take typed args and kwargs, and that was Python 2.7 compatible. Therefore I started with a backport of the <...
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Selecting all posts created by user that actual user follows
I have a view that displays posts created by users that actual logged in user follows. It works, by I think the way I've done it isn't good.
BTW, UserProfile is my default user model.
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Registration in Django
Can you say, is this a bad code for registration in Django? Do I need to fix something or use a pip instead? (I am learning)
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FIFO inventory allocation method
I am an owner of a small industrial business startup and I am learning to write software in order to efficiently keep track of our inventory and finances, as our needs have outgrown the capabilities ...
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Handling SMS replies to register/unregister phone numbers
I'm working on a Django Twilio app, and I believe it's coming along well. I just want to improve my code writing skills. How can I improve the below code?
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Object oriented architecture with an image processing code
This code is python 3X code (in django).
It takes an instance of user entry, and process images: it creates a resized version of original image, 2 thumbs, saves all, and update instance fields to ...
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Django views for banking operations
How can I Pythonize/Djangoize/DRY my Django code?
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Bank account model implementation in Django
There is a draft of my models.py. What can I do for code quality and readability increase?
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Model classes for a quiz app in Django
I am creating simple quiz app in Django. It works, but I think that way I've done it is not the best. I have Exam detail view, which display questions related to that exam and answers for these ...
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Mapping different classes to the same database table
I have several very similar subclasses that I (think I) want to be stored in the same database table. Most of the fields are identical, with each subclass adding 1 or 2 custom fields. My code is using ...
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Ad filtering in Angular factory
I'm an 'old school' programmer (C, C++), and I have step-by-step, algorithmic thinking. I'm writing some code in Angular + Django and I know that this code is ugly but I don't have any idea how to ...
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SOAP request in a while loop
I am developing a service where the user need to sign the seller agreement with Mobile BankID (Swedish e-sign service). To make this work I need to make SOAP request to get the progress status of the ...
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Django search method
I have done this small piece of code used to search for a given word across several fields of a Django model.
Goal was to have first entries equals to the word, then entries starting by the world ...
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Serving a growing audio file with Django
I would like to serve a growing audio file (raw PCM audio for now) with the possibility of seeking. I tried to manage it with Apache, but in the end wasn't able to achieve what I wanted.
Now I ...
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Platform to buy services, where you can receive notifications
I am developing a website, where people can buy services, also it has a notification system; I do this in views to show log in and sign up, on index.html.
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A web crawler for scraping images from stock photo websites
I created a web crawler that uses beautiful soup to crawl images from a website and scrape them to a database. in order to use it you have to create a class that inherits from Crawler and implements 4 ...
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How should I arrange my imports? [closed]
I inherited a project that has many imports. Is there any way to refactor it so that we don't have this many imports?
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Excluding an element from a dictionary
I was asked to change code that I maintain (but didn't write) for a learning management system that previously listed an examed course both under examed courses and other courses and now my task was ...
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Changing attributes in Django Objects outside of iteration
I'm adding three attributes to a Django QuerySet that represents a hierarchical tree structure:
a display_name which is added to all objects
the id of the object's ...
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Updating multiple membership plan expiration dates at once
I have model action in RequestAdmin like this:
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