Questions tagged [django]
Django is a Python-based framework for creating web applications.
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Creating a pythonic snippet to read and clean .csv files
I am trying to import a .csv file, clean the contents, and make sure all the errors are eliminated.
IO error
file format error
data error
I am using the snippet below. Could someone help me clean ...
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Is one view that handles two sibling models a good idea?
I am using Django multi-table inheritance: Video and Image are models derived from Media. ...
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Split Django into apps
I am thinking about how to split my website into smaller reusable apps. I've finally figured out something and need your opinion.
My main problem was that each app uses ...
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Implementing "day wise task management" system using Django and AngularJS
I have a Task model in Django which looks like the following:
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modifying local environment in python
I need to inject same variables into settings.py for multiple django apps.hence i wrote a module which takes in output of local() and modifies. This works but is it the right way to do things?
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Task for all objects in model with datetime operations
I created this quite important piece of code, but I am not pretty sure is it good enough.
Goal:
I have a big task for a database and have decided to use Django-Celery. I want to go through all ...
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Django template block name changing function
I created a reusable function for changing block name in Djago templates. I want to know if the code is good or is there any probable issues in it. I developed the function as a hack for the following ...
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Faster Django CSV generation for several million database entries
I am writing a CSV file generator that's filtering through about seven million database entries (MySQL backend). This part is especially slow and I was wondering if there is a way to make it much ...
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Unpacking sequences for functions [closed]
After watching Raymond Hettinger, I decided to go through my code and make it faster and more beautiful. The example given on the slides is, unfortunately, not good enough to get me going (ref. https:/...
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Storing folders of list of records in Google Drive
I've written a script using the Django ORM to store 'configuration settings' and interacting with the Google Drive API and another API. The script creates a base project folder and subfolders in ...
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POST data handler
I have written a function to handle post data received from a web page. The Emphasis is on making getting post data easy: using the function allows the coder to specify the required data, type, and ...
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Finding the profile name for a join in my Facebook auth backend
I've written a project for handling various Facebook things and I ran into the issue where one project named the users profile Profile while normally they would be ...
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Python parser for attributes in a HAML template
I'm working on a feature for the HamlPy (Haml for Django) project:
About Haml
For those who don't know, Haml is an indentation-based markup language which compiles to HTML:
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Building and getting a form of objects that have multiple properties
I'm building a form dynamically in a web app where I'm using product_id to keep track which product I'm reading and then ...
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Doubts about db_index, primary_key and unique parameters
I'm trying to improve my code. I've some doubts about db_index, primary_key and unique parameters.
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Am I being too redundant in this Django view (or can I reduce the repetition in my code)?
I'm new to Django and learning my ways around it. I'm writing a fake basic CRUD app to get me started. In the following code I pretty much copy and paste the same code four times with minor ...
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Mobile content delivery system
For flexing my newly acquired Django & Python muscles, I have set up a mobile content delivery system via Wap Push (Ringtones, wallpapers, etc).
The idea is that a keyword comes in from an sms ...
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Decorator to take away repetitive code
I'm using django and I wrote this decorator to take away some of the repetitive code I found for ajax views and I want to know your opinion (too basic, bad design, try this instead, etc).
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i18n translator using Jinja2
I'm learning to Jinja2 and what's important in this case isn't speed but i18n translations and functionality. With Python 2.7, Jinja2 and not Django seems to preferred way to go, so I'm rewriting much ...
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Parsing and data presentation in Django
For some time now, I've been using a pattern which I think could be done more elegantly.
I have a lot of XML files that need to be represented in a Django views. My current approach is like this:
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Django view function
I have a view function that allows a user to Add / Edit / Delete an object. How does the following function look, and in what ways could I improve it? I was thinking about separating aspects of the ...
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Django Team Sport class
So this isn't EXACTLY my code but it is close enough to show what I have. Also the naming is only for this site so if its not really clear forgive me. Its much clearer in the actual code.
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Separating a view function by action
I have one large view function where a user can Add, Edit, Delete, and Update his education. I am currently doing this all in one view because I haven't yet learned how to split up views by function. ...
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Multiple forms in django
I have an account page where I have three forms. A user can change his name, his email address, and his password.
There are two difficulties I am having from trying to do this:
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How would you rate this python code? (Django AJAX)
This code comes straight out from the example code in a Django book. I find it quite bad, mainly because the use of flags (if ajax then again ...
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Three-table queryset (full outer join?) in Django
I've got three tables I need query to display to a user for a web application I've written. Each table (Url, Note, Quote) has a foreign key relation to the User table. For every User, I need to sort ...
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Todo app for displaying a list of tasks
The main view in my (toy!) Todo app is, of course, to display the list of tasks. These are grouped by some criterion, and the tasks structure below is actually a ...
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Converting an already-uploaded file and saving it to a model's FileField
Please review this:
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Django query_set filtering in the template
Can I make my template syntax simpler? I'm hoping to eliminate the if and maybe also the for block.
This worked in the shell ...
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An idiom to use the same view function to create or edit an object?
Here is the skeleton of my (first!) Django app:
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Music info model
I'm learning Django as I go. I know this model is missing user authentication, registration, comments/comment threading, and voting. But this is my starting code for my model. What are some of the ...
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