Complete newbie here, trying to set up Django to work with PostgreSQL. I’m using mac osx 10.6.8. I have also installed PostgreSQL 9.3 When I run pip install psycopg2 in terminal I get the following error I’ve seen a number of posts on this how-to-install-psycopg2-with-pip-on-python pg-config-execu…
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Building ‘limitless’ menu trees with Django
I have a model: And want to build a template which contains menu with limitless parent-child relations for each entry, where parent id’s of the “first-level” elements is 0. And as a result to build any html menu trees I want. Answer Don’t re-invent the wheel; use a dedicated Django ext…
In PyCharm, how to navigate to the top of the file?
I’m new to PyCharm and haven’t been able to figure out what I’m sure is a very simple thing — what’s the key stroke to go to the top of the current file? (Bonus question — is there a way to scroll to the top of the current file without moving the cursor there also, a la the…
Calling a view from a management command
So I have added a command to manage.py in my django app that basically takes the results from a view and emails them out to specific users. This command will run on a cron schedule – basically this is done as an automated, emailed report. I’ve figured out how to add in the command but I want to ca…
How to find uid of existing python email object
I have been reading through this document. Most of the document is based on finding an email’s uid. From the article: I’m working with a django app called django-mailbox (http://django-mailbox.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html) the purpose of which is to consume emails. The app creates a “…
Django 1.6 No Category matches the given query
I am newbie in django .. and i dont understand what is reason this 404 error I have Page not found (404) when i try go to link No Category matches the given query. code: models.py: views.py: urls.py Answer Most likely, you don’t have category object with slug that you are specifying in the url. Due to t…
Django Rest Framework File Upload
I am using Django Rest Framework and AngularJs to upload a file. My view file looks like this: As the last line of post method should return all the data, I have several questions: how to check if there is anything in request.FILES? how to serialize file field? how should I use parser? Answer Use the FileUplo…
Nginx is throwing an 403 Forbidden on Static Files
I have a django app, python 2.7 with gunicorn and nginx. Nginx is throwing a 403 Forbidden Error, if I try to view anything in my static folder @: nginx config(/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp) contains: error.log contains: access.log contains I tried just viewing say a .css file in /static/ and it throws an er…
Django REST Framework serializer field required=false
from the documentation: read_only Set this to True to ensure that the field is used when serializing a representation, but is not used when updating an instance during deserialization. Defaults to False required Normally an error will be raised if a field is not supplied during deserialization. Set to false i…
Django REST Framework – Separate permissions per methods
I am writing an API using Django REST Framework and I am wondering if can specify permissions per method when using class based views. Reading the documentation I see that is quite easy to do if you are writing function based views, just using the @permission_classes decorator over the function of the views y…