Tag: django

My settings.py file in Django is getting too long. How do I split it into two?

How do I do that? split up 2 files? Answer Although my solution is not as complex as the ones above, they fit my simple needs: I have some imports in my settings.py file: And then I have a settings_local.py file in my local development folder (which I don’t upload to the server) and where I overwrite lo…

How do I filter query objects by date range in Django?

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I’ve got a field in one model like: Now, I need to filter the objects by a date range. How do I filter all the objects that have a date between 1-Jan-2011 and 31-Jan-2011? Answer Use Or if you are just trying to filter month wise: Edit As Bernhard Vallant said, if you want a queryset which excludes the …

How can I store an array of strings in a Django model?

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I am building a Django data model and I want to be able to store an array of strings in one of the variables; how can I do that? e.g. Thanks for the help. Answer Make another model that holds a string with an optional order, give it a ForeignKey back to myClass, and store your array in there.

Proper way to test Django signals

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I’m trying to test sent signal and it’s providing_args. Signal triggered inside contact_question_create view just after form submission. My TestCase is something like: Is this the proper way to test this signal? Any better ideas? Answer I’ve resolved the problem by myself. I think that the b…

How to check if a user is logged in (how to properly use user.is_authenticated)?

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I am looking over this website but just can’t seem to figure out how to do this as it’s not working. I need to check if the current site user is logged in (authenticated), and am trying: despite being sure that the user is logged in, it returns just: I’m able to do other requests (from the f…

Aggregating save()s in Django?

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I’m using Django with an sqlite backend, and write performance is a problem. I may graduate to a “proper” db at some stage, but for the moment I’m stuck with sqlite. I think that my write performance problems are probably related to the fact that I’m creating a large number of ro…

What is the path that Django uses for locating and loading templates?

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I’m following this tutorial on a Windows 7 environment. My settings file has this definition: I got the base_template from the template admin/base_site.html from within the default Django admin template directory in the source code of Django itself (django/contrib/admin/templates) into an admin subdirec…

Django datetime issues (default=datetime.now())

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I have the below db model: I add a new instance by using the below: My issue: all records in database have the same value in date field, which is the date of the first payment. After the server restarts, one record has the new date and the other records have the same as the first. It looks as if

Change text_factory in Django/sqlite

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I have a django project that uses a sqlite database that can be written to by an external tool. The text is supposed to be UTF-8, but in some cases there will be errors in the encoding. The text is from an external source, so I cannot control the encoding. Yes, I know that I could write a “wrapping laye…

How does Django save decimal values?

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What am I doing wrong? I do something like that: count is the sum of all ratings of given MyModel and votes is an array of those ratings, their division gives an average rating for MyModel (sorry if I described it incorrectly due to my poor English). If i change previous to: Then ‘anything’ ends u…