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Mako support as decorator

This snippet allows you to use @mako("templatename.mako") to define a mako template to use. Your python method just has to return a dictionary that will be passed to mako's context, after the addition of the "request" variable to the dictionary. If you return a non-False non dictionary object, it will return that instead of trying to render the template. The **request** variable is automatically added to the template's context. It also searches the current application's mako_templates/ subdirectory first before searching under the current directories mako_templates/, and does not use other application's mako_templates/ subdirectories at all. On Mako exceptions, it will display the Mako error page when debugging is enabled (hoping for extensible exception handling in the future to keep consistency) I got the idea from a [CherryPy tool](http://tools.cherrypy.org/wiki/Mako).

  • mako
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Author: rmt
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Handling choices the right way

This solves the problem with **choices** described [here](http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/nov/02/handle-choices-right-way/) Define your choices like this (in models.py): statuses = MyChoices(BIDDING_STARTED=10, BIDDING_ENDED=20) And then: status = models.IntegerField( default=statuses.BIDDING_STARTED, choices=statuses.get_choices() )

  • models
  • admin
  • choices
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TruncateChars

**Usuage:** {{ comment.comment|truncatechars:20 }} **Why to use:** First of all, my english isn´t the best. I hope you will understand my text anyways :) Ok, I had a problem with some "kiddies" posting huge comments like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this game rooooooooooocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Django has no function to "kill" that huge words within a string. So I´ve coded this little peace and hope that someone could use it. Greets from Germany, Aveal http://www.onlinewars.eu

  • truncate
  • chars
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improved getattr template filter

I tried to use [Joshua's](http://www.djangosnippets.org/users/joshua/) nice and very useful [getattr template filter (#38)](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/38/), but ran into a few problems. I used it on objects outside of my control (admin internals, coughcough) and on some of them the code didn't catch the resulting exceptions. So I improved the error handling a bit. Furthermore, the code now also returns the *value of a callable* instead of the callable *itself* (last 4 lines). Looking at my code though, it can certainly be improved further.

  • template
  • filter
  • get
  • attr
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Wiki-like markup for sub templates

I wanted to have the possibility to use a wiki-like markup style in my flatpages for various purposes (embedding images, quoting, etc.) After a few dead ends I came up with this, which is quite nice I think. > It basically takes a named tag, loads the corresponding template, passes in all arguments, renders the template and replaces the named tag with the result. *The markup looks like this:* > [[example:value to pass|option1=somevalue option2=values can have spaces too! without having to put them in quotes option3=some other value]] *This results in:* * Filter tries to load wiki/wiki_example.html * If it is loaded, it passes an WikiElement containing the value and the options to the template, renders it and replaces the tag with the rendered template *In the "wiki/wiki_example.html" template you can use it like this:* {{param.value}} {{param.opts.option1}} Or loop over param.opts.iteritems.

  • template
  • filter
  • markup
  • wiki
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extras.py for management commands

! Note - no longer needed Save this script in the same directory as manage.py and run it through the command line. It picks up project Command class instances. Something that will hopefully be fixed in the Django SVN version soon. Heres an example of a command: #utils/management/commands/sqlallall.py from django.core.management import call_command from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand from django.db import models class Command(BaseCommand): help = "Returns sqlall for all installed apps." def handle(self, *args, **options): """ Returns sqlall for all installed apps. """ for app in models.get_apps(): call_command("sqlall", app.__name__.split(".")[-2])

  • management
  • commands
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common model privacy

A BooleanField indicating privacy is common on models, but the name of the field and whether the field being True indicates private or public both may change across models. If there is more than one potentially private model, a common interface is needed. A commonly-named method would do the job with `[a for a in MyModel.objects.all() if not a.is_private()]`, but it would still retrieve private instances from the database only to filter them out. This approach puts the name of the privacy field and whether that field being True indicates private or public in a tuple attribute of the model class. A chainable method is added to all QuerySet objects. example use: class MyModel(models.Model): is_public = models.BooleanField(default=True) # ... privacy_field = ("is_public", False) \>\>\> publicMyModels = MyModel.objects.all().exclude_private() \>\>\> values = publicMyModels.values()

  • models
  • querysets
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Default Template Loading

One of the things about Django that has always irked me is that there seems to be no standard facility for just loading a page and displaying it, simply. Yes, there is the flatpages module, but it is primarily designed for loading content from a DB. While you specify a custom template and put in junk values for the DB content, it just feels like extra, unnecessary work. Thinking about the problem some more, I borrowed from the idea of flatpages and implemented a view that will load an otherwise unmapped template off the filesystem and render it. This is very useful when converting an existing site over. Just copy your files over. No need to map anything in the URL conf or use the admin to add any flatpage entries. Since it'll render the template, too, you can even use tags and what not, so it need not be a static page.

  • template
  • loader
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Db Mock

I hate when my unittest hits database. Especially when each test case needs different dataset. So I wrote this db mock, that's local to specific test and uses sqlite3 in-memory db. Usage (nosetests): class TestMainNoData(DbMock): 'testing main function with no meaningful data' def test_no_posts(self): 'there are no posts' assert models.Post.objects.count() == 0, 'should be no feeds'

  • testing
  • unittest
  • database
  • test
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Javascript HTTP response

I've been using this along with [prototype](http://www.prototypejs.org) to make simple ajax calls. In essence you make the calls from the client with... new Ajax.Request('url',{parameters:{'someparam':$('someparam').value}}); return false; On the onsubmit event of a form, onclick or whatever. Note that the return false is important to prevent the page from reloading. Sending some javascript to be executed back to the client is then as simple as setting up your view to return: return HttpJavascriptResponse('alert("boing");') So, yeah, prototype does the real work and this class does little other than make it clear what our intentions are and reduce the opportunities for typos. But it works for me.

  • ajax
  • javascript
  • prototype
  • return
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sqlallall.py

A simple script to run 'manage.py sqlall' on every app in a project.

  • sql
  • manage.py
  • sqlall
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Author: jkl
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Pass db.Field to newforms.Widget

Deprecated. I don't use this any more. Hi, I want decimal input which uses a comma as decimal seperator. It was quite complicated, but it works. It can be used as an example how to create an own subclass of an existing db.Field class and how to pass the dbfield to the widget, and use it in its render() method. I think my snippet is too complicated, but couldn't find a better solution. If you do, please tell me.

  • newforms
  • i18n
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"Approved" field with timestamp

I wanted to make the objects of a particular model approvable and store the timestamp of when that happened. In other frameworks/languages, I used to combined those in one "approved_at" field, which would be NULL if an object was currently unapproved. I tried different approaches to implement this in django, and this is the best I came up with so far. Basically, the code in __setattr__ makes sure that the field, once set, will not be updated again. Overriding setattr__() could also be a solution to determining if a field value has changed in save(), a question that seems come up from time to time in #django.

  • newforms
  • models
  • fields
  • forms
  • save
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