Retrieve similar objects from a model
This function looks up items similar to a specific string. Requires the [Levenshtein module](http://trific.ath.cx/resources/python/levenshtein/).
- levenshtein
- similarity
- related
Snippet List
Simple solution for model schema evolution / database changelog
This is a very simple approach to "schema evolution" (Not sure if you can even call it so) - I use it for my project: [SCT](http://sct.sphene.net) and it seems to work quite nicely. The idea is, that if you add or change your models, you add a 'changelog' attribute to your class which defines the SQL queries required to update your models. Of course this only works for one database type... An example 'syncdb' call if a new changelog entry was detected: kahless@localhost ~/dev/python-new/sphenecommunity/sphenecommunity $ ./manage.py syncdb Executing module body. 2007-06-16 00: SQL Statement: ALTER TABLE "sphboard_post" ADD markup varchar(250) NULL Detected changes - Do you want to execute SQL Statements ? (yes,no): So if the SQL statement won't work with the database the user is currently running, he at least knows exactly what he is expected to change in his models. and he can stop automatic execution by simply entering 'no' here.
- changelog
- schema-evolution
linebreaksli template filter
This template filter will split a string of text on newlines and return a string of <li></li>s with a newline before every line. This is handy for taking a paragraph of text and making an <ol> or <ul> from its lines. Don't forget to register your filter with the template library first or the filter won't work.
- filter
- linebreaks
- li
Table
This is rough code that will allow you to create a table using a sequence. It is based on the for loop tag in django template. It works basically the same except that certain variables are set based on what cell is being rendered. The tag itself does not output any html at all. This allows for simple code and very flexible creation of nice tables/grids. Enjoy
- table
- grid
Integrating Django with ToofPy
[ToofPy](http://pyds.muensterland.org/wiki/toolserver.html) is a python server that supports WSGI so you can integrate Django with it via the WSGI handler. There is already some default Django integration in the source, but it looked really hacked up with many `if hasdjango:` lines all over the place and hardcoded URLs. A really simple solution is to create a Tool for wrapping around Django. That is what the above file does. So I removed most of the hardcoded django lines and created the tool above. ToofPy dynamically loads tools based on paths on the filesystem, so you'll need to put the file above in the WSGI folder path. Or, if you want to pre-integrate, import the file in the _initops function of WSGIMainTool just after the code to scan the directory.
- django
- python
- toofpy
- toolserver-for-python
If in list template tag
Given an item and a list, check if the item is in the list ----- item = 'a' list = [1, 'b', 'a', 4] ----- {% ifinlist item list %} Yup, it's in the list {% else %} Nope, it's not in the list {% endifinlist %}
- template
- tag
- list
- in
autocompleter with database query
This is an improvement of snippet 253 in that it supports database queries. Implementing autocompletion for foreign keys takes a few steps: 1) Put the snippet above into <app>/widgets/autocomplete.py. 2) Create a view of your foreign key model (here: Donator) in <app>/donator/views.py: from models import Donator from widgets.autocomplete import autocomplete_response def autocomplete(request): return autocomplete_response( request.REQUEST['text'], Donator, ( 'line_1', 'line_2', 'line_3', 'line_4', 'line_5', 'line_6', 'line_7', 'line_8', '^zip_code', 'location' ) ) This view returns the autocompletion result by searching the fields in the tuple. Each word from the form field must appear at least in one database field. 3) Create a URLconf that points to this new view. 4) In the form where you need the autocompletion, define the widget of the foreign key field as an instance of AutoCompleteField: from widget.autocomplete import AutoCompleteField field.widget = AutoCompleteField( url='/donator/autocomplete/'), options={'minChars': 3} ) The url parameter is the URL connected to the view in step 3), the options dict is passed on to the Ajax.Autocompleter JavaScript object. Links: * [Snippet 253](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/253/) * [Django and scriptaculous integration](http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/IntegrationWithDjango) * [Ajax.Autocompleter](http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Ajax.Autocompleter)
- ajax
- selection
- database
- autocomplete
- query
- foreign-key
- prototype
- scriptaculous
- protoculous
Pull ID from arbitrary sequence
Django does not currently allow one to pull ID values from arbitrarily named sequences. For example, if you did not create your ID column using the serial data type in PostgreSQL, you likely will not be able to use your sequences. This is quite a problem for those integrating with legacy databases. While ultimately the best place to fix this is django proper, this decorator will help people get by for now. Note that in this case, all of my sequences are named "pk_TABLENAME". You'll likely have a different convention and should update the decorator appropriately. While I could have made the pattern a parameter, it didn't seem like that would gain much here.
- database
- sequence
- postgresql
Case-insensitive lookup by default
I wanted lookups on tags to be case insensitive by default, so that things like Tag.objects.get(name='Tag') would return any similar tags (ignoring case differences), i.e. `<Tag: tag>`. This snippet makes lookup on the 'name' field case-insensitive by default, although case-sensitive lookups can still be achieved with 'name__exact'. Methods like get_or_create will work as expected and be case-insensitive.
- model
- tags
- tagging
- manager
- case-insensitive
- iexact
- queryset
Inspect object debugging tag
Simple template tag that allows you to inspect an object in the context for debugging. It will inspect django models and forms using introspection. Dicts and lists are formatted to truncate long data. Pretty much everything else just displays the __str__ representation + class name. Example output: http://dsanity.net/introspectiontag.html Usage: put tag code as file introspection.py in your templatetags directory. Place the html template in your template path under "inspect_object.html". Then in your template: {% load introspection %} {% inspect_object obj "test object" %} The first parameter is the object to inspect, the second is the name used for display purposes.
- tag
- debug
- debugging
- introspection
Middleware that fixes URLs generation for admin and {% url %} for SCGI and WSGI
This middleware fixes generation of URLs for admin interface and {% url %} resolving when you're mounting application to the subtree of site, e.g. if you use SCGIMount /prefix/ and serve application using SCGI, or if you use WSGI and want to bind Django application to some prefix.
- middleware
- url
- relative
Regular Expression Dictionary
Cute little dictionary-like object that stores keys as regexs and looks up items using regex matches. It actually came in handy for a project where keys were regexes on URLs.
- regex
- re
- dict
Partial OpenID provider implementation from idproxy.net
Lots of people have asked me when the [django-openid](http://code.google.com/p/django-openid/) package will provide tools for running an OpenID provider (in addition to an OpenID consumer). The answer is "when it's done", but since it's such a common request I've decided to post some example code to help people who want to work it out for themselves. This is the openidserver.py file from [idproxy.net](http://idproxy.net/). It is **incomplete** - the urlconf, models, templates and some utility functions are not included. In other words, it's useless for anything other than providing a few hints as to how you can go about implementing a provider. Nonetheless, it's better than nothing. I hope this will prove a useful example for people trying to figure out how to best integrate the JanRain Python OpenID library with Django to build an OpenID provider.
- openid
- incomplete
- partial
nofollow filter
This filter add extra attribute **rel="nofollow"** to any "<a ..." element in the value, which does not contain it already. I use this to filter comments text in my blog.
- filter
MetaOptions
A class called MetaOptions that enables decoration of Django models with meta classes in similar style to Admin and Meta. Included is an example usage to enable CSV export of any set of models. The package installs into django.contrib.options and is available for download at the [Python Cheeseshop](http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/django_options/r6)
- csv
- options
- meta