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Using reverse() to do redirects

When I initially set up my blog, I put together the archives with URL patterns like so: * `/weblog/2007/` goes to `archive_year` * `/weblog/2007/08/` goes to `archive_month` * `/weblog/2007/08/24/` goes to `archive_day` * `/weblog/2007/08/24/some-slug` goes to `object_detail` The same patterns held for links, only the prefix was `/links/` instead of `/weblog/`. For a forthcoming redesign/rewrite, I'm switching to using abbreviated month names (e.g., "aug", "sep", "oct", etc.) in the URLs, which means I need to redirect from the old-style URLs to the new. This snippet is the solution I hit upon. Two things are notable here: 1. Each one of these views uses [reverse()](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/url_dispatch/#reverse), called with the appropriate arguments, to generate the URL to redirect to. This means URLs don't have to be hard-coded in. 2. Each view takes an argument -- `object_type` -- which is used to generate the view name to pass to `reverse`, meaning that only one set of redirect views had to be written to handle both entries and links. This is just one of many handy tricks `reverse` can do :)

  • urls
  • reverse
  • redirects
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CompressedTextField

A CompressedTextField to transparently save data gzipped in the database and uncompress at retrieval. Full description at my blog: [arnebrodowski.de/...Field-for-Django.html](http://www.arnebrodowski.de/blog/435-Implementing-a-CompressedTextField-for-Django.html)

  • text
  • model
  • field
  • compressed
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duplicate model object merging script

Use this function to merge model objects (i.e. Users, Organizations, Polls, Etc.) and migrate all of the related fields from the alias objects the primary object. Usage: from django.contrib.auth.models import User primary_user = User.objects.get(email='[email protected]') duplicate_user = User.objects.get(email='[email protected]') merge_model_objects(primary_user, duplicate_user)

  • django
  • fields
  • model
  • generic
  • related
  • merge
  • duplicates
  • genericforeignkey
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typygmentdown

Based heavily on [snippet #119](/snippets/119/), this is an all-in-one function which applies Markdown and typogrify, and adds Pygments highlighting (selected from a class name or by having Pygments guess the language) to any `<code>` elements found in the text. It also adds some niceties for picking up useful arguments to Markdown and Pygments, and registers itself as a markup filter with the `template_utils` formatter. Requirements: * [BeautifulSoup](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) * [Pygments](http://pygments.org/) * [python-markdown](http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/) * [template_utils](http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/) * [typogrify](http://code.google.com/p/typogrify/)

  • pygments
  • markup
  • markdown
  • typogrify
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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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in_list filter

which you would use like this: The item is {% if item|in_list:list %} in list {% else %} not in list {% endif %}

  • template
  • filter
  • lists
  • tag
  • contains
  • in
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paginator using url tag

Example for provided django-tagging url snippet: {% paginator 4 image_tag_paged tag=tag page %} links then equals {% url image_tag_paged tag=tag,page=n %}

  • tag
  • pagination
  • url
  • paginator
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JSONField

This is a great way to pack extra data into a model object, where the structure is dynamic, and not relational. For instance, if you wanted to store a list of dictionaries. The data won't be classically searchable, but you can define pretty much any data construct you'd like, as long as it is JSON-serializable. It's especially useful in a JSON heavy application or one that deals with a lot of javascript. **Example** (models.py): from django.db import models from jsonfield import JSONField class Sequence(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=25) list = JSONField() **Example** (shell): fib = Sequence(name='Fibonacci') fib.list = [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8] fib.save() fib = Sequence.objects.get(name='Fibonacci') fib.list.append(13) print fib.list [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13] fib.get_list_json() "[0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]" *Note:* You can only save JSON-serializable data. Also, dates will be converted to string-timestamps, because I don't really know what better to do with them. Finally, I'm not sure how to interact with forms yet, so that realm is a bit murky.

  • models
  • model
  • json
  • db
  • field
  • json-field
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If modulo template tag

Usage: {% ifmodulo forloop.counter 4 0 %} <!-- do something --> {% else %} <!-- do something else --> {% endifmodulo %} or {% ifnotmodulo 5 3 %} <!-- do something --> {% else %} <!-- do something else --> {% endifmodulo %} When the third parameter does not exist, it is assumed you're checking for values different than 0.

  • template
  • tag
  • if
  • modulo
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cron/console bootstrap django

Call this function as the first thing in your cron, or console script; it will bootstrap Django, and allow you to access all of the Django modules from the console, with out using 'python manage.py shell' Examples: # A script within your django project. from django_bootstrap import bootstrap bootstrap(__file__) --- or --- # A cron script located outside of your django project from django_bootstrap import bootstrap bootstrap("/path/to/your/project/root/")

  • django
  • console
  • cron
  • bootstrap
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page_link

To make page links like below: Prev 1 ... 23 24 25 26 27 ...221 Next Use like this , "bbs_posting_list" is the name of url {% page_link "bbs_posting_list" page pages %}

  • page
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Template tag to sort a list of links

Sorts a list of HTML anchor tags based on the anchor's contents. This is useful, for example, when combining a static list of links with a dynamic list that needs to be sorted alphabetically. It ignores all attributes of the HTML anchor. {% load anchorsort %} {% anchorsort %} <a href="afoo.jpg">Trip to Fiji</a> <a href="bfoo.jpg">Doe, a deer, a female deer!</a> {% for link in links %} <a class="extra" href="{{ link.href|escape }}">{{ link.name|escape }}</a> {% endfor %} {% endanchorsort %} Note that case (capital vs. lower) is ignored. Any HTMl within the node itself **will not be removed**, so sorting `<a>Bar</a><a><strong>Foo</strong><a/>` will sort as `<a><strong>Foo</strong></a><a>Bar</a>` because `<` is logically less than `b`.

  • template
  • sort
  • anchor
  • a
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I18n URLs via Middleware

This is an example middleware that is highly inspired by how Symfony handles [i18n in URLs](http://www.symfony-project.com/book/trunk/13-I18n-and-L10n#Changing the Culture for a User). You basically set a (?P<dj_culture>[\w-]+) pattern in your URL and this middleware will determine the language to use for the i18n toolkit for Django. It also removes the dj_culture parameter after dealing with it, so that you don't have to change all the views you want this middleware to work with.

  • middleware
  • i18n
  • url
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