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Regular Expression Replace Template Filter

This will perform a regular expression search/replace on a string in your template. `{% load replace %}` `{{ mystring|replace:"/l(u+)pin/m\1gen" }}` If: `mystring = 'lupin, luuuuuupin, and luuuuuuuuuuuuupin are lè pwn'` then it will return: `mugen, muuuuuugen, and muuuuuuuuuuuuugen are lè pwn` The argument is in the following format: [delim char]regexp search[delim char]regexp replace

  • regex
  • regular-expressions
  • templates
  • filters
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Multilingual Models

A way to implement models with translatable content. The translatable field of the default language has no extension, like "title" and the translations have extensions postfixes "_<two-letter language code>", like "title_la" or "title_mn". Method get_title() in this case returns the translation of the currently chosen language or the title of the default language, if the translation is not set. The class XFieldList overrides the default list class and is used for modifying ordering and list_display settings according the chosen language. For example, when the German language is chosen, the list of translatable content objects will be ordered by German titles (not English). *At the time when the list of field names is assigned to ordering or list_display (at the import of the model), the currently chosen language is still not known. But the language is known when ordering and list_display lists are used in contributed administration or elsewhere.* The XFieldList returns the modified values of the passed-in list, when its methods/properties are triggered. XFieldList transforms field names ending "_" (except the ones beginning with "__", like "__str__") to appropriate translations according the currently chosen language. For example ['title_', 'content_', 'is_published'] will be changed to ['title', 'content', 'is_published'] for the English language and to ['title_lt', 'content_lt', 'is_published'] for the Lithuanian language. *The best practice is to put XFieldList into a separate file and import it from different apps whenever needed.* It's worth mentioning that one implementing this should also know about [Django internationalization](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/i18n/).

  • i18n
  • l10n
  • translations
  • multilingual
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Django-pagination with Bootstrap CSS

A quick django-pagination template fix to make it work with Bootstrap CSS Library 2.0. Usage: Install django-pagination and save the snippet in templates/pagination/pagination.html then {% paginate %} will work fine. See [Django-paginaation on Bootstrap CSS](http://ronbeltran.blogspot.com/2012/05/django-pagination-bootstrap-css.html)

  • django-pagination
  • bootsrap-css
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Auto-create Django admin user during syncdb

This avoids the frustrating step of having to set up a new admin user every time you re-initialize your database. Put this in any `models` module. In this example I use `common.models`. Adapted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1466827/

  • django
  • admin
  • user
  • syncdb
  • manage
  • automatic
  • adminuser
  • admin-user
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TwitterBackend

TwitterBackend is the twitter authentication backend. This backend makes use of OAuth based "Sign-in with Twitter" Configure your settings.py as per [Django - Specifying Authentication Backends](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/auth/#specifying-authentication-backends)

  • django
  • authentication
  • python
  • backend
  • twitter
  • oauth
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Ping All Search Engines

Nothing much to see here. Needed this little puppy for work and figured I and others will need it for other projects. Enjoy!

  • search
  • google
  • all
  • ping
  • engines
  • yahoo
  • live
  • ask
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Validate by file content type and size

A simple way to handle file validation by checking for a proper content_type and by making sure that the file does not go over its limit upload size limit. In the example I am checking to make sure the file is an image or a video file then I check to make sure that the file is below the max upload limit. if conditions are not met, then a validation error is raised

  • forms
  • validation
  • filefield
  • file
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minimal nginx conf to split get/post requests

After a point the sql server becomes the bottleneck in lots of web application, and to scale, master-slave replication with single master, multiple slave is recommended. This setup with nginx can be used to accomplish traffic distribution between master and slave based on request method.

  • middleware
  • nginx
  • loadbalancing
  • master-slave
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send_html_mail

There are many versions, this is the one I like. This is quite generic, can auto generate text version of the mail if required.

  • html-mail
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Cachable Class Method Decorator

This decorator does automatic key generation and simplifies caching. Can be used with any class, not just model subclasses. Also see [Stales Cache Decorator](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1131/).

  • cache
  • decorator
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Email Attachment

Django documentation is lacking in giving an example for sending an email with attachment. Hopefully this code helps those who are trying to send email with attachments

  • email
  • attachment
  • fileinput
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Author: sri
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Upload, Progressbar with sessions

This script is an adaptation from http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/678/ . Here, it doesnt use the cache middleware but relies on sessions. The script set a session cookie to identify the upload and track it to make it available for a progress bar like this one : http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/679/ . Note the progress bar cannot work with development server as it is single-threaded. Tested with apache/mod_python and mod_wsgi. any comments appreciated ;)

  • upload
  • handler
  • sessions
  • progressbar
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Expire page from cache

A simple helper function that clears the cache for a given URL, assuming no headers. Probably best used when wired up to a model's post_save event via signals. See [message to django-users mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/msg/b077ec2e97697601) for background.

  • cache
  • caching
  • expiration
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