FTP storage backend
Simple FTP storage class. See description at the beginning of the snippet.
- storage
- ftp
Snippet List
Friendly ID
Invoice numbers like "0000004" are a little unprofessional in that they expose how many sales a system has made, and can be used to monitor the rate of sales over a given time. They are also harder for customers to read back to you, especially if they are 10 digits long. This is simply a perfect hash function to convert an integer (from eg an ID AutoField) to a unique number. The ID is then made shorter and more user-friendly by converting to a string of letters and numbers that wont be confused for one another (in speech or text). To use it: import friendly_id class MyModel(models.Model): invoice_id = models.CharField(max_length=6, null=True, blank=True, unique=True) def save(self, *args, **kwargs): super(MyModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs) # Populate the invoice_id if it is missing if self.id and not self.invoice_id: self.invoice_id = friendly_id.encode(self.id) super(MyModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs) if self.id and not self.invoice_id When an object from this model is saved, an invoice ID will be generated that does not resemble those surrounding it. For example, where you are expecting millions of invoices the IDs generated from the AutoField primary key will be: obj.id obj.invoice_id 1 TTH9R 2 45FLU 3 6ACXD 4 8G98W 5 AQ6HF 6 DV3TY ... 9999999 J8UE5 The functions are deterministic, so running it again sometime will give the same result, and generated strings are unique for the given range (the default max is 10,000,000). Specifying a higher range allows you to have more IDs, but all the strings will then be longer. You have to decide which you need: short strings or many strings :-) This problem could have also been solved using a random invoice_id generator, but that might cause collisions which cost time to rectify, especially when a decent proportion of the available values are taken (eg 10%). Anyhow, someone else has now already written this little module for you, so now you don't have to write your own :-)
- field
- id
Full Featured Gravatar Tag
Simply returns a created gravatar url based on input. Creates the url utilizing the full gravatar url inputs as defined at http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/url.
- tag
- simple_tag
- avatar
- gravatar
Using Django Generics with Jinja2
Jinja2, while a great replacement for Django templates, is not a drop-in replacement for it. I wanted to use Photologue with my Jinja templates, but because Photologue uses Django generics, so I decided to see if I could use Jinja2 with generics, and then only modify the templates. It was a bit of work, but I seem to have done it. Django generics can take template_loader as an option, so if you have the same interface, things should just work. The template must accept RequestContext as an argument to render(), so here we subclass jinja2.Template and when it receives Django's RequestContext object, it creates a flat dictionary from it, which jinja2 can work with.
- django
- jinja
- jinja2
HTTP authentication using your ModelBackend
Save this file as httpauth.py. This example should help you guys out for sure. from httpauth import * @logged_in_or_basicauth() def temp_view(request): pass Feel free to contact me in case you need help. By [Dipankar sarkar](http://dipankar.name) [email protected]
- django
- http
- authentication
- login
Child aware model inheritance
Base models aren't aware of its inherited models, here is a quick solution to access child models from the base model.
- model
- inheritance
- child
- content-type
Securely Signed S3 Links With Expiration
I couldn't find a Python implementation of this, so I threw this class together real quick. This will let you share "private" files on S3 via a signed request. It will also have an expiration on the link, so it is only valid until a certain time period. Example Usage: s3 = SecureS3('AWS_ACCESS_KEY', 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY') s3.get_auth_link('your_bucket', 'your_file') That would return your secure link. eg, http://your_bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/your_file?AWSAccessKeyId=AWS_ACCESS_KEY&Expires=1226198694&Signature=IC5ifWgiuOZ1IcWXRltHoETYP1A%3D
- s3
- secure
Twisted protocol for receiving logging module messages over a socket
When using Python's logging module in a concurrent environment (e.g. mod_python), messages get dropped by the standard file-based handlers. The [SocketHandler](http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/node414.html) allows you to send logging messages to a remote socket. This snippet provides code for listening for such messages and writing them out to a log file. The final log file is configured as a standard logging file-based handler.
- logging
- twisted
Jinja2 integration + application specific functions/filters/tests
Jinja2 is an alternative template system that can be plugged into django. It offers greator flexibility in presentation logic; if you find the django template system too restrictive, you should have a look at Jinja2 (The syntax is very similar). In Jinja, you don't need costum tags (most of the time), because you can call functions and pass them parameters too! The only problem is that you cannot "load" functions from the template, this "loading" must be done by the code that renders the template. Same goes for filters and tests. If you need only two or three functions/filters, no problem, you can manually add them to the Environment object; but this method doesn't really scale with real-life webapps. This module/snippet offers a solution by allowing the user to define application-specific functions and filters and load them into the jinja2 environment automatically. Here's how to use this: 1. Install Jinja2 (for a quick & dirty installation, you can just put the jinja2 folder in a folder that's in PYTHONPATH) 2. Save this python module somewhere and call it something meaningful (I have it as jinja.py in my project directory) 3. Whenever you need to respond (an HttpResponse) with a template that's rendered by jinja, import this module and call `return jrespond( template_name, context )` 4. Any filters or functions you define in any of your applications will be readily available inside the template (see the documentation in code)
- template
- templates
- jinja
- template-tags
- jinja2
Annotate queryset with comment count
Code example queryset = Event.objects.all().select_related('user', 'category') queryset = comments_extra_count(queryset)
- comment
- count
- queryset
- annotate
SignedForm: CSRF-protect forms with a hidden token field
This form subclass helps protect against cross-site request forgery by adding a hidden field named `csrf_token` to forms. The form must be initialized with the request as a keyword argument, both with and without POST data: my_form = MySignedForm(request=request) ... my_form = MySignedForm(request.POST, request=request) Upon validation, a `PermissionDenied` exception will be raised if forgery is detected. If any security details have been overlooked in this recipe, please leave a comment.
- forms
- csrf
autotranslate po files using google translate
Save to autotranslate.py, run using python autotranslate.py pofile inputlang outputlang, eg. python autotranslate.py path_to_blank_fr_lang.po en fr, to translate to french. Some known bugs: * Doesn't handle some line returns properly * Block translations aren't formated correctly in the translation. If anyone has any issues or fixes please post to the comments. Of course the output shouldn't be used as substitute to a proper translation.
- translation
Something like list_detail generic view but returns PDF document instead
This should work as a `django.views.generic.list_detail` generic view but will produce PDF version of given template. This code is merged code from perenzo's [example](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/659/) and code from `django.views.generic.list_detail` module. `pisa` package is required from (http://www.htmltopdf.org/download.html) with `html5lib` package and Reportlab Toolkit 2.1+ NOTE: this is code for Django 0.96. In Django 1.0 change in line 3: ObjectPaginator to Paginator
- generic-views
- html
- css
render_partial
Works much like an inclusion_tag but allows the template_name to be given as an argument or defaults to partials/MODELNAME.html where MODELNAME is 'got' from the context object you want to render. Its very rough so improvements very welcome! It would be nice to be able to pass new context variables as template tag [keyword] arguments for use in the template to be rendered so you basically have a template tag equivalent for render_to_string... Example usage in a template: {% render_partial post %} or {% render_partial post partials/super_post.html %}
- template
- tag
djangopath: conveniently set sys.path and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE
In the past, whenever I had a script that I wanted to properly configure the settings for, I would use something like the following idiom at the top of the script: import sys, os; dirname = os.path.dirname # sys.path.insert(0, dirname(dirname(__file__))) sys.path.insert(0, dirname(__file__)) os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myapp.settings' Notice that this is a relative setting to `__file__` variable in the script. The djangopath function is an attempt to do away with the above such that I can now write the following: from lib import djangopath; djangopath(up=2, settings='myapp.settings') This seems to work for me, but it assumes that you are packaging your script inside your projects/apps. If they are elsewhere then you may need to resort to another method (e.g. absolute paths, etc.) AK
- settings
- path