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Better slugify

Better slugify function for national characters. Source of original script: http://trac.django-fr.org/browser/site/trunk/project/links/slughifi.py?rev=47

  • unicode
  • slugify
  • slughifi
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easy signal registration

Django signals can live anywhere you like. I like them in *app/signals.py* file. This snippet imports signal modules from all installed apps.

  • registration
  • signal
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Coalesce for F()

Updating fields that allow for NULLs must take care about those NULLs. Use case: `Message.objects.filter(id=1).update(price=CF('price', 0) + 7)` `Message.objects.filter(id=1).update(status=CF('status') // 's')` Works for postgres. Supposedly works for mysql. Didn't test with other backends.

  • coalesce
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Simple random file CAPTCHA

This is a snippet for a simple CAPTCHA. A random image from a list of images is shown, and the form checks if the correct solution was given. Normally I would use django-simple-captcha or maybe reCAPTCHA, but in this case I wanted to have a number of fixed images, nothing dynamically generated. I wanted to include the contact form in multiple pages, most of which are `direct_to_template` generic views. However, passing the random image to the `extra_context` of `direct_to_template` didn't work, because the value was only initialized once on startup. Therefore I pass the list of possible choices to `extra_context`, and use the template filter `|random` to select one image. The form's clean method will check if the correct solution was given when `form.is_valid()` is called in the view. If not, the view will display a new captcha. Of course there are other, more elegant solutions like a custom template tag or overriding the generic view, but this works fine for me. Using a fixed number of images will probably not provide good protection for sites that are of much interest to spammers, but for smaller sites it should be sufficient. You can see the CAPTCHA in action at [http://www.lackieren-in-polen.de/](http://www.lackieren-in-polen.de/)

  • captcha
  • random
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Parse TemplateTag Variables Safely

Often times I want to be able to interchangeably pass either literal strings or context variables to a custom templatetag. This function first checks a string for the existence of surrounding quotes and uses the string inside. If the string didn't explicitly use quotes it checks to see if it can resolve the string as a context variable. As a fallback the function will simply return the full string. Example: {% get_latest_by_tag 'django' %} {% get_latest_by_tag object.tag %}

  • templatetag
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Decode HTML Template Tag

This is useful if you have a string that is html encoded (i.e. "<p>Hello world!</p>") and you want to do something more complex than just display it as html, such as using the striptags filter.

  • template
  • tag
  • django
  • templatetag
  • html
  • decode
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mkrange - create a range() inside a template

Accepts the same arguments as the 'range' builtin and creates a list containing the result of 'range'. Syntax: {% mkrange [start,] stop[, step] as context_name %} For example: {% mkrange 5 10 2 as some_range %} {% for i in some_range %} {{ i }}: Something I want to repeat\n {% endfor %} Produces: 5: Something I want to repeat 7: Something I want to repeat 9: Something I want to repeat

  • templatetag
  • range
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Truncate string after a given number of chars keeping whole words

Truncates a string after a given length, keeping the last word complete. This filter is more precise than the default `truncatewords` filter. Words length vary too much, 10 words may result in 40 or 70 characters, so cutting by character count makes more sense. There is a [blog post](http://ricobl.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/templates-django-filtro-truncatewords-melhorado/) about this snippet (in Portuguese).

  • template
  • filter
  • templatetag
  • truncate
  • templatetags
  • words
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Author: rix
  • 5
  • 6

Test Suite URL Coverage

This custom test suite runner will record all of the URLs accessed during your test suite. It will compare it to the list of all URLs you have configured for your site and produce a report of any URLs missed. It requires that all URLs are named (using the ``name=`` parameter). To use is, set the ``TEST_RUNNER`` variable in your configuration to this class. You can also define ignored URLs. For example, to filter out the admin URLs, you can use: IGNORED_COVERAGE_URLS = ['^admin/', '^admin/doc/']

  • urlconf
  • testing
  • testrunner
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SMTP sink server: prettier output

A modified version of the original SMTP sink server: [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/96/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/96/). I've added some nicer, more verbose terminal messages.

  • email
  • debug
  • smtp
  • server
  • eml
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