Win32 Read Registry Tag
Sometimes you need to grab information from the registry. This will only work if you have admin rights on the box you're querying.
- win32
- registry
Snippet List
gettext parachut for python 2.3 with unicode and utf-8
I ran into this because my development system is django on python 2.4 and I deploy to 2.3. It's a corner case where you use gettext, the \# -\*- coding: utf-8 -\*- header and want to have a consistant style in your file. It is encouraged to use the unicode marker like u'string', but this does not work for __str__ methods of your models as they are called by the ``str'' function and that function again can not handle unicode. It would be really nice to have all unicode intern and only do the appropriated encoding on the output. Anyway. With this little helper you can clutter your files with _('stirng of heart with € äüöß') ... With the coding directive in the header python 2.4 and gettext can handle this on 2.3 though they can't. So this script adds a parachut to the gettext wrapper that kicks in if gettext is failing.
- unicode
- gettext
- utf-8
- 2.4
- 2.3
Hackish Way to Execute on manage.py Action
It's cheap, hackish, and dirty, but it works. \\o/ Lines 19 & 20 are what you should edit.
- manage.py
- hack
clear session table
This bash script clears the session variables prior to running the development server.
- session
- startup
Dynamically specify TEMPLATE_DIRS
In your site’s settings.py module (in your site root), TEMPLATE_DIRS takes absolute paths. Here is a way to dynamically determine the absolute path to the application directory so you only have to specify relative paths within settings.py. Obviously, replace “application_directory” with the name of your application’s directory.
- configuration
Serving null files
Sometimes you have to serve null files. This quick hacky generic view lets you do that. The best example of that is robots.txt, I want my robots.txt to always be empty, at least for now. The other example would be favicon.ico, but that's more often used to actually fill a purpose.
- null
- files
- views