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Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database. What it doesn’t abstracts, and doesn’t try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them.
Consider a hypothetical HR department, which wants you to build [...]
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Summary: How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using Wordpress as example. The completed code is available at github or you can see some screnshots
Though there are quite a few good Django blog applications, our blog is based on Wordpress. A number of plugin’s make moving to a Django based app a bad decision for [...]
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Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms.
Basic form
Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it.
Ans. Create a simple form.
class UserForm(forms.Form): username = forms.CharField() [...]
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There are some tools and apps which we use with almost all apps we write, and in particular which, we used for dinette. Here they are broken into useful during development, and (also) useful post development.
During Development
Ipython and ipdb South Django test utils Django extensions Django debug toolbar
Ipython and ipdb
Ipython is a enhanced shell for python. Ipdb similarly add extra capacity [...]
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twitter ready version:
We have released a Django forum application, with some cool features not in any other Django based forum. You can get it here or see it in action.
blog version
There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer is “none [...]
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What is bpython?
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system.
says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation and such stuff.
Unlike iPython, which implements then entire shell functions and emulates the standard python shell, and adds enhancements, bpython just adds features on top of the [...]
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Foss.in is without doubt India’s largest FOSS technology conference. Lakshman gave a talk today on “Python metaclasses and how Django uses them”. Here are the slides from that talk.
Doing magic with python metaclassesView more documents from Usware Technologies.
[Edit] Some reactions, http://twitter.com/jaideep2588/status/6295483833 http://twitter.com/kunalbharati/status/6296572939
And the talk images, http://twitpic.com/rxhn7
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Django has three builtin template loaders which are used to get the templates for rendering.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( ‘django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source’, ‘django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source’, # ‘django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source’, )
Writing your template loader is a awfuly easy. It is a callable which
Returns a tuple of (openfile, filename) if it can find the template. Raise TemplateDoesNotExist if [...]
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This is announcement about our new work, Django Gotchas, a teeny tiny ebook about commonly occurring gotchas with Django. Here is the readme copied from the project.
Django-gotchas is a collections of gotchas which happen commonly when you are working with Django. They are some errors which I have made commonly or seen others do, these [...]
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