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Dynamically adding a form to a Django formset with Ajax

I'd like to be able to automatically add new forms to a Django formset with an ajax function. I.e., the user clicks an "add" button and some javascript will add a new form (which is part of the ...
320
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23answers
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Does Django Scale?

I'm building a web application with Django. The reasons I chose Django were: I wanted to work with free/open-source tools I like Python and feel it's a "long term" language, whereas regarding Ruby I ...
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Extending the User model with custom fields in Django

What's the best way to extend the User model (bundled with Django's authentication app) with custom fields? I would also possibly like to use the email as the username (for authentication purposes). ...
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8answers
27k views

Having Django serve downloadable files

I want users on the site to be able to download files whose paths are obscured so they cannot be directly downloaded. For instance, I'd like the URL to be something like this, ...
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5answers
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Converting string into datetime

Short and simple. I've got a huge list of date-times like this as strings: Jun 1 2005 1:33PM Aug 28 1999 12:00AM I'm going to be shoving these back into proper datetime fields in a database so I ...
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9answers
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How to add to the pythonpath in windows 7?

I have a directory which hosts all my django app here: "C:\My_Projects". I want to add this directory to my pythonpath so I can call the apps directly. I have right clicked My Computer > ...
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8answers
8k views

How do I access the child classes of an object in django without knowing the name of the child class?

In Django, when you have a parent class and multiple child classes that inherit from it you would normally access a child through parentclass.childclass1_set or parentclass.childclass2_set, but what ...
60
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7answers
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Django Passing Custom Form Parameters to Formset

I have a Django Form that looks like this: class ServiceForm(forms.Form): option = forms.ModelChoiceField(queryset=ServiceOption.objects.none()) rate = ...
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3answers
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Django dynamic model fields

I'm working on a multi-tenanted application in which some users can define their own data fields (via the admin) to collect additional data in forms and report on the data. The latter bit makes ...
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12answers
53k views

Using Django time/date widgets in custom form

How can I use the nifty JavaScript date and time widgets that the default admin uses with my custom view? I have looked through the Django forms documentation, and it briefly mentions ...
121
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16answers
26k views

Django - Set Up A Scheduled Job?

I've been working on a web app using Django, and I'm curious if there is a way to schedule a job to run periodically. Basically I just want to run through the database and make some ...
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6answers
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How do I filter ForeignKey choices in a Django ModelForm?

Say I have the following in my models.py: class Company(models.Model): name = ... class Rate(models.Model): company = models.ForeignKey(Company) name = ... class Client(models.Model): ...
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9answers
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Programmatically saving image to Django ImageField

Ok, I've tried about near everything and I cannot get this to work. I have a Django model with an ImageField on it I have code that downloads an image via HTTP (tested and works) The image is saved ...
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4answers
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Django equivalent for count and group by

I have a model that looks like this: class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=60) class Item(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=60) category = ...
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2answers
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How to stream an HttpResponse with Django

I'm trying to get the 'hello world' of streaming responses working for Django (1.2). I figured out how to use a generator and the yield function. But the response still not streaming. I suspect ...

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