Django is a Python-based framework for creating web applications.
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Backup MySQL database for Django projects
I have a usual Django application with a single MySQL database. The purpose of this shell script is to backup a MySQL database every midnight by crontab and check that everything goes right.
The ...
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Generating a unique ID for a filename
This function generates a unique id for my files, which will be stored in the database to reference them. It returns the id if unique, if not, it generates a new one. My separate file server can then ...
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Using mocking to test that a Django view renders as expected
I have a Django view that ends with this...
return render(request, 'define/see_all.html', context)
I have mocked the render function and
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oAuth2 token creation when registering new user
I am working on Django Rest Framework for backend to develop android app. My project is about Food Delivery System.
My app has user login and registration feature. I preferred oAuth2 for token based ...
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Speedup Django model
My goal is to calculate the discount price dynamically.
I have two models: Product and Sales.
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Method to return the lowest filename number not being used
I have a Django site where users upload and have the option to delete files. There will be a lot of files that will have the same logical name so I append numbers to them:
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Django class based view URL API
I kind of started making an API for my site in a Django class based view because it seemed logical and now it has gotten quite large and unruly and I am starting to wonder if I am doing this correctly....
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Model design for Online Food order app
I have been trying to develop online food order application. I have taken the concept of zomato.com where a user or say owner registers his/her restaurant. After adding the restaurant, an executive ...
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Dynamic Official Receipt increment algorithm
I made a function that would automatically generate official receipt for POS. it is able to accept format such as xxx, xxx-xxx, xx-xx.
But my code is really messy and horrible and it needs review. I ...
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Profile creation
I was creating a view with Django that would create a user profile for a website and this is what I came up with:
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One user profile for company and person
I'm creating a web page which has two types of users with very similar permissions: Person and Company. The main difference is ...
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Django 1.9: Compare two different approaches of creating 2 types of User
I'm trying to figure out which would be more efficient way to create 2 types of Users in Django (v 9). I've add a question on StackOverflow. User Sardorberk ...
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Rendering a confirm page before saving form to db
I would like to hear your opinions on this approach. The thing I do is that I have one page where the user can fill the form - order. I want user to fill the form, then click on the 'next' button. ...
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Creating multiple objects using two forms
I would appreciate if you check my code and tell me what should I change. The code finally works but it could be much clear in my opinion.
This is all about creating an ...
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Django controller method to list the top characters, guilds, and killers
I've been reading the Chapter 8 of this book.
Here's the view I'm currently coding. It list all characters/guilds according to the type of URL.
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simple form validation
i've just started to learn python /django ..
im coming from php world ...i mostly struggle with None values which are new to me .. in php i mostly did my boll checking with true/false but in python ...
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Idiomatic Django conditional filter queryset
I am sharing a viewset between two types of routes in Django: one is a nested route (/users/:id/comments/:id/), and a regular route (...
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Validating Email Addresses without DB
I wanted to put this out here and see if there were any security vulnerabilities that I'm not seeing. Also, if I can improve performance without sacrificing security, that's always a plus. Thanks in ...
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Get time slots based on multiple workshops
I have a list of Workshops, each having open days (Monday, Tuesday etc.) and open time and close time (which will be same for each day). Now, Based on the current time, I need to find out next 7 days ...
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Loading data from a text file into the database as fast as possible
I'm building a Django (1.8.12) application that parses a .bc3 file (Standard Interchange Format for Databases of Construction and Real State) and loads all the data into the database (PostgreSQL 9.3.9)...
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Auto registering class registry
I built this auto registering registry to look into a package and import all modules and register any classes that are a subclass of a base class. I use it as a registry for a model's choices in ...
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improvement of a database register function
Here is a function in a django rest api, that takes data in json and registers a category for a given website. I'd like to merge two try...except parts that check <...
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LRU caching decorator that caches in the instance and in a shared cache
I needed a caching decorator, that could be used with methods and functions, that could take typed args and kwargs, and that was Python 2.7 compatible. Therefore I started with a backport of the <...
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Selecting all posts created by user that actual user follows
I have a view that displays posts created by users that actual logged in user follows. It works, by I think the way I've done it isn't good.
BTW, UserProfile is my default user model.
UserFollower ...
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Registration in Django
Can you say, is this a bad code for registration in Django? Do I need to fix something or use a pip instead? (I am learning)
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FIFO inventory allocation method
I am an owner of a small industrial business startup and I am learning to write software in order to efficiently keep track of our inventory and finances, as our needs have outgrown the capabilities ...
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Handling SMS replies to register/unregister phone numbers
I'm working on a Django Twilio app, and I believe it's coming along well. I just want to improve my code writing skills. How can I improve the below code?
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Object oriented architecture with an image processing code
This code is python 3X code (in django).
It takes an instance of user entry, and process images: it creates a resized version of original image, 2 thumbs, saves all, and update instance fields to ...
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Bank account model implementation in Django
There is a draft of my models.py. What can I do for code quality and readability increase?
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Model classes for a quiz app in Django
I am creating simple quiz app in Django. It works, but I think that way I've done it is not the best. I have Exam detail view, which display questions related to that exam and answers for these ...
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Delivering groups of online reports
As part of my present project, I revived the task to deliver group of online reports. As per a report's complexity and best performance on my radar, I decided to write SQL view on PostgreSQL and next ...
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Mapping different classes to the same database table
I have several very similar subclasses that I (think I) want to be stored in the same database table. Most of the fields are identical, with each subclass adding 1 or 2 custom fields. My code is using ...
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Ad filtering in Angular factory
I'm an 'old school' programmer (C, C++), and I have step-by-step, algorithmic thinking. I'm writing some code in Angular + Django and I know that this code is ugly but I don't have any idea how to ...
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SOAP request in a while loop
I am developing a service where the user need to sign the seller agreement with Mobile BankID (Swedish e-sign service). To make this work I need to make SOAP request to get the progress status of the ...
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Django search method
I have done this small piece of code used to search for a given word across several fields of a Django model.
Goal was to have first entries equals to the word, then entries starting by the world ...
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Serving a growing audio file with Django
I would like to serve a growing audio file (raw PCM audio for now) with the possibility of seeking. I tried to manage it with Apache, but in the end wasn't able to achieve what I wanted.
Now I ...
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Platform to buy services, where you can receive notifications
I am developing a website, where people can buy services, also it has a notification system; I do this in views to show log in and sign up, on index.html.
views.py
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A web crawler for scraping images from stock photo websites
I created a web crawler that uses beautiful soup to crawl images from a website and scrape them to a database. in order to use it you have to create a class that inherits from Crawler and implements 4 ...
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How should I arrange my imports?
I inherited a project that has many imports. Is there any way to refactor it so that we don't have this many imports?
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Excluding an element from a dictionary
I was asked to change code that I maintain (but didn't write) for a learning management system that previously listed an examed course both under examed courses and other courses and now my task was ...
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Changing attributes in Django Objects outside of iteration
I'm adding three attributes to a Django QuerySet that represents a hierarchical tree structure:
a display_name which is added to all objects
the id of the object'...
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Updating multiple membership plan expiration dates at once
I have model action in RequestAdmin like this:
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Django view and template for a virtual zoo
I have a Django view and template that work together, but I think I probably did things in a crappy way. I basically have many dynamic values that I want to display on the page, and in two different ...
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Optimisation of a views.py for survey application
I have developed a small survey application in Django 1.6.2 which requires that the participants fill out a number of questions over 27 pages using a ...
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Optimisation of a forms.py for a survey application
This is my forms.py for a small survey application I am developing. I previously posted some of my models.py.
I am completely self-taught and am just looking for advice on how to improve. Any advice, ...
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Django Person Model created from forms.ModelForm
This is the current iteration of my first model of a Person. The model is populated by a survey application using forms.ModelForm and a ...
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Fetching BasicInfo, BillingInfo, and DocumentInfo objects
The repetition is super obvious here. How can I rewrite this code? I need one base method in which I pass a Django model, to call objects.filter, but I can't figure ...
