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Django Code Repetition due to Multiple objects in JSON
I have the following code which works as expected i.e saves data to the db as I would like it to, however, there is a lot of code repetition and I am unable to find a way to shorten the code
I have ...
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Filter based on different criteria until a match is found
We get the most relevant feedback about a doctor depending on the speciality, intervention_type and ...
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Django, filtering on reverse foreign key
We have Projects, which can each have many Entries. We want a report where we see the completion_date of the newest Entry associated with a given Project. However, ...
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Two steps changing email system Django + Redis
I created a two steps changing email system. Firstly I show You the concept how it should work and then the code. I am using Django and React.
Main question: is it a good way to do it? Is it fine to ...
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Is this the right way to write 'add contact' view
I'm using DRF. I have a User model and contacts field in it and contacts are also User instances.
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Reset user's password fine
I wrote a code to reset user password. I just want to ask if it is a good and secure way to do this? Can I make any improvements here?
I use ...
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Get Gzip file from endpoint, extract data and add to database
I currently have a script that fires a request to an API endpoint which returns a csv.gzip file - which roughly contains 75,000 rows and 15 columns. I download this ...
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Django form for product stock, where products from the same batch must be merged
Here is the context first. I have a 'Stock' table, in which I record all the stocks with as information: the product, the ...
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Summing categories of financial records per month in a query
My program is working properly but I'm unconfortable with code repetition.
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Django data migration - worked, but far from performant
Background: I am learning web dev and decided on the Django framework as an excuse to learn Python at the same time. (Background is stats with lots of R and ...
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Python module to generate context for Django template using data requested from API
As part of a university assignment, I have been tasked with populating and rendering a provided Django template with COVID-19-related quarantine data retrieved from a government API. To challenge ...
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Django User Model to authenticate using email address and password
This is my second Django project for an actual client and I want some review on one of my important models.
This model will be responsible for authenticating users using their E-Mail Addresses and ...
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Create a more efficient and performant csv import function with Python Django
I am creating a website for users to track their Magic the Gathering inventory. I have created some functionality to import a csv to easily add cards to their inventory. The functionality works as ...
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Execute a third party API call for every object in my queryset in a Django ListView
I have a ListView that displays every customer (class Cliente in my code) of a company.
Every ...
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Get list of claims based on priorities
I have written the following function which works as expected but I still see there is some room for improving its readability
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Generate breadcrumbs from URL in Django
For Django sites with URLs structured in a hierarchical way I found it helpful to have an app to quickly transform an URL like ...
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Wanted to eliminate the repetition in the classes created to reduce duplication
Can some one help me on how to eliminate repetition to reduce duplication score on the below classes created in the code
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processing webhook request coming from a 3rd party application
I need some help to evaluate whether I am doing it right. The scenario is, a 3rd party application is sending a webhook request after a successful payment but the problem is that sometimes this ...
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Logical next step in Django newsfeed web app
I'm hoping to get feedback on my current code from someone more experienced in Django, and in the concepts I'm trying to implement. Let me preface by saying that I am a novice to Django. This is my ...
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Django Models for an ESL school
I am working on building a management interface for an ESL (English as a Second Language) institute, basically it is a language school where people learn English.
I have prepared my models for each ...
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Managing friend requests on a social media website in Django
So i created a social media website in django and here is how i managed accepting friend requests and showing friends posts in home page.
Would it be better to do this operation in models.py file, ...
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Email verification resend implementation Django
I'm trying to build an email verification for user signup using CreateView. This view check whether the user is a new or already existing inactive user? and resend ...
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Find best candidates in efficient way, Django
I'm beginner in django and python. I have models :
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Global Dictionary Class
For a Django-Server I use several custom Error-Codes, error-titles and descriptions, possibly other fields might follow.
I'm using right now a basic global dictionary.
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eLearning webapp made with Django
I've been working on probably my biggest project yet, and I'd like you guys to give me some feedback on the code I wrote so far.
It's an eLearning app which offers users a host of functionalities to ...
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Set logged-in USER in a Form requiring Current User Credentials
Currently, I can set the the current_user in the views.py for a form, which requires the user...
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How can I refactor the validation code to minimize it?
I am using Django Rest Framework and below is the code of one of the API Endpoints. The code creates generates the PUBLIC and SECRET Values based on Stellar SDK.
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django multiple if else refactor
I have a function with multiple if else statements that I'm trying to simplify in Django
Is there a pattern or maybe a better modeling approach that I could use here?
The idea behind is to have a ...
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Handling System Check message identifiers with Django
Django implements a System Check framework that enables apps to perform checks on settings, runtime, etc. When creating an app, one can plug checks with the framework by following some requirements, ...
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Mapping column names and values of a csv using another csv
I have two csv files, pricat.csv which contains objects I need to populate my DB with, and mapping.csv which specifies how the ...
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Google Mailer app inside Django using OAuth 2.0
I have built this Django Package which is an alternative for sending mail to users using Gmail API. Everything is working fine. But the verify(self, request) method inside ...
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Django Calendar Model
I am building a doctor appointment app with Django and Django Rest Framework. The app will have the functionality for secretaries to add appointments to a Doctor's calendar, and each Doctor may have ...
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Twitter contact scraper with Tweepy & Django
I created a project for academic purposes that works on Twitter data. It should:
Get all friends and follows of the user
Store them in MongoDB
Display them in a table
I'm using django + plain HTML, ...
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List some things that to make it less verbose and more robust
I am quite new in django forms. I am woking on problem where in function name generate_outage_form passed two parameters name settings and segment Now I have to make function less verbose and more ...
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Test django URLs
I started learning Django and now I want to write some tests for my application. After reading some blog posts and watching youtube tutorials I wrote tests for URLs. Look at below.
urls.py
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Xero API Client in Django
I'm not actually that new to writing Python. But I've no formal training and have only learnt to build applications to solve problems for my job out of necessity. Starting to bring my existing skills ...
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Model and form validation in class based view
In an app which it is possible to transfer money between accounts I have the following logic:
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Command Line Utility for Starting Django Projects and Apps with Custom Files
What I'm Doing
I'm writing a command line utility for starting Django projects and apps with custom files.
The custom files build upon what Django offers, to make sure things like a custom auth user ...
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Keeping history of Django model (by using memoization?)
I'm working on a Django project for which I'll need to store the historic information of many models.
So far, I'm using the following strategy:
Memoize the relevant values in ...
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How to eliminate repetitive serializers and API Viewsets in Django Rest Framework
I built an backend using Django and the django-rest-framework and realized that a lot of the code snippets (mainly classes) are similar. Is there any better way? I tried to wrap them into a very ...
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Scraping weather conditions for mountain peeks
I have built a website in Django in which I tried for the first time to create a complex app. It's an app that scrapes weather conditions on a peak in mountains, which are 17. I wanted to show a ...
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Python REST API and Mongo - Aggregation Pipeline/Stage classes
This has been my approach for "simplifying" MongoDB aggregation queries in a pythonic syntax - was my intent, at the very least:
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Best practice for URL's architectural Design in Django [closed]
I have been designing websites with Django for a while and I have also designed various sites. But here is a question that comes to mind at the beginning of any new project:
What is the best URLs ...
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Make django, weasyprint code object oriented
Please ignore the comments in the code for the purpose of reviewing. I just require tips on using SOLID principles and how classes can be used in this code.Comments in the code are for mapping the ...
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Product inventory database with attributes and variants
I have design a model for product apps. This is the first time I am trying to create a product's database schema and then model it in Django. My code handles the following:
A product type can have ...
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Use django engine to fill in a .html file on storage (no template) and use weasyPrint to convert it to PDF
I 'm new here. I wrote the following django code. I 'm opening, closing files here and saving them temporarily and deleting them. I tried to use Python's tempfile and was getting Permission Error and ...
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Statistics function
I have created a database using Django. I have a small statistics page as shown below. Can I improve this code?
View file
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One form for multiple models in Django
I must allow user to add city, state and country if it is not already present in the drop-down. Then I must create the respective model instances and then update the city in the userprofile. The below ...
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Am I dynamic filtering correctly in Django?
I needed a way to get URL parameters and put them and their values into a query set's .filter() if they exist. After a day of piecing together information from the ...
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