I am trying to get started with South. I had an existing database and I added South (syncdb, schemamigration –initial). Then, I updated models.py to add a field and ran ./manage.py schemamigration myapp –auto. It seemed to find the field and said I could apply this with ./manage.py migrate myapp. But, doing that gave the … Read more
How do I use pagination with Django 1.3? The documentation is not very clear on this. What goes to my views.py? What goes to my template? What goes to my URLconf file? 3 Answers 3
I am storing a phone number in model like this: phone_number = models.CharField(max_length=12) The user would enter a phone number and I would use the phone number for SMS authentication. This application would be used globally. So I would also need a country code. Is CharField a good way to store a phone number? And, … Read more
I have the following: answers = Answer.objects.filter(id__in=[answer.id for answer in answer_set.answers.all()]) then later: for i in range(len(answers)): # iterate through all existing QuestionAnswer objects for existing_question_answer in existing_question_answers: # if an answer is already associated, remove it from the # list of answers to save if answers[i].id == existing_question_answer.answer.id: answers.remove(answers[i]) # doesn’t work existing_question_answers.remove(existing_question_answer) I … Read more
I just want to drop the favicon.ico in my staticfiles directory and then have it show up in my app. How can I accomplish this? I have placed the favicon.ico file in my staticfiles directory, but it doesn’t show up and I see this in my log: 127.0.0.1 – – [21/Feb/2014 10:10:53] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1” … Read more
I’ve tried something like this, it does not work. class PostSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer): class Meta: model = Post def save(self): user = self.context[‘request.user’] title = self.validated_data[‘title’] article = self.validated_data[‘article’] I need a way of being able to access request.user from my Serializer class. 13 Answers 13
I am using django-rest-framework. It provides an awesome Django admin style browsable self-documenting API. But anyone can visit those pages and use the interface to add data (POST). How can I disable it? 3 Answers 3
I am getting an array arr passed to my Django template. I want to access individual elements of the array in the array (e.g. arr[0], arr[1]) etc. instead of looping through the whole array. Is there a way to do that in a Django template? 4 Answers 4
How can I see the current urlpatterns that “reverse” is looking in? I’m calling reverse in a view with an argument that I think should work, but doesn’t. Any way I can check what’s there and why my pattern isn’t? 20 Answers 20
I want to auto run manage.py createsuperuser on django but it seams that there is no way of setting a default password. How can I get this? It has to be independent on the django database. 22 Answers 22
