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hahah

thanks

hey FunkyBob, did you catch the writeup on capistrano? (i can't recall if you were interested in that or not)

hello all, I got a question about databases

Magus-: no, I didn't... (and yes, I am vaguely)

mattmcc, it's not that I didn't know that, I just been looking at this for a fucking hour and didn't notice it until he just said that

answer: SELECT 42;

what I need to check now is proper usage of get_or_create

Magus-: hehe

win 25

p--: Ah. A good practice when being stuck on a problem for what seems like 'too long' is to get up and walk away from the computer.

Focusing too hard often makes it less likely to find the cause.

I've defined a row for an email address

but I've defined it as charField

quick question, would the following snippet work with a form.ModelForm: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/165/

explaining it to someone else (preferably spoken) often helps, too

mattmcc, I know.. Im leaving for the weekend in a few hours and wanted to get these changes done :)

is there a way to modify it as EmailField?

mattmcc, instead im now behind schedule

p--: Wel,l I didn't mean that drastic. Like get up, walk around outside for a few minutes, have a snack..

Just enough to get you to stop thinking about the problem.

rbd_: the validators are gone

mattmcc, yea.. you're right..

not just validator_list

anyways, thanks again Magus-

If I a multiple choice question, which can either have 4 multiple choice answers, or 2 (true/false) answers. What is the best way to design these models? One question and one answer object which links via foreignkey to the question model?

Warcrime: don't repeat yourself so fast

we saw the question

we have no answer

hence, no response

jose: I believe the underlying database column is the same, but you can always check by looking at what manage.py sql says

Warcrime: it seems like suboptimal Model planning.

ah... seems I was mistooked... get_or_create saves the new object for you

I deleted de "Email" row from de DB manually, but now I do a SyncDB and it does not create anything

What do you mean by that terral?

shoudn't it rebuild it?

jose, not if the table already exists. Django won't modify existing data

jose: you mean you deleted the /table/ ?

or do you mean column?

django doesn't make rows on syncdb

I deleted the column

yah, no

django doesn't modify existing tables, as gkelly said

so it will never add/remove columns

oh... so if I delete the table it will create it again?

Warcrime: well, it really sounds like you need 2 different types of questions.

yes

great, thanks then

is mod_wsgi preferred over mod_python while deploying on apache

hey guys, I've installed and enabled memecached on my django setup. I'm also using django's session implementation, and I wanted to know is there a way I could force django to write session info to the db every once in a while ? Basically the way its working, is that sessions are in memecached and nothing is written out to the database, obviously this poses a bit of a problem if I reboot my server or it crashes....

snipe65: write your own backend

is there a howto on how I would go about doin that ? :|

django's send_mail(...) method appears to hang indefinitely when I try using it -- can anyone suggest some debugging techniques to see what's up? (is there a debugger I should be using?)

largos: you can use winpdb debugger, just choose the file where you calling, set breakpoints and run the django server thats it...

snipe65: not that I'm aware of - just start with an existing backend

rskumar: thanks! I just found some tips on setting up django w/ gmail, so I'm trying that first...

Magus-: when you say backend do you mean something along the lines of django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware ?

no...

I'm a bit new to this :|

note the "backends" folder in contrib/sessions

maybe I'm talking abou tthose... :þ

thanks :)

now, in your opinion would it be better to "customize" the current session's backend or completely write my own ?

sorry to bother you again Magus- , I have a choices field in my mode, but self.choice returns the int of the choice, is there a way to pull the value instead of the key

kind sir

ok

juice_d: do not nag me directly with questions

ask the channel

if I know, I speak

will do

juice_d: get_choice_display should do it