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you can do things like it though, using choices on a model field

Magus: I want to set the initial= value of a form field, derived from an object instance a pass into the one way or another - the question is which is possible for doing that when you use custom forms

Magus-: won't using CharField with choices make the lookup significantly slower?

suitcase-sensiti: I am not really understanding what you are saying when you catch __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): you get all of the items passed to the form

into the form one way... (I always forget words)

zwnj: nobody said you have to use a CharField

IntegerField supports it too

suitcase-sensiti: just then call super(YourForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

suitcase-sensiti: so set that in the form's initial arg, not the field...

or use self.fields['foo'].initial in __init__

you do not need a custom field in this

Magus-: ahhh! found it

Magus-: right. thanks. probably you should add an example with IntegerField to the documentation as well.

Magus: No, trying that now...thx

yah, it wasnt in my TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

Say I have a URLField for example. How do I check a string to see if it is a valid looking URL ?

Validation is typically done with a form..

URLField, for example, has a regex

thanks, folks! to use the problem that 'self' is a name only in __init__ to one's advantage saved it, I think (the self.fields[...].initial thingy)

it turned out that that was my actual problem, i.e., 'self' not being known where you play with the indivial form fields and widget, i.e., outside the functions of the form

hi guys looking for a django job in scotland

Could someone please tell me what the following code does - widget=forms.TextInput(attrs=dict(attrs_dict, maxlength=75), specifically attrs and attrs_dict

Well, dict() makes a dict from its arguments.

hmm, is there a way to sort of 'refresh' django without having to restart apache

Evanlec: with mod_python , no

mattmcc: ok, so why do i get an error saying attrs_dict isn't defined?

Evanlec: you got MaxRequestsPerChild 1 , but that won't work in production

mattmcc: never mind, I found it

is there somewhere where the comments contrib addon in django 1.0b2 is documented?

Evanlec: i would suggest mod_wsgi and deamonize

[530]_: i just got mod_wsgi running, but ive no idea how to do that

what does the underscore do in this code? - label=_(u'password')

grigora: marks that string for translation

mattmcc: Yes but is there some kind of function in each datatype, ie, foo = SomeField, foo.validate(test_string) ?

kratorius: what does that mean exactly? I am getting an error saying - name '_' is not defined

grigora: add "from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _"

at the beginning of the file

kratorius: ah, thank you

Evanlec: if running as a specific user, just log in as that user and run killall httpd

jsoft: Fields have a clean method.

[530]_: okay...

should i set get_manipulator_field_objs() for my customized fields if i use newforms_admin?

^set^def

[530]_: but what does that accomplish?

[530]_: im not sure how its being run, i assume by my user, this is on webfaction

Evanlec: reloads the code, but olny if the processes run as that user

hm k

seems to not be permitted =\

lol

doing that tried to kill all httpd processes for every other user on this server ;p

where does my sqlite db get stored on disk when django makes it?

Where you tell it to.

ericholscher: wherever you tell it to in your settings.py file

somewhere there

ohh i see

ooo... that's slick: {{event.created|date:"Y/m/d H:i:s"}}

Evanlec: i got the luxury of my own server )

;)

with the new filestorage system, how does one customize the filename of an uploaded file? e.g to prepend the logged in username?

I'm trying to create custom admin_views and im spacing on where to get admin_views from.. i get the ViewDoesNotExist: Could not import tat.bloodcenter.admin_views. Error was: No module named admin_views error

[530]_: that is nice ;p

mattrussell: that is nor possible withot a custom view

not

Howdy all. I'm pretty new to django and have been looking for a good tutorial on pagination. I looked at the docs and searched google, but mostly found code snippets and not really a good explanation of how the built-in pagination works. Any resources?

hmm, can't seem to clear out my postgres db. Worked fine on sqlite :( auth & contenttypes refuse to be reset because of dependencies. Any postgres specific tricks ?

actually, i've found the solution now - upload_to can accept callable

mattrussell: but only if that field was changed on uplod

in the profile_callback function, how do I access the form variables? is the function even supposed to save the extra data, or just create an empty profile?

forms CharField(price) with multi widget(TextInput and Select) returns a string ? When saved in CharField ... it saves as [u'123', u'free'], and if I use price[1] it saves only u but I expect it to save free ..wat am I doing wrong here or do I need to process string manually ?