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let me check this

I am using the shell, and trying to generate the error. I get the same one, But I don`t know how to use the stacktrace to actually find the source of the problem

the stacktrace is irrelevant

it will not show you the problem

the problem has already occurred by the time you're getting that error

ok, so what should be the procedure to follow to track back that problem ?

you need to fix the query that actually broke it

in the shell, one bad query will break it until you reconnect to the db

ads = Ad.objects.all()

that`s the query ...

wrong

if that's the one SHOWING the error, its merely the one you're on right now

Magus-: i don't have MEDIA_URL in my templates, why could this be?

a PREVIOUS query caused it

EVERY query after that will error

because you broke the transaction

so it CANNOT be used

ok ok, man is there a way to log in a file to debug �

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cromero: you're not using RequestContext or you're not using the media context processor, or you're in 0.96 which didn't have it

innox: no

so what`s the best logging/debugging mechanism ?

Magus-: i'm in 0.96, how stable is the development version? is there something similar to media_url in 0.96? that variable exists in my settings

you'd have to make your own context processor in 0.96 of course

since it wasn't in trunk yet then

Magus-: i don't quite get it, so there's no straight forward solution to harcoding hrefs in the templates?

Magus-: in 0.96 that is

>_<

you're not listening at all

MAKE YOUR OWN CONTEXT PROCESSOR

so basically copying the one that is in trunk

it simply did not exist yet in 0.96

if you mean there's no BUILT IN SOLUTIOn

then yes

the media context processor did not exist in 0.96

but the straightforward solution is to make your own two line processor

and voila, problem solved

well thx gusgus, it worked out well !

but I don't want be a pirate!!

Magus-: then straightforward just became a relative term, since i have no idea hwo to make that teo line processor you mention

try reading the docs I linked you to earlier

A context processor has a very simple interface: It���s just a Python function that takes one argument, an HttpRequest object, and returns a dictionary that gets added to the template context.

def my_processor(request): return {"MEDIA_URL": settings.MEDIA_URL}

ok ok, 3 lines

since you need "from django.conf import settings" above that

(as I wouldn't actually put the return on one line like that)

what is the "site" stuff for ?

zbyszek: it enables one django instance to control more than one domain

zbyszek: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/sites/

thnx

Magus-: my current settings has no TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS variable, if i create sucha a variable there and point it to the 'my_processor' function, will it actually make sense?

yes, but you need to redefine the defaults too

which means? whatever currently is in django.conf.settings.TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS ?

or that doesn't make sense?

how about the ones clearly labelled in default :��

I'm trying to add simple Free Comments to a app I'm writing. I want to add E-mail and URL fields so I have copied the contrib.comments app out and placed it in my project. I've added the fields but I can't for the life of me get them to show up in the database. I've dropped them from the database and re-synced but nothing still. Any ideas?

Brad___: you can't do that

Brad___: fieldsets maybe?

copying the code leaves it referencing contrib.comments

[530]: no

Magus-: i agree it is a bad idea

Brad___: you would have to edit every last reference to contrib.comments in the code of it also, so that it references yours instead

really bad idea

[530]: its an idea that simply won't work...

fieldsets have nothing whatsoever to do with this

I knew I was forgetting something. I had done this before in the past I forgot about the references.

oh , copied out

it should be a problem since I'm not editing the actually django.contrib.comments since I copied it out right?

oh...yeah...cool

anyways to get fieldsets from forms? or do I hand code them?

iggy: hand code for the moment

for the moment sounds promising

[530]: you think 6630 has a good chance of getting in? or some other ticket?

iggy: i have taken a look at that, needs some work, the patch currently does too much at once

djangosnippets.org down?

um, yeah

google cache ftw

Extremely stupid question here. Brace yourselves.

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:D

If I have an object with module scope in my views, (i.e. all view functions can access the same object), do I have to worry about synchronization?

don't do that

I find the answer to the question "do you need to sync this" in python is often no

lol

OK, I won't

it felt icky anyways

I would NOT trust globals to work like you want

Thanks Magus-!

Okay, I apologize in advance for a very dumb question that is tangential to Django - how do I drop down to the domain from url x/y/z in a link without having to use ../../../gohere

/

if you lead a url with a / it is relative to the domain root

One-character answers are so awesome.

so /foo/ always links to http://domain.com/foo/ no matter how deep you are

The information-per-bit is beautiful

especially in ascii