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SmileyChris: well thats no good =/

Does anyone know what solutions there are for managing app name conflicts in django admin? Example: I have app called MyCompany.Youtube with model VideoManager which uses model Video from Syncr.Youtube. Problem is that both cant exist in the admin page, ie /admin

morning

Hi FunkyBob

zanuxzan: well, you can override the app_name on your models...

or, I'm sure there's a way to fiddle with them in the Amin model config

or don't use the default admin publisher?

have you investigated any of these logical options? or are you asking for help first?

Django in general doesn't cope well with duplicate app names right now.

shadfc: if you not already looked at this http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2009/01/23/adv...

I think Magus has a good article on it too ;)

FunkyBob: who needs google when there is prime support on IRC, right? ;)

aonweb: what has that got to do with shadfc's problem though?

FunkyBob: I've had a brief look into solutions such as http://code.google.com/p/sorl-curator/ which seems a little extreme for what i want to do...

il have a look at app_name (i was looking for app_label....)

SmileyChris: wasn't he looking for a formset with kwarg?

aonweb: he wants to make a formset of a form with a custom arg

aonweb: which reading source doesn't look doable without changing internal methods

Def ticket

Then it will be in production in 2014

SmileyChris: true , internal methods need to be overridden

based on that article

it'd be an easy change

I cant sleep at night with a bastardized django installation

hi. how do I handle TemplateSyntaxError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 4-10: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape ...where the offending word is the {% url ...%} templatetag after switching from py2.4 to 2.5?

SmileyChris: i understand that as it is just passing in some extra param to be passed on

aonweb: ah, i missed that CustomBaseFormset section - shadfc: that looks right

yeah, it looks like itll do what I need. messing with formset internals a little though

it is still overriding some private methods

the __init__ method of BaseFormset should obviously be rebuilding kwargs and passing them through

FunkyBob: mmm, i can find surprisingly little info on this, for instance i found this http://markmail.org/message/bpgmcihkniqnb5e3#qu... which being 2006 is surely not still the case?

ivazquez|laptop: yesterday I asked about reducing persistent mysql connections and you said that the way to do that is to decrease wsgi processes and threads. I've got 2 p and 25 t. Reducing reduces responsiveness. Is that expected?

Should usage counters be embedded within models or live outside of models? I prefer latter. is there any existing django plugin?

zanuxzan: are you telling me you searched google before the docs? or am I misunderstanding yo?

FunkyBob: I used the google search on djangoproject.com - for appname and app_name - then i used google

fairy nuff

I want to hook up a signal handler for post_save for "django.contrib.auth.models.User" for one of my apps. I currently wire it up in the root urls.py file to be sure it is always hooked up first, but it seems out of place there.

zanuxzan: did you then resort to reading over the Admin docs, in case your guesses at keywords were wrong?

Where does the connect belong?

procto: Of course.

You know have fewer instances handling connections.

*now

Hi, is there a way to make manage.py spit out sql for a different type of database than the one specified in settings.py?

rasca: no, just change settings.py

FunkyBob: Yes i had previously read the ModelAdmin docs (as in 5 mins ago), and after reading it again, i thought i might try setting verbose_name for the Meta options on the model. After which, I realised that, all along there has never been a problem it has been showing up in the admin under the same app name :P

FunkyBob: I just wasn't search for the model name... duh

FunkyBob: thanks for the pointers anyway

andym_: thanks

zanuxzan: np

If I want to send data from a dynamically generated for from js to my django app, what's the best way? Other than JSON.stringify

If I want to hook up a signal handler in app A to a signal generated by a model in app B, where should the code for registering the handler go? (Right now I do it in the core urls.py file, but that seems wrong.)

whats wrong with sending a plain old get or post guacchip

qwip: doesn't matter, works anywhere

guacchip: jQuery's forms plugin makes it pretty straightforward.

andym: I'm generating the form fields dynamically, so I won't know ahead of time how many fields I'll have

matt, can you link me? That's probably the best way, since I'm using jquery already

guacchip: so, a browser can still do a post or get of a form

Right, but what should I name my fields?

I'm fairly certain googling 'jquery forms' would suffice.

Hello people, how can I assing a variable for all my templates whithout assign in something like render_to_response ?

Well, I figured there might be more than one forms plugin for jq, but thanks all the same

hi

diogo: you can make a wrapper method or use template context processors

or both

andym_ Nothing like a middleware ?

Middleware doesn't deal with templates.

no middleware is different

is there a way to find the real type or to get the specialized object in a query returning superclass instances ?

ivazquez|laptop: right. that's exactly what I thought. So it seems I'm stuck between having enough wsgi processes and threads to handle the users and keeping few enough to reduce db connections

mattmcc andym_ What can I look for ?

andym, thanks for the answer, but how could it not matter? (I'll go try it out though, so I'll be back if I have problems.)

ivazquez|laptop: there is no way to force closing of db connections periodically? transaction.commit() doesn't seem to do quite what I'd like :)

qwip: short answer, because thats how signals work, as long as the code is imported, that's all that matters

ivazquez|laptop: thanks for the help btw!

Closing the connection periodically will slow down responsiveness regardless, and what happens if it can't connect due to too many connections?

the issue is that I have some ajax that keeps hittin the db. I'm already caching responses to reduce, but when a few thousand users are using it at the same time...

lots of max_user_conections exceeded

no answer for my question ?

andym_, thanks again! I guess I need to go read up on what is imported and in what order.

hello!

can I limit the content a user can change through the admin interface on a per-user basis? I mean, I need to grant users capability of changing their own user object only.

andym_ Thank you, I found that.

phretor: http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/24/admin/

mattmcc: it's a greatly written article