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RandomObjectManager

Manager Mixin to implement get_random() in your models. You can override get_objects to tune the queriset To use, define your class: class MyManager(models.Manager, RandomObjectManager): DEFAULT_NUMBER = 5 # I can change that def get_objects(self): return self.filter(active=True) # Only active models plz class MyModel(models.Model): active = models.BooleanField() objects = MyManager() Now you can do: MyModel.objects.get_random()

  • random
  • manager
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Cheap direct_to_tempalte patterns

Django cheap-pages Methods to use when you just want to use the Django dispatcher and there will be no extra business logic in your pages. In some cases flatpages is too flat, and store templates in DB is too much hassle >>> url(^name/$, ... direct_to_template, ... {'template': 'name.html'}, ... name='name') can be expressed as: >>> page('name') urlpatterns = patterns('', ...) urlpatterns += build('Regexp', ['page1', 'page2', ...])

  • generic
  • urlpatterns
  • direct_to_template
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