This piece of code allows the quickly set the locale to a different language. This can be used for instance in cron jobs to send emails to users in their specific language. This is pretty rough code, it be better to create an object, having two functions: set_locale and reset_locale. set_locale would than contain steps 1 to 4 (and return the request object on succes), reset_locale would be step 6 Enjoy!
This is based on snippets 29 and 43, both of which had good ideas, and I thought, "why not combine them?" Given the new_topic string above, the resulting slug will be: "test-long-string-which-has-many-words-here" John Crawford Note - requires python 2.5, for list comprehensions. Otherwise you could just use a for loop to build the clean_list.
This is a more compact version of django's [timeuntil](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#timeuntil) filter that only shows hours & minutes. If used like `{{ dt|timeto }}`, will produce output like "1hr 30min". If you know for sure that the server has the same timezone as the [datetime](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime-objects) value, then you don't need [datetutil.tz](http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-587bd3efc48f897f55c179abc520a34330ee0a62) for utc time conversion.
give diggbar users something to think about (http://daringfireball.net/2009/04/how_to_block_the_diggbar)
Use this template filter to produce an ISO format UTC datetime string from a [timezone aware](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.tzinfo) [datetime](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime) object. Usage example in a template: `<input name="when" type="hidden" value="{{ dt|isoutc }}"`. You must have [dateutil](http://labix.org/python-dateutil) installed for `tz.tzutc()` to work. And of course, you'll need to load it as a [custom tag](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#howto-custom-template-tags) to use it. The output format differs from python's [datetime.isoformat](http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#datetime.datetime.isoformat) by ignoring the `microsecond` and including a "Z" suffix for the UTC timezone. For ease of use, it is also not double quoted as the standard suggests.
First version Apr 9 09
FuzzyDateTimeField is a drop in replacement for the standard [DateTimeField](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/fields/#datetimefield) that uses [dateutil.parser](http://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-a23e8ae0a661d77b89dfb3476f85b26f0b30349c) to clean the value. It has an extra keyword argument `fuzzy=True`, which allows it to be more liberal with the input formats it accepts. Set `fuzzy=False` for more strict validation.
This TemplateTag simply returns a True when it is Naked CSS Day allowing you to hide your CSS or display a custom message on that date. Allows allows for parameters should the date change (again).
Using this small helper, you can instanciate your forms in an even DRYer way: form = MyForm(**form_kwargs(request)) if form.is_valid(): #...
This custom processor is meant for use with sorl-thumbnail to add letterboxing functionality. Add to your THUMBNAIL_PROCESSORS like so: `THUMBNAIL_PROCESSORS = ( 'sorl.thumbnail.processors.colorspace', 'sorl.thumbnail.processors.autocrop', 'sorl.thumbnail.processors.scale_and_crop', 'sorl.thumbnail.processors.filters', # custom processors 'utils.processors.ltbx', ) ` and then use in your templates like so: ` {% thumbnail model.img_field 200x150 ltbx as thumb %} <img src="{{ thumb }}" width="{{ thumb.width }}" height="{{ thumb.height }}" />` Enjoy.
This snippet is used to create a script for monitoring sphinx status with Nagios via [django-sphinx](http://code.google.com/p/django-sphinx/). It returns 0 (OK) or 2 (CRITICAL). Remember to change this strings `ModelToMonitor` and `app_name`. Usage : `./manage your-controls-command --log` > /your/script/name.py
This snippet is used to monitor sphinx status via [django-sphinx](http://code.google.com/p/django-sphinx/). It returns 0 (OK) or 2 (CRITICAL). Remember to change this strings `ModelToMonitor` and `app_name`. Usage : `./manage your-controls-command --log`
If you try to load a template named filename.LANG.html it will try to load filename.de.html first, then filename.html afterwards (assuming that German is the currently selected language). Usage: Put in a file named langtemplateloader.py under your project, and replace django's default filesystem loader with this in the TEMPLATE_LOADERS section of settings.py: TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'myproject.langtemplateloader.load_template_source', # 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source', )
This tiny snippets grabs the sourcecode out of a template name without rendering or compiling the template itself.
This is an example how to dynamically import modules other than `models.py` from installed apps. It allows you to define the full module path just once in `INSTALLED_APPS` in the settings. Using this technique makes it possible to write extensible and reusable apps as mentioned in [Abstract Models and Dynamicly Assigned Foreign Keys](http://djangotricks.blogspot.com/2009/02/abstract-models-and-dynamicly-assigned.html). Probably, it would be great to have some helpers for doing this in django itself. For example: from django.db import models from django.utils import importlib def import_installed(path): """ Imports a module from an installed app >>> import_installed("myapp.forms") <module 'myproject.apps.myapp.forms'> """ app_name, module = path.split(".", 1) app = models.get_app(app_name) return importlib.import_module(app.__name__[:-6] + module) UPDATE: Reported as ticket [#10703](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10703)