Sometimes we want to get a queryset or 404, for example, if we're passing our queryset to a subclassed generic view. This is identical to get_list_or_404 but returns a queryset.
Sometimes when sending email you want to specify a Return-Path different from the "From:" address on the email. The Return-Path is used for bounced email and is required for [VERP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERP). This class overrides SMTPConnection so that you can specify return_path.
An easy way to add custom methods to the QuerySet used by a Django model. See [simonwillison.net/2008/May/1/orm/](http://simonwillison.net/2008/May/1/orm/) for an in-depth explanation.
A zen study.
<code> is_loaded = False if not is_loaded: is_loaded = True #... ExceptionHandlingMiddleware as EHM import views EHM.append(views.AuthFailError, views.auth_fail) # when AuthFailError thrown it redirects to `auth_fail` view function. </code>
I'm developing a regionalization extension based on PostGIS and GeoDjango for a web-based LCA software. Because PostGIS (or PostgreSQL) is not available everywhere, we needed a way to fully disable the geographic extensions. Because of that, I set out to create a template block tag which only gets evaluated when GIS support is active and totally ignored (treated as a comment) otherwise. I had some problems getting my BoringNode to work (which should just pass the content through), so I've just used the AutoEscapeControlNode (why? Because it was the first usable class that jumped into my eye.) for this purpose.
A simple filter that generates a url from an object that has a get_absolute_url method. {{ object|quick_url }} a previous, simpler approach: [#511](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/511/)
You can add this code to a file named "field_attrs.py" in a templatetags folder inside an application. To use it, remember to load the file with the following template tag: {% load field_attrs %} And for each field you want to change the widget's attr: {{ form.phone|attr:"style=width:143px;background-color:yellow"|attr:"size=30" }}
New field type which allows prepopulate_from to work not only from javascript but in python too. If the slugfield has unique=True creates a unique slug too.
Similar to [Profiling Middleware](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/186/), but uses cProfile instead of hotshot. Append ?prof to the URL to see profiling output instead of page output.
Banning middleware with allow,deny functionality. Can select by User id/username and IP addresses. Returns a HttpResponseForbidden when banning requests. Banning by users is real nice because no matter which IP a pest comes from, they can never retrieve anything that they log into. Very handy for keeping out those unwanted pests! I personally developed this further to use a Ban model to keep track of different bans on different sites. Maybe ill post that eventually, but this runs as is with static vars. Implementation from [HvZ Source](http://www.hvzsource.com)
There is a commonly encountered problem with Django and character sets. Windows applications such as Word/Outlook add characters that are not valid ISO-8859-1 and this results in problems saving a Django model to a database with a Latin 1 encoding. These characters should also be converted to avoid any display issues for the end users even if you are using a UTF-8 database encoding. The topic is well covered at [Effbot](http://effbot.org/zone/unicode-gremlins.htm) and contains a list of appropriate conversions for each of hte problem characters. Correcting this for all of your Django models is another issue. Do you handle the re-encoding during the form validation? The save for each model? Create a base class that all your models need to inherit from? The simplest solution I have created leverages [Signals](http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Signals) Combining the re-encoding method suggested at Effbot and the pre_save signal gives you the ability to convert all the problem characters right before the save occurs for any model. **kill_gremlins method replaced with Gabor's suggestion**
This function generate an username based on the user's full name. First it tries to use the first name first letter plus the last name, second it tires the first name plus the last name first latter, and at last it tries to use the first name with a sequential number at the end. The username generated are all lowercase and ASCII only characters.
Creates a filter for displaying calendars. Passed value is a dict of dicts of arrays: that is, indexed by year, then by month. The list of month days is used to generate links in the format specified by the argument. If a particular day is *not* in the list, then no link will be generated and it will just display a number for that day. **EXAMPLE** `{{ calendar|calendar_table:"/schedules/calendar/[Y]-[m]-[d]/" }}`
Makes new template tags "ifin" and "ifnotin".
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