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Google Closure support in django-compress

A filter to integrate Google Closure compiler in django-compress plugin. 1. [download django-compress](http://code.google.com/p/django-compress/) 2. install it 3. [download Closure Compiler](http://code.google.com/closure/compiler) 4. put the jar at the root of your project 5. put this snippet as a **__init__.py** file in a **google_closure** directory in the filters directory of the plugin 6. add `COMPRESS_JS_FILTERS = ('compress.filters.google_closure.GoogleClosureCompilerFilter',)` to your settings.py You can test `COMPRESS_CLOSURE_JS_ARGUMENTS = {'compilation_level': 'ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS', }` in your settings.py too

  • google
  • js
  • minify
  • closure
  • compress
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Stacked/Grouped Forms

This snippet provides support to create a bit more advanced forms, eg group fields together vertically and horizontally. It's a bit similar to the options one has about displaying fields in the admin.

  • forms
  • groups
  • stacked
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very archive view

I tried to think of a way to use generic views to show all my blog posts on one page organized chronologically with each post title under one month name and all the month names under one year name. Like so: ` 2009 October My last example blog entry Entry even before the last one First of October September Only one entry in Sept. 2008 December It is cold in December First posting of my blog ` I could not think of a way to do this using generic views, before I wrote a view and some template logic that does. The template logic is here: [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1765/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1765/) Any suggestions for design patterns are greatly appreciated.

  • archive
  • blog-entry
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invoke pyflakes via manage.py

Invokes [pyflakes](http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodPyflakes) diagnostic tool as a `manage.py` command. Save as `flakes.py`, since `pyflakes.py` will collide with `pyflakes` module. I needed to invoke pyflakes as management command, because I alter `sys.path` in my `manage.py`, so system-wide pyflakes would not see project-local modules. Provides possibility of ignoring warnings by adding text `pyflakes:ignore` in a comment at end of offending line. Returns non-zero status to system when non-ignored warnings are found. Accepts list of directories or files as arguments. When no arguments are given, `PYFLAKES_DEFAULT_ARGS` setting is used (list of strings, by default `['.']`).

  • management
  • pyflakes
  • flakes
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parse date template tag

Return a datetime corresponding to date_string, parsed according to format. I had the need for such a thing while working with an API that returned JSON that I fed, via simplejson, directly to a template, and didn't want to change the data structure just for this one piece.

  • datetime
  • parse
  • strptime
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GzipFileSystemStorage

`GzipFileSystemStorage` is a `FileSystemStorage` subclass that transparently compresses files. [More Info](http://theidioteque.net/blog/2009/9/29/gzipfilesystemstorage/)

  • compression
  • file
  • gzip
  • storage
  • compress
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Interactive debugger and other Paste niceties

runserver with extra development tools: 1. interactive debugger that pops up automatically if an exception occurs, courtesy of [Werkzeug](http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/documentation/dev/debug.html#using-the-debugger) 2. logging of print statements directly into HTML (div float), courtesy of [Paste](http://pythonpaste.org/modules/debug.prints.html). Credits: [piranha.org.ua](http://piranha.org.ua/)

  • print
  • django
  • debugging
  • paste
  • wsgi
  • werkzeug
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Pagination Template Tag

Django Pagination Template Tag that allows unlimited customization to the current Django Pagination. Automatically creates template variables that can be used to display the pagination in any format that you can desire such as Previous 1 2 3 [ 4 ] 5 6 7 Next First Previous 12 14 15 16 17 [ 18 ] 19 20 22 25 Next Last Showing 25 of 80 Results First Page 23 27 30 33 [ 36 ] 38 41 44 50 Next Last

  • pagination
  • custom-pagination
  • django-custom-pagination
  • customize-pagination-django
  • pagination-templatetag
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Render Decorator

Simple decorator to render an html template or return a json response. The view must return a dict object. Usage example: @render('page.html') def a_view(request): #do something return {'key': 'value'}

  • render
  • decorator
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HTTP Authorization Middleware/Decorator

Use HTTP Authorization to log in to django site. If you use the FORCE_HTTP_AUTH=True in your settings.py, then ONLY Http Auth will be used, if you don't then either http auth or django's session-based auth will be used. This assumes that the regular auth middleware is already installed. If you provide a HTTP_AUTH_REALM in your settings, that will be used as the realm for the challenge. Having both a decorator and a middleware means that for site-wide http auth, you only need to specify it once, but the same code can be used as a decorator if you want part of your site protected using htty basic auth, and the other bits freely visible. Of course, since this is basic auth, then you need to make sure your site is running under SSL (HTTPS), else your users passwords are effectively transmitted in the clear.

  • middleware
  • decorator
  • http-auth
  • basic-auth
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Save a model using an arbitrary db connection

This function lets you save an instance of a model to another database based on a connection argument. Useful when doing data migrations across databases. Connection is anything that would work as a django.db.connection I'm not sure if this handles proxy models or model inheritance properly, though.

  • multi-db
  • connection
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Fix duplicate first page of paginated results

Search engines might conclude there's duplicate content if `/some_view/` and `/some_view/?page=1` returns the same results. This middleware redirects `?page=1` to the URL without the page parameter. You can set the name of the parameter in settings.py as `PAGE_VAR`. See [here](http://www.muhuk.com/2009/08/a-civilized-way-display-lots-of-data/) for more details.

  • middleware
  • pagination
  • seo
  • paginate
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Template Filter: Add indentation

Template filter to add the given number of tabs to the beginning of each line. Useful for keeping markup pretty, plays well with Markdown. Usage: {{ content|indent:"2" }} {{ content|markdown|indent:"2" }}

  • filter
  • markup
  • pretty
  • indent
  • indentation
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is_dirty and dict of changed values

When you call model.changed_columns() you get a dict of all changed values. When you call model.is_dirty() you get boolean whether or not the object has been changed since last save Based on an answer here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/110803/dirty-fields-in-django but fixed and added is_dirty

  • django
  • models
  • save
  • dirty
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Redirect view based on GEO

Wanted a neat way to redirect views based on GeoIP determined criteria, from HTTP_REFERER. Decorator approach seemed the best way to make it straightforward to redirect views. To use, installed the Max Mind Python GeoIP API : http://www.maxmind.com/app/python

  • view
  • redirect
  • geoip
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