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YAAS (Yet Another Auto Slug)

This is the self-populating AutoSlugField I use. It's not the [first such snippet](http://www.djangosnippets.org/tags/slug/), but (IMO) it works a bit more cleanly. It numbers duplicate slugs (to avoid IntegrityErrors on a unique slug field) using an "ask-forgiveness-not-permission" model, which avoids extra queries at each save. And it's simply a custom field, which means adding it to a model is one line. Usage: class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) slug = AutoSlugField(populate_from='name')

  • slug
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Frequently used tags/filters for Jinja2

Some frequently used filters and global functions: **url** - same as django url tag **nbspize** - replace all spaces with nbsp **get_lang** - get current language code **timesince** - converted django timesince tag **timeuntil** - converted django timeuntil tag **truncate** - tag that truncates text call it with an str argument like '20c' or '5w', where the number provides the count and c stands for charachters and w stands for words

  • tags
  • jinja
  • jinja2
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Ajax error handling

Handles exceptions from AJAX code, giving more useful errors and tracebacks. (By the way, all these new snippets are extracts from [django-webapp](http://code.google.com/p/django-webapp/).) This exact code is not well tested, but it's refactored from some code we use in production.

  • middleware
  • ajax
  • error
  • exception
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restrict user access to modeladmin via metaclass

* Include `__metaclass__ = user_lock` to your ModelAdmin class * Add `__target__ = path_to_user_field` somewhere in the ModelAdmin * done! `__target__` is what will be used in the `filter` call. examples `'user'` or `'author'` or `'message__user'` e.t.c. The result of `__target__` is the field that is then checked against `request.user`

  • admin
  • user
  • restrict
  • model-admin
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MAC address field

Supported MAC formats: aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff, separator : or - aabbccddeeff both lower case and upper case

  • model
  • field
  • custom-field
  • address
  • mac
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Load static media from secure (SSL) static server (Context Processor)

If you request static files such as images, javascript or css using http rather than https, the browser will complain that your site is not secure. This simple context processor will replace http:// with https:// in your MEDIA_URL if your static files are being included from an https page. In your settings.py just replace 'django.core.context_processors.media' with your new context processor.

  • files
  • ssl
  • context
  • static
  • processor
  • secure
  • content
  • media_url
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Admin related widget wrapper with edit / delete link (python model admin)

Here's the python code to produce an admin related widget with the edit and delete link also. * [RelatedFieldWidgetWrapper](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2562) * [related-widget-wrapper.html](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2563) * [related-widget-wrapper.js](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2564) * [RelatedWidgetWrapperAdmin](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/2565)

  • admin
  • related
  • widget
  • wrapper
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YouTube Template Filter

Given a youtube url (can copy and paste right from the browser) turns the url into an embedded video. If you put this in your app's templatetags/filters.py, you can do the following >{{ object.youtube_url|youtube }} and it would embed the youtube video.

  • template
  • filter
  • youtube
  • embed
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decorator for decorators with optional args

Have you ever wanted a decorator that you could apply either straight-out: @mydec def myfun(...): ... or with special arguments: @mydec(special=foo) def myfun(...): ... ? Well, decorate it with this metadecorator, and voila. (I had this idea independently, but it's been done before as decorator_withargs: http://osdir.com/ml/python.ideas/2008-01/msg00048.html. My version is actually useful because it deals with signatures and calling directly.) As http://www.siafoo.net/article/68 points out, the standard decorator module has too much magic: the "@decorator" decorator expects a wrapping function, not a working decorator. This module fixes that.

  • decorator
  • decoratordecorator
  • metadecorator
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Timedelta Database Field

This subclass of django.models.Field stores a python datetime.timedelta object as an integer column in the database. It includes a TimedeltaFormField for editing it through djangos admin interface. Feedback welcome. 2011-04-20: TimedeltaField can now be (de)serialized. Tested with JSON. 2009-11-23: `_has_changed()` added. Before form.changed_data contained timedelta FormFields, even if nothing changed.

  • datetime
  • timedelta
  • dbfield
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