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Facebook event selector field

Ripped this out of a project I'm working on. The field renders as two <select> elements representing the two-level hierarchy organized events Facebook uses. Returns the id's Facebook wants.

  • forms
  • field
  • widget
  • facebook
  • fbml
  • fbjs
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Updated - Template context debugger with (I)Pdb

Tag to inspect template context, filter to inspect variable. Originally by denis, [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1550/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1550/). This just extracts variables from the context to locals for quicker access and autocompletion (When using ipdb). Additionally, 'vars' holds context keys for quick reference to whats available in the template.

  • template
  • debug
  • context
  • pdb
  • ipdb
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Month / Year dropdown widget

This is an adaption of [django.forms.extras.widgets.SelectDateWidget](http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/forms/extras/widgets.py#L16) which has no day dropdown - it still produces a date but with the day set to 1. Example use class myForm(forms.Form): # ... date = forms.DateField( required=False, widget=MonthYearWidget(years=xrange(2004,2010)) )

  • date
  • year
  • credit-card
  • month
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Private Context Decorator

Django's standard inclusion_tag doesn't include context variables by default. When you add takes_context you are required to manually merge the context variables into the dict which your tag returns, which tends to result in wasteful code or [possibly accidentally] leaking variables into the global context (`context.update({…})`). This decorator allows your inclusion tag to remain simple and still have safe access to the global context for things like `MEDIA_URL`: @register.inclusion_tag('my_template') @private_context def my_tag(context, …): return {"foo": 1, "bar": 2}

  • templatetag
  • decorator
  • context
  • inclusion_tag
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match filter

A filter that re.matches a regex against a value. Useful for nav bars as follows: {% if location.path|match:"/$" %} class="current"{% endif %} For `location.path` see my [location context_processor](/snippets/1685/).

  • regex
  • match
  • nav
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location context_processor

A simple context_processor to include location info. Useful for permalinks, site name references, and navigation bars. For example: {% if location.path|match:"/$" %} class="current"{% endif %} See also my [match filter](/snippets/1686/).

  • url
  • path
  • location
  • nav
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Django Template "include_raw" tag

At WWU Housing, we started using the [Tempest jQuery plugin](http://plugins.jquery.com/project/tempest) for javascript templating, which has the same {{ var }} syntax as Django's templating. We wanted to be able to use the same templates in our server-side python and our client-side js, so we had to have a way of including the unrendered template for the js. At the same time, for convenience, it had to be modular so we could push the same code from our dev- to our live-server and not worry about absolute paths (which is why the {% ssi %} tag did not work). So the {% include_raw %} tag was born.

  • template
  • django
  • parse
  • include
  • ssi
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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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CSV to JSON Fixture

**This script converts a CSV file into a JSON file ready to be imported via `manage.py loaddata` like any other fixture data.** It can be used manually to do a one-time conversion (for placing into a /fixtures folder), or used in a fabric script that automatically converts CSV to JSON live then runs `loaddata` to import as fixture data. To run script: >`csv2json.py input_file_name model_name` > >e.g. csv2json.py airport.csv app_airport.Airport > >Note: input_file_name should be a path relative to where this script is. **Scripts depends on simplejson module.** The module can just be placed in a sub-folder to the script to make it easy to import. If you use the same Python binary that you use for your Django site, you could use the Django import instead: `from django.utils import simplejson` **File Input/Ouptut formats:** Assumes CSV files are saved with LF line endings, and that first line has field values. First column is the model's pk field. Sample CSV input: id,ident,name,city,state 1,00C,Animas Air Park,Durango,CO 6,00V,Meadow Lake,Colorado Springs,CO 7,00W,Lower Granite State,Colfax,WA 12,01J,Hilliard Airpark,Hilliard,FL Output file name is input name + ".json" extension. Sample JSON output: [ { "pk": 1, "model": "app_airport.Airport", "fields": { "name": "Animas Air Park", "city": "Durango", "ident": "00C", "state": "CO", } } ] **Debugging Conversion Problems** If JSON import errors out with "ValidationError: This value must be an integer", you probably have a blank in an Integer field within your CSV file, but if can't figure out, try setting a breakpoint in file: ./django/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py e.g. 688 try: 689 return int(value) 690 except (TypeError, ValueError): 691 import pdb; pdb.set_trace() 692 -> raise exceptions.ValidationError( 693 _("This value must be an integer.")) To figure out what field caused the error, while in the debugger: (Pdb) u <- to go UP the callstack (Pdb) field.name

  • json
  • loaddata
  • fixtures
  • csv
  • import
  • fixture
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superSearch function for generating large OR queries

superSearch is intended to make it easier to make complex OR queries, thusly hitting the database less. EXAMPLE: Searching for a user named 'Eric Neuman' would be difficult because first_name and last_name are separate fields. However, with superSearch, it's a breeze. query = ['Eric Neuman'] f = ['first_name','last_name'] s = query.split(' ') m = ['icontains'] results = superSearch(User, f, m,s)

  • dynamic
  • q
  • query
  • kwargs
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OracleAuthBackend

This code uses oracle as an authentication back end. It creates a new connection to the db and attempts to login. If successful it will then create an upper case User account with _ORACLE appended to the username. My urls.py call: from django.conf.urls.defaults import * urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^accounts/login/$', 'django.contrib.auth.views.login', {'template_name': 'login.html'}), ) My setting.py specific settings: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ( 'oracleauth.views.OracleAuthBackend', ) LOGIN_URL = '/accounts/login/' ORACLE_CONNECT = 'database-host:1521/database' DEBUG=True

  • authentication
  • oracle
  • login
  • auth
  • backend
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EmailListField for Django

A simple Django form field which validates a list of emails. [See this at my blog](http://sciyoshi.com/blog/2009/aug/08/emaillistfield-django/)

  • fields
  • forms
  • email
  • form
  • field
  • email-list
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