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smart spaceless

Just like `{% spaceless %}`, except a single space is preserved between two inline tags (such as `<a>`, `<em>`, and so on). This lets you use the tag on running text without fear of running two spans of styled text together incorrectly.

  • tag
  • spaceless
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object-oriented generic views

Here's an example of writing generic views in an object-oriented style, which allows for very fine-grained customization via subclassing. The snippet includes generic create and update views which are backwards compatible with Django's versions. To use one of these generic views, it should be wrapped in a function that creates a new instance of the view object and calls it: def create_object(request, *args, **kwargs): return CreateObjectView()(request, *args, **kwargs) If an instance of one of these views is placed directly in the URLconf without such a wrapper, it will not be thread-safe.

  • views
  • generic
  • object
  • update
  • create
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MoinMoin auth backend

This snippet implements an authentication backend for MoinMoin user accounts. If you have a MoinMoin running on the same server which has users, you can allow those users to sign into a Django site with the same username and password. To use, define the following settings: MOIN_DATA_DIR = "/path/to/moinmoin/data/dir" AUTH_BACKENDS = ( 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', '<this snippet module>.MoinMoinBackend', ) # optional list of groups that authenticating users must be in MOIN_AUTH_GROUPS = ["EditorGroup",]

  • auth
  • backend
  • moinmoin
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Drop in dynamic formsets in admin

A very plugable way to get Stanislaus jquery dynamic formset working in the admin with adding just one template. Add the following to templates/admin/APP/MODEL/change_form.html and also update the MODEL in the prefix setting. Thanks Stanislaus [http://elo80ka.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/jquery-plugin-django-dynamic-formset/](http://elo80ka.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/jquery-plugin-django-dynamic-formset/) [http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=elo80ka.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fp%2Fdjango-dynamic-formset%2F](http://go2.wordpress.com/?id=725X1342&site=elo80ka.wordpress.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fp%2Fdjango-dynamic-formset%2F) [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1389/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1389/)

  • dynamic
  • admin
  • jquery
  • inlines
  • formsets
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Rendering radio-buttons with icons instead of labels

I was looking for a way to save screen real estate, by using icons instead of labels for my list of choices, which in addition should be displayed as horizontal radio buttons. For example, I wanted to use thumbs_up.gif instead of "approve". I found a HorizontalRadioRenderer here: [https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/~bm6432/Django-Modifying+RadioSelect+Widget+to+have+horizontal+buttons](https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/~bm6432/Django-Modifying+RadioSelect+Widget+to+have+horizontal+buttons) Thanks to Barry McClendon for this snippet! At first, I tried to achieve display of icons instead of labels by modifying the render method, but after a while I gave up on that and decided to just use the choices tuple. This doesn't work too well with a select box (no icons, no text), but in combination with a radio widget it looks quite nice. If you mark the strings for translation, you can also easily change icons, alt and title for each language.

  • forms
  • choices
  • choicefield
  • render
  • radiobuttons
  • icons
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ReportBug() with tons of debug in mail

This basically takes the debug you get from setting debug=True, but instead, pipes it into an email and sends it over to you. I have extracted this out of our de framework, it should work, but some modifications may be necessary.

  • mail
  • report
  • bug
  • mail_admins
  • reportbug
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Foreign Key list_filter wthout custom FilterSpec

This is some (probably) pretty dodgy code that allows for foreign keys in the admin's list_filter without using a custom FilterSpec. It overrides the django.db.models.options.Options get_field class to handle spanned relationships, i.e. list_filter=('house__room__town',) as seen in http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3400 I have only tested this with a double foreign key relationship('house__room'), and it worked. It hasn't been tested in production, and the troubling part of this code is probably to use of 'deepcopy'. I do add those copies back to the options instance, so there shouldn't be too much runaway copying.

  • foreign-key
  • filterspec
  • list-filter
  • 3400
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Db Mock

I hate when my unittest hits database. Especially when each test case needs different dataset. So I wrote this db mock, that's local to specific test and uses sqlite3 in-memory db. Usage (nosetests): class TestMainNoData(DbMock): 'testing main function with no meaningful data' def test_no_posts(self): 'there are no posts' assert models.Post.objects.count() == 0, 'should be no feeds'

  • testing
  • unittest
  • database
  • test
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Amazon's CloudFront streaming signed urls

You can use this code to sign urls for streaming distributions or change it a bit and sign normal distribution's urls. Available settings: CLOUDFRONT_KEY - path to private key file CLOUDFRONT_KEY_PAIR_ID - key pair id CLOUDFRONT_EXPIRES_IN - expiration time in seconds CLOUDFRONT_DOMAIN - domain name

  • s3
  • amazon
  • aws
  • cloudfront
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Template tag: Last x twitter msgs of user

A template tag which returns the n last tweets of a given user. It uses the twitter python lib. {% get_twitter_messages user foo limit 5 as tweets %} {% for tweet in tweets %} {{ tweet.text }} {{ tweet.time }} {{ tweet.url }} {% endfor %}

  • templatetag
  • twitter
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