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FixedEmailMessage

Django EmailMessage class has no cc support and has bug in bcc support. Core developers won't add cc support (see ticket http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5790), and I don't want to wait half a year until they will realize they have a flaw that bcc recipients are sent to regular "to:" recipients and fix it. So, if you want to use EmailMessage class right now, you'd better use FixedEmailMessage class. Class contract is the same, except for a new cc constructor argument.

  • email
  • smtp
  • mail
  • message
  • emailmessage
  • cc
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More informative error mailings

This middleware makes the admin error emails a lot more informative: you get the same HTML response that you get with `DEBUG=True`. It uses the base class defined in [#638](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/638/). You will probably want to apply the patch for [#6748](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6748) to help avoid slowdowns caused by unintentional database queries. As the ticket (and django-developers thread) notes, it isn't foolproof; you may still find this executing database queries.

  • admin
  • debug
  • error
  • mail
  • 500
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Mask sensitive POST fields in error e-mails

For PyCon we have our crash messages go to a mailman group so that people working on the site would be aware of issues. This saved us many times. But sensitive information would some times come up such as login passwords and fields we did not want going on the list. the solution was to mask these POST fields when an exception occurs and is being handled. This is simple drop-in code which will mask the values of POST arguments which contain keywords (such as 'password', 'protected', and 'private').

  • exception
  • handler
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create_update for newforms (ModelForm)

Based on [danjak's](http://www.djangosnippets.org/users/danjak/) [snippet](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/99/) but updated to use ModelForms - so can easily handle generic CRUD operations. A replacement create_update.py for use with ModelForm create_object and update_project modified to handle newforms (including FileFields) with ModelForm - it also had delete_object as well for completeness. In addition, it has some extras: * extra_fields - this is a dict or callable that contains additional fields to be passed to the form, for example stuff that is in the session. * on_success - callback called if form is valid and object created/updated, if this is not set the default behaviour is to send a redirect * on_failure - callback called if form is invalid, the default is to redisplay the form. Note that once newforms are finally done these functions are likely to be redundant, as generic views will be updated to use the newforms API, so use with caution!

  • newforms
  • forms
  • generic-views
  • modelform
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Augmented TimeField

A TimeField that lets you parse a wide variety of freeform-text time descriptions. This doesn't inherit from TimeField because it doesn't use any of its functionality. Includes unit tests demonstrating some examples of what the parser will and won't handle.

  • newforms
  • timefield
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Log errors to a file

This is another example use of the [exception middleware](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/638/). It shows how to log exceptions to a file. Someone wanted to do this to avoid DOS-ing the email server in case of a silly error. (untested.)

  • middleware
  • log
  • error
  • exception
  • file
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Q marshaller

Django supports the serializing model objects, but does not support the serializing Q object like that, ============================ q = Q(username__contains="findme") model0.objects.filter(q) serialize(q) # X ============================ so I wrote a little marshaller for Q, this is example, ============================ from django.contrib.auth import models as django_models qs = django_query.Q(username__contains="spike") | django_query.Q(email__contains="spike") _m = QMarshaller() a = _m.dumps(qs) # a was serialized. When call the similiar queries in page by page, you don't need to write additional code for creating same Q(s) for filtering models, just use the serialized Q as http querystring and in the next page unserialize and apply it. That is simple life.

  • model
  • python
  • q
  • query
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chdjango

This is a convenient script for those working with different branches of Django. Place all of your branches in `~/django` (e.g., `~/django/newforms-admin`, `~/django/trunk`) and you're ready to quickly change between them. For example: `chdjango.py trunk`.

  • django
  • path
  • change
  • chdjango
  • branches
  • pth
  • site-packages
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Newforms field for decimals with a comma

This might be handy in countries where decimals are entered with a comma separating the decimal places from the integer part (for instance in Germany). It lets user enter and displays all decimals with a comma separator. I ran into this problem and couldn't find a clean internationalized way of doing it... but newforms makes it so easy to roll your own. Hope it helps someone.

  • newforms
  • locale
  • comma
  • decimal
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Passing values to a method from a template

A simple trick to let a function be called with exactly ONE argument from a Django template, by passing it via an attribute. Example: class SearchResult(object): @template_callable def highlighted(self, field): return self._xappy_result.highlight(field) result = SearchResult() result.highlighted.title {{ result.highlighted.title }}

  • template
  • templates
  • method
  • call
  • arguments
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djangoskel

Sometimes i like to try things out in a blank django project, so i created a python script which creates an out of the box working project skeleton for me: $ djangoskel.py project_name

  • project
  • skeleton
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unique validation for ModelForm

Inherit your forms from model from this ModelForm and it will check all the database fields with unique=True in `is_valid()`. This is a hack around [#5736](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5736). It is actually a part of a grand problem mentioned in [#4895](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4895). You can use this hack until the issue is fully resolved.

  • newforms
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Searchable Media

This app allows you to utilize mysql's fulltext searching over multiple models and multiple apps, letting the site search seem more intuitive, yet still allow your content to be very structured. Essentially, it creates an entire new model that associates objects to a chunk of text to search efficiently over (and index), using the contenttypes app. Simply add the post_save events to your existing models for things you want to be searched.

  • search
  • media
  • fulltext
  • mixed
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Middleware to remove the WWW from the URL

Works like the [PREPEND_WWW](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#prepend-www) setting but, instead of adding, it removes the www. Usage: In the settings file add the UrlMiddleware to the middleware list and set REMOVE_WWW = True

  • middleware
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Use MEDIA_URL in flatpages

This is a template filter to enable the use of the MEDIA_URL setting in content from the flatpages database table. It searches for {{ MEDIA_URL }} and replaces it with that found in your settings. Note: To set up, drop the above code into a file called `media_url.py` in your templatetags directory in one of your INSTALLED_APPS, and add the filter to your flatpages template like so: {% load media_url %} {{ flatpage.content|media_url }}

  • filter
  • flatpages
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