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django-mptt enabled FilteredSelectMultiple m2m widget

If you are using django-mptt to manage content (eg heirarchical categories) then it needs a bit of help to make a nice admin interface. For many-to-many fields, Django provides the quite nice FilteredSelectMultiple widget (a two-pane selection list with search box) but it only renders 'flat' lists... if you have a big category tree it's going to be confusing to know what belongs to what. Also, list items are sorted alphabetically in the js, which won't be what you want. This snippet extends FilteredSelectMultiple to show the tree structure in the list. You'll also need the js from this snippet: [#1780](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1780/) For usage details see my blog at: [http://anentropic.wordpress.com](http://anentropic.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/more-django-mptt-goodness-filteredselectmultiple-m2m-widget/)

  • widget
  • mptt
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pyText2Pdf - Python script to convert plain text into PDF file. Modified to work with streams.

This is "pyText2Pdf" - Python script to convert plain text into PDF file. Originally written by Anand B Pillai. It is taken from http://code.activestate.com/recipes/189858/ Modified to work with streams. Example: produce PDF document from text and output it as HTTPResponse object. import StringIO input_stream = StringIO.StringIO(text) result = StringIO.StringIO() pdfclass = pyText2Pdf(input_stream, result, "PDF title") pdfclass.Convert() response = HttpResponse(result.getvalue(), mimetype="application/pdf") response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename=pdf_report.pdf' return response

  • django
  • tools
  • python
  • pdf
  • converter
  • text2pdf
  • adobe
  • acrobat
  • processing
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MPTTModelAdmin

This builds on a couple of other people's hacks to effectively manage django-mptt models via the admin. One problem you find is if you use the actions drop-down menu to ‘delete selected’ items from your mptt model… the bulk actions bypass the model’s delete method so your left/right values for the tree aren’t updated. What you need is a way to automatically rebuild the tree after a bulk action. This code provides that facility. Full details on my blog: [http://anentropic.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/](http://anentropic.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/making-admin-bulk-delete-action-work-with-django-mptt/)

  • admin
  • mptt
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Middleware: Record ownership screener

UPDATE: 'ORDER BY' in de regex is now optional If enabled while coding just keep track of your console output for: <<< WARNING >>> Query execution without ownership clause, called from "process_response" Happy coding Regards, Gerard.

  • middleware
  • user
  • permission
  • ownership
  • created_by
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django redirects middleware a bit more fleixble

This is replace for django.contrib.redirects.RedirectFallbackMiddleware which redirects exact matches as well as startswith matches for the redirect.old_path I had a problem with my urls, because are dynamically generic, so I can't create one redirect entry on the database for each possible url. So I made django redirects to search any redirect with the exact match or any database entry being the head of my url, for example: I have django redirects which redirects /calendars/3434/ --> / . But when I have a 404 on /calendars/3434/c/2009/10/23/ now it redirects properly. So my redirects now acts as /calendars/3434/*

  • generic
  • redirects
  • contrib
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Custom model field for mysql time type.

Django does not have a suitable model field can process time type in mysql, the DateTimeField built-in django can not process more than 24 hours. That's why the code born. **Simply usage** `from myapp.models import TimeAsTimeDeltaField, SECONDS_PER_MIN, SECONDS_PER_HOUR, SECONDS_PER_DAY class EstimatedTime: days = None hours = None minutes = None seconds = None class Case(models.Model): estimated_time = TimeAsTimeDeltaField(null=True, blank=True) def get_estimated_time(self): estimated_time = EstimatedTime() if self.estimated_time: total_seconds = self.estimated_time.seconds + (self.estimated_time.days * SECONDS_PER_DAY) days = total_seconds / SECONDS_PER_DAY hours = total_seconds / SECONDS_PER_HOUR - days * 24 minutes = total_seconds / SECONDS_PER_MIN - hours * 60 - days * 24 * 60 seconds = total_seconds % SECONDS_PER_MIN estimated_time.days = days estimated_time.hours = hours estimated_time.minutes = minutes estimated_time.seconds = seconds return estimated_time else: return estimated_time

  • models
  • orm
  • database
  • field
  • timedelta
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very archive template

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 view code is here: [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1766/](http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1766/) Any suggestions for design patterns are greatly appreciated.

  • archive
  • blog-entry
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Rails-like environments using Django

This is a replacement for settings.py, which moves the actual settings files into a directory called "env" and establishes different versions for different settings of the environment variable DJANGO_ENV. At runtime, the specified development environment can be found and loaded into the local context of settings.py, which is then picked up by whatever routine manage.py is kicking off.

  • django
  • rails
  • environment
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Wrappable text

Sometimes you have an uncontrolled amount of text in a horizontally constrained space. The wrappable filter places zero-width breaking spaces into the given text so that it can wrap at any point, as necessary for the containing width. Sometimes better than eliding (chopping long text...) or cropping/scrolling overflow.

  • template
  • filter
  • typography
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Field value as plain text which can't be edited by user

Shows field value as plain text which can't be edited by user. Field value (or key value for foreign keys) is stored in hiddden input. Value of field is stored in hidden input and current value is placed as plain text. User can't change it's value. If field is foreign key then additional attribute 'key' should be set to True (key is stored in hidden field and unicode value is visible): self.fields['my_field'].widget = HiddenInputWithText(attrs={ 'key' : True }) There is one condition: for foreign key field its name have to be same as lowercased model name. Default 'key' value - False is correct for non-foreign key fields: self.fields['my_field'].widget = HiddenInputWithText()

  • forms
  • hidden
  • widget
  • input
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Integer based MoneyField

It is supposed the aggregation on integer is fast than numeric type in database duo to how they are stored as numeric is represented as string. As money only have 2 decimal place, it can be converted to an Integer despite of its decimal point. The python class decimal.Decimal also has a shortcoming that it is not json serializable(neither cjson nor simplejson). This money field appears as a float number to the front end, so it does not meet the headache as DecimalField. The usage is very simple. In Model: class SomeModel(models.Model): ... income = MoneyField('income') ... Then treat the attribute of the model instance as a normal float type. **Notes** If you try to use aggregation on this field, you have to convert it to float by yourself. Currently I could not find any method to fix this.

  • money
  • db
  • field
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Author: Jay
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ContentType Form

When working with the ContentType model there are generally two issues. 1. Models are listed in the table but not imported. 2. Unicode only returns model not application so being able to select a a app/model is sometimes difficult when to applications have a model with the same name. This snippet gets a listing of imported models and creates a drop down for selection. I also included a function that uses the returned from to get and save the correct ContentType within the primary model.

  • form
  • contenttype
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