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Fix duplicate first page of paginated results

Search engines might conclude there's duplicate content if `/some_view/` and `/some_view/?page=1` returns the same results. This middleware redirects `?page=1` to the URL without the page parameter. You can set the name of the parameter in settings.py as `PAGE_VAR`. See [here](http://www.muhuk.com/2009/08/a-civilized-way-display-lots-of-data/) for more details.

  • middleware
  • pagination
  • seo
  • paginate
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Save a model using an arbitrary db connection

This function lets you save an instance of a model to another database based on a connection argument. Useful when doing data migrations across databases. Connection is anything that would work as a django.db.connection I'm not sure if this handles proxy models or model inheritance properly, though.

  • multi-db
  • connection
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Arbitrary length formset

A formset class where you can add forms as you discover the need within your code. There is also the ability to add ManagmentForm fields. If you ever found yourself in a situation where 1) you have repeated forms that need to be displayed in different locations, or 2) if you find the application logic works better if you add forms as you discover you need them, this code will help you out. Below is pseudo code based on a real implementation I used. Each form had a save button and the SELECTED_PAYMENT field was set through JavaScript. It is very difficult to use JavaScript with repeated forms, without using a formset. from myProject.myApp import myFormsUtils from myProject.myApp.forms import PaymentForm SELECTED_PAYMENT = 'SELECTED_PAYMENT' # extra_fields format: {Field name: (Field type, Initial value)} l_extra_fields = {SELECTED_PAYMENT: (forms.IntegerField, -1)} PaymentFormSetType = myFormsUtils.formset_factory(PaymentForm, extra=0, extra_fields=l_extra_fields) if request.method == 'POST': paymentFormSet = PaymentFormSetType(data=request.POST) if paymentFormSet.is_valid(): li_curFormIdx = pagaFormSet.management_form.cleaned_data[SELECTED_PAYMENT] paymntForm = paymentFormSet.forms[li_curFormIdx] ... do stuff ... # To generate the formset paymentFormSet = PagamentoFormSetType() # You can re-add a form retrieved (as in the one above) l_form = paymentFormSet.add_form(paymntForm) # Or use the add function just like creating a new form l_form = paymentFormSet.add_form(personID=argPersonID, propID=argPropID, year=argYr, amt=lc_Amt) I then stored the `l_form` variables above directly into a unique Context structure and displayed them each individually in my template. Of course this also meant that I also had to output the `paymentFormSet.management_form` explicitly within my template. EDIT 09-11-2009: Modified the initial_form_count() method to properly handle initial form values in conjunction with dynamically added forms.

  • form
  • formset
  • factory
  • arbitrary-length
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Get object/list or None

1. Function - get_obj_or_none Returns an object or a None Value 2. Function - get_list_or_none Returns a list object or None Value

  • "get_obj_or_none"
  • "get_list_or_none"
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ScriptPrefixMiddleware

Adds http://hostname or https://hostname before every URL generated by a Django url function. **Example:** Normally, something like YourModel().get_absolute_url() would return `/2009/09/02/slug`. However, this is not an absolute URL, because it does not include an HTTP schema or host. With this middleware, YourModel().get_absolute_url() will return `http://yourdomain.com/2009/09/02/slug`. This will also work for calls to reverse() or the {% url %} template tag. **Installation:** Drop this code into yourproject/middleware/scriptprefix.py. **Usage:** In your settings.py, add: MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = ( # ... 'yourproject.middleware.scriptprefix.ScriptPrefixMiddleware', # ... )

  • url
  • domain
  • get_absolute_url
  • host
  • set_script_prefix
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Conditional Caching

This trick is for caching a view only if it passes some condition, for example, if there are more than zero items in a list. The same methodology could be used for conditional applying of other decorators.

  • views
  • cache
  • decorators
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Optimized humanize naturalday filter

In Django humanize naturalday filter, you could not get the time part since a programming issue, If you apply it like: {% load humanize %} {{ response.date_submitted|naturalday:"Y/n/j H:i" }} You can get 'today', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow' or empty, but you can not get such as '2009/9/10 11:56' So I change it like above code. Now you can get 'today', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow' or '2009/9/10 11:56'

  • original-bug-fixes
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Author: c2j
  • 1
  • 3

Search DjangoSnippets with Firefox

You have to put this code in your *searchengines* Firefox folder in a file called **djangosnippets.xml** After restarting Firefox, you will be able to seek DjangoSnippets very easily. I also create a favicon.ico since djangosnippets.org didn't have one ... Path example : /usr/lib/iceweasel/searchplugins/djangosnippets.xml

  • xml
  • firefox
  • djangosnippets
  • searchengine
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TemplateForm

This a mixin that can be used to render forms from predefined templates instead of using .as_table / .as_p / .as_ul

  • template
  • form
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Render Decorator

Simple decorator to render an html template or return a json response. The view must return a dict object. Usage example: @render('page.html') def a_view(request): #do something return {'key': 'value'}

  • render
  • decorator
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Django Uri Param Generator

This is a simple URI Querystring generator that can be used with Django for generating URI Querystring and preserving the current Currently working to port into a template tag to allow {% urlgen page|5 %} {% urlgen page 5 %} {% urlgen page,5 %} OR {% urlgen sort name display all %} etc..

  • pagination
  • url
  • uri
  • djangourl
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Interactive debugger and other Paste niceties

runserver with extra development tools: 1. interactive debugger that pops up automatically if an exception occurs, courtesy of [Werkzeug](http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/documentation/dev/debug.html#using-the-debugger) 2. logging of print statements directly into HTML (div float), courtesy of [Paste](http://pythonpaste.org/modules/debug.prints.html). Credits: [piranha.org.ua](http://piranha.org.ua/)

  • print
  • django
  • debugging
  • paste
  • wsgi
  • werkzeug
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