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Remember path decorator

Decorator that stores the `request.path` URL in a session variable to be used later, e.g. in a "Continue Shopping" link on a cart page. Wrap and view that you want to be able to link back to easily. When those views are called, it updates the session with the current `request.path` value. This can be pulled back out of the session whenever you need to provide a link back from whence the user came.

  • session
  • decorator
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UnicodeFixer

This snippet is for resolve the Django-PyAMF unicode problems, through the django force_unicode function called recursively, with a tuple of different charsets.

  • unicode
  • utf-8
  • object
  • latin-1
  • force_unicode
  • pyamf
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a simple tag with context

simple_tag is nice, but it would be useful if it had a "as variable" clause at the end. This little bit of code factors out the reusable parts and makes a tag almost as simple as simple_tag. Now you can create tags like the following: {% some_function 1 2 as variable %} {% some_function db person %} To add a new function, just do: register.tag("new_function", make_tag(new_function)) (I think you have to take the quotes off a string.)

  • context
  • simple_tag
  • as
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fast table flush without raw SQL

Perhaps you don't want to drop a table, but you also want to do something faster than Model.objects.all().delete() but without resorting to raw SQL. This function, clear_tables, will call the sql_flush operation on a list of tables.

  • delete
  • flush
  • fast
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Encoding datetime for JSON consumers like YUI

Passing datetimes from Python to a [YUI DataTable](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/datatable/) via JSON served by [django-piston](http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/) turned out to be surprisingly rocky. This code actually works with ``YAHOO.lang.JSON.stringToDate`` (*not* ``YAHOO.util.DataSource.parseDate``) which cannot handle time zone specifiers other than "Z" or dates without timezones. The YUI [DataSource](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/datasource/) which uses this looks something like this - note that simply setting ``format:"date"`` does not work as that uses ``YAHOO.util.DataSource.parseDate``, which uses``Date.parse`` to do the actual conversion, which will involve browser-specific formats and as of this writing only Chrome's native ``Date`` can reliably parse ISO 8601 dates. myDataSource.responseSchema = { resultsList: '…', fields: [ … { key: 'my_date_field', parser: YAHOO.lang.JSON.stringToDate }, ], … };

  • javascript
  • date
  • json
  • iso8601
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Make hyperlinks for labels of raw_id_fields (jQuery)

The Django Admin site provides a "raw ID" feature for foreign keys that reference large tables. In the form view, the label of the referenced object will appear after the input. This snippet will make that label into a hyperlink that takes you to the form view for that object. To use this snippet, copy base_site.html into your templates/admin directory (if you haven't already), and paste this code into that file somewhere after the 'extends "admin/base.html"' directive. If you are already using jQuery, you can remove the first script tag. If you are already extending "extrahead", just paste the script tag(s) into the block you have created. [Documentation for raw_id_fields](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.raw_id_fields)

  • admin
  • jquery
  • raw_id_fields
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simplified render_to_response with RequestContext

manything need to do with RequestContext, but it's too tedious. use `render_to_response("/my.html", {'key':value,},request)` instead of `render_to_response("/my.html", {'key':value,},new RequestContext(request)) ` and you can also use `render_to_response("/my.html", {'key':value,},new RequestContext(request))`

  • shortcuts
  • simplified
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jinja2 csrf_token extension

init env `env = Envoriment(extensions=('youproject.app.extensions.csrf_token'), loader=loader)` or see [http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1844/] and in settings.py: `JINJA_EXTS=('jinja2.ext.i18n','youproject.app.extensions.csrf_token',)` use this extension in jinja2 template just like django template: `<form ...>{% csrf_token %}...</form>`

  • template
  • jinja2
  • csrf
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Model Hooks

Runs model methods on save, create, update, delete Similar to Rails hooks **Usage:** *in models.py* from myproject.hooks import connect_hooks class MyModel(models.Model): #... # only on first save of a newly created object def before_create(self): print self def after_create(self): print self # not on first save of a newly created object def before_update(self): print self def after_update(self): print self # any save, new object or update def before_save(self): print self def after_save(self): print self # delete, self is still available after delete def before_delete(self): print self def after_delete(self): print self **connect_hooks(MyModel)**

  • model
  • hooks
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Override QuerySet.delete() (one way of preventing cascading deletes)

We needed to override the default QuerySet delete function to deal with a client problem that we were facing Yes This is monkey-patching, and probably bad practice but if anyone needs to conditionally override the cascading delete that django does at the application level from a queryset, this is how to do it

  • queryset
  • delete
  • monkey-patch
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Choices

This allows you to access the choices (and their respective values) you create as a dictionary. It works great within django and it allows you to reference the choices as a dictionary (CHOICES[CHOICE1]) instead of CHOICES[0][0]... it is a tuple... but I mean, come on... what if you change the order? If you need the tuple just call CHOICES.choices and it will return the standard tuple.

  • choice
  • choices
  • input
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"Save and Continue" keyboard command for admin, with autoscroll

This snippet is helpful if you do a lot of editing on a single large admin form (for example, in a rich text field), and want to frequently save your progress. If you press control-S, or command-S on a Mac, the admin change form will save and reload, and the page will scroll back down to where you last were. This snippet relies on jquery, [jquery.cookie](http://plugins.jquery.com/project/cookie), and the [shortcut.js](http://www.openjs.com/scripts/events/keyboard_shortcuts/) keyboard library (which doesn't use jquery, but seemed more robust than the jquery keyboard plugins I saw). It uses a temporary cookie to remember where the page was scrolled to, to avoid having to override the admin behavior. Note: don't put this in templates/admin/change_form.html -- the circular import causes a Django crash. *Edit: Had forgotten to include jquery.cookie, which I was already including elsewhere.*

  • admin
  • jquery
  • save
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Decorate Template Tag (In-Line include and extend with local context)

I had an issue with the django templating system, where by if I included several different files at the same level on one template.. and all the included templates extended the same base template. It would render the defined blocks for the first inclusion for all. i.e. everything in the parent that is being extended would be not updated for the subsequent inclusion. So, if anyone else has this problem. I have a solution that I sorta wanted for other reasons anyway. It's called a decorator tag, you can include and extend a template at the same time - in-line, with local context scoping so it only affects that tag. This is also a nice way to avoid creating .html files for simple extending purposes.

  • templatetags
  • extend
  • include
  • decorate
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Username filled automatically with id

I thought this code for insert automatically id in username field. This method should be used in save method. This code work on a dbms that support transactions ( example: mysql+innodb or postgresql ). Let me know what you think about this snippet and if you advice an alternative solution by commenting below. Thanks :)

  • username
  • id
  • transaction
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