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RSS feed with content:encoded elements

This creates an RSS feed that has "content:encoded" elements for each item in the feed. The "description" is best used for a brief summary of the entry, while the extra ["content:encoded"](http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content#syntax2) element is designed for the entire contents of something. This is the code I'm using for a weblog app. The main features you'd need to copy to add "content:encoded" elements to your own feed are: * **ExtendedRSSFeed()** -- this is used to create a new kind of feed generator class that will know about these extra elements. * **feed_type = ExtendedRSSFeed** -- we tell the feed class which feed generator class to use. * **item_extra_kwargs()** -- we add the "content:encoded" element to each item. This populates the element by calling... * **item_content_encoded()** -- this prepares the actual content. The name doesn't have to be in this format, but it seemed sensible to follow convention. The body of my weblog Entries are split into two parts and here it makes sure we add both parts, both of which contain HTML (which the syndication classes will encode appropriately.

  • feed
  • rss
  • content
  • syndication
  • feeds
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A RegexpField that clean the regex match using the desired format

I wanted a way to allow flexible phone number validation while making sure the saved data was uniform. ex. With: RegexFormatField(r'^\(?(?P<area>\d{3})\)?[-\s.]?(?P<local>\d{3})[-\s.]?(?P<subscriber>\d{4})$', format='%(area)s %(local)s-%(subscriber)s') input: (444) 444-4444 444 444-4444 444-444-4444 444.444.4444 4444444444 output: 444 444-4444

  • regex
  • format
  • field
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Initially open collapsable fieldset class in admin

It's just an extension for the admin. Replace the collapse.js (collapse.min.js) and use it like this in the admin fieldset option: ´´**'classes': ['collapse', 'open']**´´. Without the 'open'-class, it will work as usual. *Needs possibly fixing for IE <= 8* because IE doesn't support the ´´:not´´ selector.

  • fieldset
  • collapse
  • collapsed
  • open
  • show
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Improved many-page pagination

This one was adapted from [Page numbers with ... like in Digg](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1441/). See that one for more reference. Digg-like page numbering using inclusion tag. Usage in template: `{% load pagination %} {% pagination yourpage %}` Inclusion template pagination.html: {% if page.has_previous %} <a href="?page={{ page.previous_page_number }}"><img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}images/page/cyclenav_l.png" alt="Previous page" /></a> {% endif %} {% for pnum in begin %} <a href="?page={{ pnum }}"{% if page.number == pnum %} class="active"{% endif %}>{{ pnum }}</a> {% endfor %} {% if middle %} <strong>...</strong> {% for pnum in middle %} <a href="?page={{ pnum }}"{% if page.number == pnum %} class="active"{% endif %}>{{ pnum }}</a> {% endfor %} {% endif %} {% if end %} <strong>...</strong> {% for pnum in end %} <a href="?page={{ pnum }}"{% if page.number == pnum %} class="active"{% endif %}>{{ pnum }}</a> {% endfor %} {% endif %} {% if page.has_next %} <a href="?page={{ page.next_page_number }}"><img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}images/page/cyclenav_l.png" alt="Previous page" /></a> {% endif %}` Produces: previous_img 1 2 ... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ... 17 18 next_img Or: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 17 18 next_img Or: previous_img 1 2 ... 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 next_img

  • tag
  • django
  • templatetag
  • pagination
  • digg
  • pages
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create_template_postgis-ubuntu_lucid

The template creation script referenced [here] (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/install/#ubuntudebian) doesn't work on Ubuntu Lucid, where the default PostgreSQL version is now 8.4 and some things have been moved around. I've edited the script to work on Ubuntu Lucid.

  • postgis
  • ubuntu
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Template tag to create a list from one or more variables and/or literals

This code is taken from a [Stack Overflow answer by Will Hardy](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3715550/creating-a-list-on-the-fly-in-a-django-template/3715794#3715794). Usage: `{% collect var1 var2 'foo' 'bar' 5 as some_list %}`. Sometimes one wishes to create a list on the fly within a template. Perhaps a collection needs to be passed to a template filter, but the collection cannot be created in the view since the values of one or more of its items are set in the template. A contrived example: {% with 5 as max %}{% with posts|length as len %} {% for post in posts %} {% if forloop.counter <= max %} {% include 'excerpt.dhtml' %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} {% collect len max as limits %} <p>Displaying {{ limits|minimum }} of {{ len }} post{{ posts|pluralize }}.</p> {% endwith %}{% endwith %} The final line will state how many posts are displayed: something like "5 of 24" or "2 of 2". This particular problem can be solved in a number of other ways, some of which are more appropriate. Having a template tag that can create lists on the fly is potentially useful in quite a few situations, though. I don't know whether this need is common enough to warrant being in the core. If something like this is to be included one day, it'd be much nicer to overload the `with` tag than to introduce a new tag. `{% with var1 var2 var3 as some_list %}` reads well.

  • template-tags
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ForeignKey filterspec

Unfortunately, it is not possible currently to use foreign keys in list filter of the admin website. list_filter=['city__country'] doesn't work. This filter spec tries to workaround this problem. It is also possible to have 2 filters for a foreign-key field but it requires to add a dummy field to the model. Set the fk_filterspec dictionnary on this dummy field and add 'fk':'real-field' to the dict.

  • foreignkey
  • django-admin
  • filterspec
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Multiple cache backend

Sometimes you might find useful to cache a value in different backends. Just put this code in a file named "multicache.py" somewhere in your python path and set it in CACHE_BACKEND setting: CACHE_BACKEND = 'multicache://?fallback=1&backends=file:///var/tmp/django_cache,locmem://' Separate the backends settings with commas, the first one will be set as default. Setting fallback to 1 provides fallback to default backend.

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Django code generator

django-app-generator takes as an input your project (ORM) and generates repetitive code. At this moment there is only one example a simple RESTservice, but goal is to build alternative implementation of admin panel that will be fully customizable. The project is in the beta stage, if you encounter any problems feel free to create an issue.

  • Admin
  • REST
  • code-generator
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ReportBug() (exception emails - ala django debug style)

ReportBug() allows you to send exception details to you, via email, but with far more detail than the default. It uses the base function for the traceback used by the Debug mode on Django. This is a first revision, so the emails have no decent styling, but it works, and shows scope on each stack. It will automatically generate a random serial number per error, so you can track them in your favourite bug tracker. It also has support for you to pass it a request variable, so the mail would also contain request/response context. Again, i'm gonna look into doing this manually in the future. Hope this helps! Mwah. Cal Leeming. cal [at] simplicitymedialtd.co.uk. Simplicity Media Ltd.

  • email
  • debug
  • mail
  • exception
  • report
  • bug
  • mail_admins
  • reportbug
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ModelValue for djagno-livesettings

Extension for django-livesettings project - http://bitbucket.org/bkroeze/django-livesettings/ Allow to specify the model instance in settings Usage: config_register( ModelValue(BASE_GROUP, 'TestValue', queryset = Value.objects.all(), required=False)

  • livesettings
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Parse custom template tag's args or kwargs

Enhanced version of snippet [1113](http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1113/) Usage example (not self-contained): @register.tag def groupurl(parser, token): ''' Syntax:: {% groupurl view_name group [key=val, [key=val, ...]] [as varname] %} Example:: <a href="{% groupurl blog_detail group slug=blog.slug %}">{{ blog.name }}</a> ''' bits = token.contents.split() tag_name = bits[0] if len(bits) < 3: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("'%s' takes tag at least 2 arguments (path to a view and a group)" % (tag_name,) bits_iter = iter(bits[1:]) # view_name + group and url kwargs args, kwargs = parse_args_and_kwargs(parser, bits_iter, stop_test='as', tagname=tag_name) if len(args) != 2: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("'%s' takes exactly two non-kwargs (path to a view and a group)" % (tag_name,)) view_name, group = args # as var asvar = None for bit in bits_iter: asvar = bit return GroupURLNode(view_name, group, kwargs, asvar)

  • tag
  • templatetag
  • parse
  • args
  • kwargs
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One step up from __icontains

The [REGEX and IREGEX](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#iregex) operators were added in Django 1.0 and I'm sure you can think of fancier ways of doing word delimiting and things like that but this was all I needed to make a user-friendly autocomplete search function.

  • ORM
  • QuerySet
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