I'm finding this much more efficient (from a coding perspective) than using the `render_to_response` shortcut. It looks complex, but it's simple to use: just look at the example in the docstring. Call this script `renderer.py` and chuck it in your project root.
Useful for when you want to use an instance's values as the initial values of a form which you didn't use `form_for_instance` to create. Handles foreign keys and many-to-many fields just fine.
**Now redundant any anything >0.96**, as `form_for_*` methods now have a `fields` attribute `formfield_callback`s are a bit difficult to use, here's a helper method to create a callback function to use with the `form_for_instance` and `form_for_model` methods. Example usage: person_callback = new_callback(exclude=['password', 'can_add_staff', 'is_staff']) def form_for_person(person): return form_for_instance(person, formfield_callback=person_callback)
Rather than using the full GZipMiddleware, you may want to just compress some views. This decorator lets you do that. @gzip_compress def your_view(request, ...): ....
This is a ModelAdmin base class you can use to make foreign key references to User a bit nicer in admin. In addition to showing a user's username, it also shows their full name too (if they have one and it differs from the username). **2009-08-14**: updated to handle many to many fields and easily configure whether to always show the username (if it differs from full name)