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Multiple Choice model field

Usually you want to store multiple choices as a manytomany link to another table. Sometimes however it is useful to store them in the model itself. This field implements a model field and an accompanying formfield to store multiple choices as a comma-separated list of values, using the normal CHOICES attribute. You'll need to set maxlength long enough to cope with the maximum number of choices, plus a comma for each. The normal get_FOO_display() method returns a comma-delimited string of the expanded values of the selected choices. The formfield takes an optional max_choices parameter to validate a maximum number of choices.

  • multiple
  • model
  • form
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Quiet runserver

It's quite common to use Django's `static.serve` functionality to serve media assets via the built-in development server. However, I always find that this is far too noisy - every asset produces a line of output on the console, and any debug messages I want to put there are hard to see. This management command monkey-patches the built-in `runserver` command so that it only generates a line of output for actual Django views - anything else is served as usual, but is not logged to the console. In fact the original version was already doing this for admin media, but not for your own media - I've just extended the logic. Put this in the management/commands directory of an installed app, saving it as (for example) `runserver_quiet`, then just do `./manage.py runserver_quiet` to run - it will accept all the same arguments as the built-in version.

  • runserver
  • management-command
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