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breadcrumbs

With this script you can create a simple breadcrumbs line for navigation: Home >> Page >> Subpage ...

  • breadcrumbs
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Alter Column Lengths of Contrib Apps

If you want to modify the length of a column of a contrib application, you can either modify django (cumbersome) or you can run a post_syncdb signal hook. Related: [Ticket 4748](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4748)

  • signals
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Raise Exception on invalid template variable

This recipe raises an exception if there is an invalid variable in the template. See [#6766](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6766) Note: I don't need this snippet any more, since I don't use the template language any more. For my projects using only python is better (complex logic, simple layout).

  • template_string_if_invalid
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Clean Reversion History: Remove unimportant Changes

If you use this pattern to track changes in the auth user table: from django.contrib.auth.models import User from reversion.helpers import patch_admin patch_admin(User) you can't see important changes, since a version is created for every login if a user. If you want to get rid of changes which only change unimportant stuff you can use this middleware. This middleware can be used for every model. Just use this pattern in your settings: REVERSION_CLEAN={ 'django.contrib.auth': {'User': ['last_login']}, }

  • reversion
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Timedelta Database Field

This subclass of django.models.Field stores a python datetime.timedelta object as an integer column in the database. It includes a TimedeltaFormField for editing it through djangos admin interface. Feedback welcome. 2011-04-20: TimedeltaField can now be (de)serialized. Tested with JSON. 2009-11-23: `_has_changed()` added. Before form.changed_data contained timedelta FormFields, even if nothing changed.

  • datetime
  • timedelta
  • dbfield
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SQL Log Middleware + duplicates

This is based on [Snippet 161](/snippets/161/) It marks duplicated SQL queries. To avoid duplicates read: [Caching and Queryset](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#caching-and-querysets) Sept. 07: Updated for current trunk: 'response' behaves like 'response.header' 22. October '07: Log into directory.

  • sql
  • middleware
  • log
  • profile
  • debug
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lazy url reverse()

Since the decorators of your views are evaluated during parsing urls.py you have an 'chicken - egg' problem. The method reverse() can't be used since urls.py is not read. This snippets evaluates reverse() lazy. [Related ticket: 5925](http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5925) Django 1.4 (current trunk) has a lazy reverse.

  • decorator
  • reverse
  • lazy
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check if form has changed (deprecated)

This is deprecated. I don't use it anymore, since forms now have the attribute "has_changed". The method form_changed() returns a boolean value. It is True if the submitted values of the bound and valid form are different than the initial values. It works for me. Feedback welcome. Set debug=True if you want to know what's going on.

  • deprecated
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Cookie based Messages (deprecated)

DEPRECATED: Django has cookie based messages since version 1.2 This messages stores messages for the user in a cookie. I prefer this to session based messages, because the session column is a hot spot in the database if one user works with several browser tabs/windows.

  • x
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Pass db.Field to newforms.Widget

Deprecated. I don't use this any more. Hi, I want decimal input which uses a comma as decimal seperator. It was quite complicated, but it works. It can be used as an example how to create an own subclass of an existing db.Field class and how to pass the dbfield to the widget, and use it in its render() method. I think my snippet is too complicated, but couldn't find a better solution. If you do, please tell me.

  • newforms
  • i18n
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HTML to POST dict converter

If you want to test a post request to a form, you need to give all input fields, even if you just want to test if one value gets changed. This snippets parses the HTML of a view and gives you a dictionary that you can give to django.test.Client.

  • testing
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