a question about close the database connection after a request finished

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i use the branch 'multiple-db-support' of django, django will close the database connection after a request finished, and i read the source code django/db/__init__.py, i think the behavior cause by the code 'dispatcher.connect(self.close, signal=signals.request_finished)' in class ConnectionInfo

Re: Feature Request with Code: Support Single View-URL Files

2006-12-01 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 12/2/06, Michael Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL: > For Django application modules, I find it easier to have the URL > information for a view coupled with the function that is going to > display that view. Why? This further supports the DRY (Don't Repeat > You

Re: Feature Request with Code: Support Single View-URL Files

2006-12-01 Thread Michael O'Keefe
Thanks for the comments. I wasn't aware of the ROOT_VIEW proposal (brand new to the mailing list). I couldn't tell from a quick read-over if ROOT_VIEW would allow me to specify the URL for a view in the same place I define a view--the functionality I'm really interested in--the thing that prompt

Re: Re: Default representation of a Form

2006-12-01 Thread James Bennett
On 12/1/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree that laying out a form with CSS is not a very clean thing. But > it does give you a way to change the layout with just CSS (like moving > labels to the left or to the top of a field). And with tables you can't > do it in practice. It

Re: Feature Request with Code: Support Single View-URL Files

2006-12-01 Thread James Bennett
On 12/1/06, Michael Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SUMMARY OF PROPOSAL: > For Django application modules, I find it easier to have the URL > information for a view coupled with the function that is going to > display that view. Ehh... the word "coupling" scares me ;) > Why? This fu

Re: So, Guido *is* using Django

2006-12-01 Thread Jay Parlar
On 12/1/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd read somewhere that he expresses a preference for Django, but seems > he's using it for real work: > > "Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, has begun > showing off his first project since joining Google last year ... The

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Brantley Harris
Another (sorry, I'm pretty sure this is my last today). A label keyword would be great for specifying the label for the field. password2 = CharField(widget=PasswordInput, label="Password (again):") Would render: Password (again): --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Brantley Harris
One other thing: -- newforms/forms.py - line 40 -- def __init__(self, data=None, auto_id=False): # TODO: prefix stuff self.ignore_errors = data is None Change to: def __init__(self, data=None, auto_id=False): # TODO: prefix stuff self.ignore_errors = not bool(data) That way yo

Re: Default representation of a Form

2006-12-01 Thread Brantley Harris
Bah. I wish all the browsers supported "display: table-cell", that would take care of all of this nonsense. On 12/1/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brantley Harris wrote: > > Maybe good practice, but not practical. I'd love to not have to use > > tables. But practical CSS just

Feature Request with Code: Support Single View-URL Files

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Patrick O'Keefe
Hello All, First off, let me start by saying I love the Django framework (you guys got me into listening to the music as well). So, the relevant message there is: "Thank you to everyone who's made this happen!" I have a feature request that I've already implemented on my end that I'd like

So, Guido *is* using Django

2006-12-01 Thread James
I'd read somewhere that he expresses a preference for Django, but seems he's using it for real work: "Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, has begun showing off his first project since joining Google last year ... The application is built on top of Python open source libra

Re: Default representation of a Form

2006-12-01 Thread Ivan Sagalaev
Brantley Harris wrote: > Maybe good practice, but not practical. I'd love to not have to use > tables. But practical CSS just isn't there yet. Many web sites prove otherwise though :-) > Yes, tables aren't > good for general layout, but they still have their uses, and forms are > a prime examp

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Honza Král
On 12/1/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Honza Král wrote: > > I get a ProgrammingError, the SQL command is missing quotes around the > > value in question. I worked around this using str( > > form.clean()['form_field'] ), but that doesn't strike me as very nice. > > As far as I rem

Re: Default representation of a Form

2006-12-01 Thread Waylan Limberg
Brantley Harris wrote: > Maybe good practice, but not practical. I'd love to not have to use > tables. But practical CSS just isn't there yet. Yes, tables aren't > good for general layout, but they still have their uses, and forms are > a prime example. > A table's uses generally consist of

Re: Default representation of a Form

2006-12-01 Thread Brantley Harris
Maybe good practice, but not practical. I'd love to not have to use tables. But practical CSS just isn't there yet. Yes, tables aren't good for general layout, but they still have their uses, and forms are a prime example. On 11/30/06, Ivan Sagalaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say not

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Brantley Harris
Awesome. I approve. I'm warming to the whole "Widget" thing. Although I hate that name, as it's specifically nondescript, I can't think of another. Some comments: I'd like to see auto_id default to "id_%s" rather than False. Why not just give it as the default? I love clean_XXX(), and clean()

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If there's one more suggestion that I can make...when creating models, > there's a separate CharField and TextField. In newforms, it seems that > there's no such distinction, so an as_textarea function determines its > display (if I'm see

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > I think you may be missing something. :) A Form is a collection of > Fields, which are validation / data types. Each Field has a Widget, > which is an HTML representation of the field. Got it now, thanks, and newforms is really shaping up to be great. :) If there's one m

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Adrian Holovaty
On 12/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm missing something, but is there any way to associate a Widget > with a Form, or do those need to be instantiated separately? > > In all of the unit tests, the Forms only consist of a collection of > Fields, but in almost every us

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > So, then, I'd encourage everybody to play around with django.newforms > and post a message if you have any issues or thoughts. There is no > formal documentation, but the unit tests are *quite extensive* and > serve as pretty good documentation. The unit tests live in the

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2006-12-01 Thread Gábor Farkas
Adrian Holovaty wrote: > On 11/30/06, gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> but if i want to render it in a template and it contains non-ascii text, >> it fails in /home/gabor/src/django/django/template/__init__.py, >> line 745, UnicodeEncodeError. >> >> the code there calls str() on the form, and i