Returning an object to an HTTPRequest may brake Django

2008-03-29 Thread Tiago Cogumbreiro
I am using Django SVN r7379. I was returning a 'markup.py' object that contained unicode inside. When the HTTP server of Django converted this object into a string, by using the function 'str' --- thereby converting it with the system encoding, which ignores the project's encoding --- it would cr

Enhancing get_*_by_FIELD model methods

2008-03-29 Thread Christos Τrochalakis
Hi, get_previous_by, get_next_by methods -and probably others- use the default manager to query the db. Most of the time we end up `filtering` them to emulate a manager violating the DRY principle. It would be nice if we could specify the manager, something like: get_next_by_date(manager='live'

Re: Customizable QuerySets

2008-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm -1 on this, I think the principal problem is that discourages finding the best ways to solve the problems in django itself, one of the main differences between django and other python web frameworks is that Django offers it's own option at every level of the stack, and people almost exclusivel

Re: Django Newforms

2008-03-29 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Rufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How and when do the django newforms validate forms and add errors to > the errors dictionary? As soon as you inspect ``form.errors`` or ``form.is_valid``. In the future, please ask this question on django-users; django-dev is

Django Newforms

2008-03-29 Thread Rufman
Hey Guys How and when do the django newforms validate forms and add errors to the errors dictionary? Im trying to make a dynamic form, so I add the data after creating the form class and adding the attributes. THis means that I will need to 'manually' call the form validation. Thanks for the h

Re: Customizable QuerySets

2008-03-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Indeed. If two applications each rely on different QuerySet classes, > something more fine-grained than a global setting will be needed for > them to peaceably coexist; I'd much prefer some standardized way of > extending the functionality, something we already have to an extent > via the abilit