I needed a way to alter settings at runtime, based on the current
Site. The method I came up with appears to work, but certainly
doesn't feel elegant and (I'm sure) could use improvement. I'm going
to share my reasoning behind dynamic settings in the hopes that it
sparks some discussion about ho
I think a better approach would be to have django.utils.simplejson as
a sort of alias package (which is easy using Python's introspection).
What would happen is this:
A user imports either django.utils.simplejson, or something from
inside it.
We look for the 'json' package on the path (Python 2.6
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 8:10 AM, David Reynolds
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That doesn't help if you want to continue using the login/logout views
> from django.contrib.auth.views
Since you can drop callables directly into URL patterns, you can write
a decorator which does what you need, import t
On 1 Dec 2008, at 12:27, Julien Phalip wrote:
> I think you could achieve that without patching Django. You could
> simply create a custom view which wraps around auth.logout and calls
> your other method.
That doesn't help if you want to continue using the login/logout views
from django.cont
On Dec 1, 11:07 pm, David Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 1 Dec 2008, at 11:49, David Reynolds wrote:
> > I have a custom authentication backend that requires a method to be
> > run to log out of the system. It would be quite useful if there was a
> > way
> > to hook into the django.cont
On 1 Dec 2008, at 11:49, David Reynolds wrote:
>
> I have a custom authentication backend that requires a method to be
> run to log out of the system. It would be quite useful if there was a
> way
> to hook into the django.contrib.auth.logout method to run this custom
> method.
>
> The best way
I have nothing against removing it from the built-in libs, but as long
as we look for the system's libraries first what's the big downside to
keeping it?
On Dec 1, 5:02 am, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:21 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a custom authentication backend that requires a method to be
run to log out of the system. It would be quite useful if there was a
way
to hook into the django.contrib.auth.logout method to run this custom
method.
The best way I can think of is to add a logout method to the
authen
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:21 PM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Russell Keith-Magee
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I guess the thing that's bugging me is that this mostly seems to come
> down to historical inertia; we already have simplejson in Django,
