Re: SearchQuery concatenation (`&` and `|`) is either broken or documentation incomplete

2016-08-29 Thread Nicola
Hi Josh and Marc, Thank you very much for your time, pointers and help. Kind regards, Nicola On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 3:22:14 PM UTC+2, Marc Tamlyn wrote: > Yup, that sounds like an oversight on my part. The fix would be exactly as > Josh described. > > On 25 August 2

SearchQuery concatenation (`&` and `|`) is either broken or documentation incomplete

2016-08-25 Thread Nicola
tion. My unanswered questions: - Is it a bug? - Is this the intended behaviour? - If so: what needs to be done to get a note into the documentation, that only one ampersand/pipe is allowed? Thank you for your time and effort for this excellent framework! Kind Regards, Nicola

Re: Important info for translators (especially those with commit access)

2009-12-26 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
time unnecessarily backporting. I won't, sorry for wasting your time too. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimite

Re: compressed fixture support

2008-09-13 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
if Mercurial had to decompress the files in memory each time. We ended up storing the fixtures in explictly compressed form, to regain acceptable operating speed. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Like any other entrenched, complex, and often closeted industry, things in IT don't r

Re: Call for testing: new docs

2008-08-21 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
of the afflicted. But no! Don't let our grief get in the way of the good work still to be done. Only, from time to time, do spend a pious thought on our plight, and we shall be released. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ The new totalitarianism is its own justification, and nobody i

Re: Is URL template tag's syntax going to change?

2008-07-21 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Johannes Dollinger wrote: > Of course that's subjective, everything is. You're in the wrong line of work, man... ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Multiple database support

2008-05-20 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Daryl Spitzer wrote: > If I don't, I see if I can at least make enough time to write up the API > I came up with at PyCon. Please do, that would be great. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.teknico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message beca

Re: Multiple database support

2008-05-20 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
x27;s efforts, to avoid wasting time. Ben, Daryl, any news? -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.teknico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Rethinking silent failures in templates

2008-05-14 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Simon Willison wrote: > Silent errors are bad. If we were to remove them, how much of a > negative impact would it have on the existing user base? +1 from me. I always set TEMPLATE_DEBUG to True and TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID to something that stands out, during development. -- Nicola

No locking, no preemptive multithreading [Re: Threading improvements]

2008-04-06 Thread Nicola Larosa
can avoid introducing the necessity for this, it > will save everybody -- maintainers and third-party developers alike -- > a lot of trouble down the track. Locking done right means it works in > all cases, otherwise, as Craig pointed out, it's a delusion. Solving > these problems, tho

Re: Django developers in Chicago

2008-03-03 Thread Nicola Larosa
shidokan, job offers are welcome on the django-users Google group. Thank you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post

Re: Proposal: deprecated Model.__init__(*args)

2008-01-29 Thread Nicola Larosa
1 to that. No, wait, make that +1 to erasing the ruttin' posargs "feature" from the gorram *language*. Dong ma? I'll be in my bunk. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~---

Re: Patch polishing

2007-11-17 Thread Nicola Larosa
ail/twisted-python/2007-November/016328.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Most users don't care about the distinction between GET and POST (sadly, neither do many developers), but I think there is an understanding that links just lead to another page, whereas buttons perfor

Re: Debugging Django

2007-11-09 Thread Nicola Larosa
t this line: import pdb; pdb.set_trace() in sql.py, at the point you're interested in. Then run Django normally, and go to a db-based URL: you'll get a debugger prompt. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I grew up with the colonialist propaganda, the "occupier's narrative&quo

Re: Django 100% threadsafe with DB?

2007-09-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
> Nicola Larosa wrote: >> Right. What *is* is scary is how much people cling to the horrible hack >> that preemptive multithreading is. Derek Anderson wrote: > you mean to say cooperative multithreading, right? > > if so, heck yeah. dear lord in heaven yeah. Erm... wh

Re: Django 100% threadsafe with DB?

2007-09-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
. Right. What *is* is scary is how much people cling to the horrible hack that preemptive multithreading is. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Love is hate War is peace No is yes And we're all free -- Tracy Chapman, Why?, Tracy Chapman, 1988 --~--~-~--~~--

Re: Ticket 5034 Discussion

2007-09-24 Thread Nicola Larosa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 5034 is my own ticket, and I have some views about why it should be > included anyway. But maybe I am just too attached to it :) Then be careful, sometimes Trac refuses attachments to tickets, and you may be left stranded in some nowhere land. -- Nicola

Re: Visual recogintion of Django website

2007-09-17 Thread Nicola Larosa
ode.djangoproject.com/ticket/3867 Jacob: "We don't really need a favicon..." Any hint about why not? -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I'd like to get to a point where I'm making a comfortable living that's independent of any single client or employer,

Re: Migrating to new-admin...

2007-09-16 Thread Nicola Larosa
x27;s in ReStructured Text format, as all the rest of the user docs. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I'd like to get to a point where I'm making a comfortable living that's independent of any single client or employer, with complete control over my

Re: Let's schedule a Django sprint

2007-09-05 Thread Nicola Larosa
will just have a focused place > to gather, along with better communication and the other benefits of > face-to-face interaction. That's great. :-) I'll be there most of the time, Central European timezone. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Gödel's conclusion

Re: Many problems with edit_inline and unique_together

2007-08-31 Thread Nicola Larosa
_inline in newforms-admin > already...). To this end, I tried making tests for some of those tickets, but I could not find any test whatsoever for the admin interface. I would really know how should I go in making one. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Courage, self-confidence, and

Re: Time for a new release?

2007-08-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
> Nicola Larosa wrote: >> include the documentation in the frigging release, and make it usable! Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > You've completely misunderstood the question. I don't think so, but thanks for your gentle remark. ;-P Rather, I skipped saying why I think it'

Re: Time for a new release?

2007-08-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
t-release docs and the trunk docs (which isn't worth the overhead). Exactly. > Is there any other, better way to do it than how it's currently being > done? It's an imperfect system, but it's "more perfect" than the other > choice that comes to mind. Again, s

Re: Time for a new release?

2007-08-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
eding access to the web site. The users do not risk getting to the wrong version of the docs. The load on djangoproject.com lessens considerably. Cons None that I can see. It's a no-brainer to me! :-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Itamar Shtull-Trauring: reactor.stop() is

Re: Autoescaping: good time?

2007-08-04 Thread Nicola Larosa
istake blowing the security > of their application wide open. Very well said, and worth emphasizing; thanks, Simon. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Any word not used as an expletive is not being used to its fullest potent

Re: development documentation

2007-07-30 Thread Nicola Larosa
adding references to developer-interesting stuff I found recently. Maybe it could be linked from the "Contributing to Django" doc. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I have a philosophical/economical/Darwinian reason for preferring open source technology development to proprie

Re: edit_inline for a reflexive m2m_intermediary

2007-07-28 Thread Nicola Larosa
Nicola Larosa wrote: > Having followed all the steps in the bug reporting guidelines, I have > now filed ticket #4937: > > http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4937 Marked as duplicate of #1939, sorry about that. #1939 and lots of other tickets are listed at: http://code.djang

Re: docstrings

2007-07-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
ple apps side-by-side. (Yeah, I > guess that cements me as a weirdo.) ;-) Not so fast: I work exactly that way too, on a laptop's 15" display, wide format. But then, I've been labeled a weirdo myself more than once, so I cannot really disprove your notion. ;-) -- Nicola Lar

Re: docstrings

2007-07-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
True Way? http://bluebones.net/2006/12/column-width-what-is-the-one-true-way/ Wrapping code at 80 columns? http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware4/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=128655 -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Right now we have two wildly advanced platforms: the desktop operat

Re: docstrings

2007-07-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
ot in conflict with PEP 8 or > PEP 257. Are Django committers willing to accept patches that reformat lines within 80 characters? -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ If web applications liberated us from the domination of a single company on the desktop, why would we be eager to be do

Re: docstrings

2007-07-25 Thread Nicola Larosa
line. Turning on line wrapping makes things even > harder to read! +1 This somewhat bothers me too. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Our criticisms of WS-* are specific and have to do with issues of process and stability and technical quality and a demonstrated lack of intero

Re: edit_inline for a reflexive m2m_intermediary

2007-07-21 Thread Nicola Larosa
> Nicola Larosa wrote: >> Having followed all the steps in the bug reporting guidelines, I have >> now filed ticket #4937: Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > You should note that the bug reporting guidelines don't suggest you > should announce tickets on django-developer

Re: edit_inline for a reflexive m2m_intermediary

2007-07-20 Thread Nicola Larosa
, whatever. Having followed all the steps in the bug reporting guidelines, I have now filed ticket #4937: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/4937 Do what you will with it, and thank you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ The Christian religion, like those of Judaism, Islam and a

edit_inline for a reflexive m2m_intermediary

2007-07-20 Thread Nicola Larosa
/defaulttags.py" in render 134. nodelist.append(node.render(context)) File ".../django/contrib/admin/templatetags/admin_modify.py" in render 171. bound_related_object = relation.bind( context['form'], original, bound_related_object_class) File ".../dja

Re: please help! need to know python version

2007-07-06 Thread Nicola Larosa
> James Bennett wrote: >> Django is compatible with any version of Python greater than 2.3 Don Arbow wrote: > You mean >=, right? :-) Well, 2.3.6 is strictly greater than 2.3 . ;-) http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.3.6/ -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I

Re: please help! need to know python version

2007-07-06 Thread Nicola Larosa
Carl Karsten wrote: > Python code is not developed in Python. You should talk to the PyPy guys/gals someday. ;-) > that can be debated, but for the purposed of this thread, I think it > fits. Oh, you already took the above comment into account. :-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.te

Re: Documentation should never show non-working examples. - was: "@cache_page" bug...

2007-07-05 Thread Nicola Larosa
jedie wrote: > Sorry, you have misunderstood this. Thus I have not meant this. ;) > > Fixing the ticket #1015 is not important to me. Insisting on telling people what to do, and not really doing anything yourself, is obnoxious. Please make a patch first, and then quibble, preferably in the tick

Re: Shared memory across processes

2007-06-27 Thread Nicola Larosa
e good already. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Q: Aside from Dojo, what is your favorite Ajax framework? A: MochiKit. YUI is great code too, but MochiKit has it beat for clarity of vision and implementation quality. Bob Ippolito gets the constraints of the web. That, and I'm a Py

KIPS (Keep It Personal, Stupid!) [was: Re: International standard for date and time]

2007-06-19 Thread Nicola Larosa
beings that use them. (Many other human facets still elude our machines, but that would be doubly off-topic. ;-) ) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I'm not expecting Ubuntu to be perfect, but I am now certain it will be enough better to compensate me for the fact that I need to lea

Re: django-values -> django-policy?

2007-05-31 Thread Nicola Larosa
_Days] Don't know about months, but there's already a Physical Modeling Sound Synthesizer Board under your name: http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?A_PROD_NO=EXBMOSS -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Anyone who says their ambition is "to be famous" is a fragile eg

Re: django-values -> django-policy?

2007-05-30 Thread Nicola Larosa
> Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: >> I'm going to make a dictatorial call to paint the bikeshed MY color. Jason Davies wrote: > +1. What part of "dictatorial" is not clear? ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get

Re: django-values -> django-policy?

2007-05-29 Thread Nicola Larosa
James Bennett wrote: > In all seriousness: django.contrib.bikeshed. Magenta! Shall we paint it magenta? Pretty please? -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Microsoft went berserk; tried unsuccessfully to get me fired as co-editor, and then launched a vicious, deeply personal exten

Re: + Important: Repent, Completely trust in God only and, Love Him with all of your heart.

2007-05-14 Thread Nicola Larosa
Luke Plant wrote: > I imagine the atheists on this list find it even more annoying, In the meanwhile we, the agnostic ones, simply skip it. ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ That's what *professionals* do. They are always learning. Always. Because nothing you learn abou

Re: Session unpickle exceptions silenced

2007-04-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
: raise Let's have more of those. :-) -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ PHP lends itself to a style of coding that is so not DRY, it's like coding underwater. -- Sean Schertelli, September 2006 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You recei

Re: The locmem patch and development progress

2007-04-18 Thread Nicola Larosa
very sorry if any of the above comes off as dickish. It doesn't to me. You may want to save a copy of this message, it may come out useful next month. ;-) -- Nicola Larosa - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crypto is like an ATM that only lets you get money after you authenticate yourself with your card and P

Re: [Changeset] r4828 - django/trunk/django/conf/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES

2007-03-26 Thread Nicola Larosa
ith allowing locale maintainers to commit > directly (it's pretty normal on a lot of other projects), I don't think > there's a technical reason for having the names in the code, so we > should be consistent. Ok, go ahead and strip the italian translation

OFFTOPIC: Italian translation ready [was: Re: Constraints and MySQL]

2007-02-27 Thread Nicola Larosa
Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > Right now #2333 is all that 0.96 is waiting on Please don't forget #1984. Thank you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ When talking about Security, most people think about something where "they" attack and "we" defend. If the

Please encourage PsycoPG 2 usage (not 1!)

2007-02-08 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Dear devs, please apply the patch in ticket #3364 as soon as possible. There's still people around that do not use PsycoPG 2, because of that obsolete note in doc/install.txt . Thank you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ I've heard that some people have a saying: "P

Re: Auto-escaping patch

2007-02-07 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
that seem to have the features you need, and are mostly written in Python. It's not that one always aspires to a wholly Pythonic world (well, not when fully awake, at least ;-) ), but if the tools are Pythonic, it should be easier hacking *on* them, instead of just with them, if and when need

Re: Encouraging contributed documentation

2007-02-05 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
ghtly http://e-scribe.com/news/307 -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ The thing is, self-consciousness and despair are nouns. They don't *move*. But love is a verb, and it makes things real. -- Phillip J. Eby, August 2006 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: Autoescaping for 1.0

2007-01-12 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
46606 Speaking of Django 1.0, it also contains this promise from Adrian: :-) "Note that at the moment Django needs an environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE, as Guido mentioned, but that dependency for the template system will soon go away -- as I mentioned in a previous comment in

Re: Proposal: Named auth backends and backend specific profiles

2007-01-11 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
by yours truly: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/odict.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Don't get me wrong, I like Ruby. And it's not particularly difficult to read. But the philosophy of the language designers led to design choices that emphasize writability over re

That would be *cookieless* [was: Stateless sessions almost here]

2007-01-10 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
n't actually care that much but I > thought it would be a fun hack. "Stateless session" is an oxymoron, there's no such thing. You're talking about *cookieless* sessions. Yes, REST-purist speaking here. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ In the developed wor

Re: Have a look at django.newforms

2007-01-09 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
ization hooks and > various Django functions, but it's still an eventual goal. We're going to use newforms in a project centered on another framework, so it would be great if you could keep minimizing the dependencies it has on the rest of Django. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekN

Moving old-style classes to new-style

2006-06-07 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
o you. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Continuation-based web frameworks (like Seaside) seem lame to me. I'm so much more impressed by event-based programming, and continuations (used in that way) seem like a way to avoid explicit events. Events are the web. Continuations are people w

Re: the so-called [AUDIT]

2006-06-02 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
C8E wrote: > and maybe also > > http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ilias > > ;) Didn't want to steal your thunder, pal, but since you weren't speaking up, I did. Thanks for that URL! :-) -- Nicola Larosa

We're being had

2006-06-02 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
Ilias Lazaridis is a known Internet troll. http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Ilias Let's stop feeding him/her/it, it's just a waste of time. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ Users know the business better than you do, whoever you are. If you are willing to

Re: Patch review procedure?

2006-05-31 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
on jewel, as fast as Git, more concise than Bazaar-ng, and command-compatible with Subversion. It also has a plugin for interaction with Trac, albeit not integrated yet. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ we do what we're told we do what we're told we do what we're told told t

Re: OT: arbitrary precision decimals for Python?

2006-05-29 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
g/lib/module-decimal.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups

Re: svn merge problem

2006-05-17 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
p://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2006-April/007822.html http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2006-May/008268.html -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Re: svn merge problem

2006-05-16 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> /me makes another note to spend some serious time with BZR... Try spending some time with Mercurial, too. It's simpler, smaller and faster than Bazaar-NG, while also being written in Python, with a little C. -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tek

Re: Building the documentation locally

2006-05-15 Thread Nicola Larosa (tekNico)
> Welcome, Nicola! And thanks very much for your documentation patch; > I've committed it. You're welcome. BTW, there's more where that came from: see the same ticket (#1815). -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~--