Helping a Newbie

2016-09-05 Thread Dávid Főző
Dear Devs, I would like to contribute to the Django code base as a python developer. I am a user of Django, but haven't delved on into the code itself that thoroughly. After I read through the documentation a couple times, it's still not clear how do you select the ticket. I mean how do you kno

Re: Struggling newbie

2016-08-24 Thread Berker Peksağ
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:12 PM, wrote: > I am running python3.4 with Django in virtualenv. When I execute python > manage.py runserver I continue to get "sqlite3.NotSupportedError: URIs not > supported", I have looked all around for posts that will point me to the > solution but have not loca

Re: Struggling newbie

2016-08-24 Thread GMail
Could you provide you settings file? I think it may be an error in settings. > On 24 Aug 2016, at 23:12, jsjazzj...@gmail.com wrote: > > I am running python3.4 with Django in virtualenv. When I execute python > manage.py runserver I continue to get "sqlite3.NotSupportedError: URIs not > suppor

Struggling newbie

2016-08-24 Thread jsjazzjeff
I am running python3.4 with Django in virtualenv. When I execute python manage.py runserver I continue to get "sqlite3.NotSupportedError: URIs not supported", I have looked all around for posts that will point me to the solution but have not located any to date. Can anyone provide me with clue

Re: GSOC-2015, Newbie, Want to contribute to Django development and also try my hand in GSOC

2015-03-13 Thread Cody Scott
You are not too late for GSOC 2015. Here is some more information with potential projects. https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/SummerOfCode2015 On Thursday, 12 March 2015 07:23:42 UTC-4, Saurabh Jain wrote: > > Hello, > My name is Saurabh Jain, currently pursuing bachelors degree in >

Re: GSOC-2015, Newbie, Want to contribute to Django development and also try my hand in GSOC

2015-03-12 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi, Welcome! If you haven't yet, check out the contributing docs. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/ I also recommend hanging around the #django-dev irc channel. Collin On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 7:23:42 AM UTC-4, Saurabh Jain wrote: > > Hello, > My nam

GSOC-2015, Newbie, Want to contribute to Django development and also try my hand in GSOC

2015-03-12 Thread Saurabh Jain
Hello, My name is Saurabh Jain, currently pursuing bachelors degree in Computer Science. I want to contribute to the development of Django. I have worked upon Django as user but have no experience related to its development. Can anyone please help me to get started with it ? I know that

Re: Newbie: import start end edit an existing django project

2013-04-26 Thread Karen Tracey
Please ask questions about using Django on django-users. The topic of this list is the development of Django itself. Thanks, Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails fro

Newbie: import start end edit an existing django project

2013-04-26 Thread Horst Jäger
Hi, I am a complete newbie to Django but not to Python and I have to edit a few lines of code in an existing Django project within the next few days. Of corse, I have to do so not in the production- but in a separate development environmet. I have: 1. a running Django server - the

Re: Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-05-23 Thread Suno Ano
Jasper> Please excuse me, I wasn't aware of that. I'll move my Jasper> questions there:) good Jasper> I know about the Django book and docs, but couldn't find Jasper> answers to what I'm looking for there. This is probably the Jasper> result of my lack of knowledge of Django terminology.

Re: Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-05-23 Thread Jasper Kennis
ns great examples. > Also, try out the tutorial at that link. > > Try asking questions 2-5 on thedjango-usersmailing list. > > Cheers, > Jon > > On Apr 12, 12:04 pm, Mister Yu wrote: > > > > > > > Hi experts, > > > i m a newbie and i m self

Re: Newbie

2010-05-05 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:16 AM, sujith h wrote: > Hi, > > I am newbie to django. And I had read the first 8 chapters of django from > the django book 2.0 > (http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter02/). I would like to do code > contribute to django. > I had gone through s

Newbie

2010-05-05 Thread sujith h
Hi, I am newbie to django. And I had read the first 8 chapters of django from the django book 2.0 (http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter02/). I would like to do code contribute to django. I had gone through some of the tickets in the django website http://code.djangoproject.com/query. I found

Re: Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-04-15 Thread jmswen
django-users mailing list. Cheers, Jon On Apr 12, 12:04 pm, Mister Yu wrote: > Hi experts, > > i m a newbie and i m self learning django and writing an web app as i > go along. i learn django by following this great screencast tutorial > from here:http://showmedo.com/videotutori

Re: Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-04-12 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Mister Yu wrote: > Hi experts, > > i m a newbie and i m self learning django and writing an web app as i > go along. i learn django by following this great screencast tutorial > from here: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PPN7NA155

Re: Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-04-12 Thread Karen Tracey
Questions about using Django should be sent to django-users, not here. The topic of this list is the development of Django itself. Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...

Django Newbie seeking for advice

2010-04-12 Thread Mister Yu
Hi experts, i m a newbie and i m self learning django and writing an web app as i go along. i learn django by following this great screencast tutorial from here: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/series?name=PPN7NA155 called Django From the Ground-up. it's a really great serious of tut

Re: Newbie Question on Forms

2008-10-12 Thread Ludvig Ericson
On Oct 12, 2008, at 06:41, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > Apologies for firing prematurely. Dude. Ludvig Ericson --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send

Re: Newbie Question on Forms

2008-10-11 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:59 PM, d. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Probably a simple, stupid error I'm making: > ... >> What can I do? >> Can somebody please help? Do you need more information? > > The Django-deve

Re: Newbie Question on Forms

2008-10-11 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:59 PM, d. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Probably a simple, stupid error I'm making: ... > What can I do? > Can somebody please help? Do you need more information? The Django-developers mailing list is for discussing the development of Django itself, not for general user

Newbie Question on Forms

2008-10-11 Thread d.
Probably a simple, stupid error I'm making: I try to display a form in a template using: {{ rForm.as_table }} The browser displays pure html of the form content, having the form- source all escaped to something like:

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-13 Thread foobarmus
The single piece of Django that I'm most hungry for right now is the bit that pushes translated strings up into your javascript. If it's feasible to use just that bit, and keep my own connection paradigm, it could be a short-term solution. Thanks again all for your time and energy on this thread

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am surely guilty of muddling the conversation from the specific case of multi-DB to the more general and more perilous case of dynamic connections. In fact I'm using the multi-db branch now for a non- critical app and it works just dandy. Also I know of someone who is working on updating that

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-11 Thread Vinay Sajip
On May 11, 6:32 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > user: Hi I'd like to be able to connect to multiple databases and/or > specify connections dynamically for my Django app. > That wasn't what the original poster said: "I'm managing a programming team that's developing a web

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think we have reached the dead horse phase of this discussion. Since it has become so lengthy and confusing for some (at least for me it has), I wanted to summarize what was accomplished. Thank you all for your responses. I feel like I have a much better sense of Django's current intended targ

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Waylan, "What you seem to be missing is that the core devs are not questioning that." Ok, I think what's happening here is that one or more of us needs to improve our communication skills - present company potentially included. If you got that impression than I did not make my thoughts clea

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread foobarmus
> well. Sure, someone mentioned the possability of some money for > development, but that doesn't cover the long term maintianence, which is > what the core devs are looking for. If someone is offering to pay for development of a feature that will enable them to use the framework for their softwa

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:58 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think what you're overlooking is that in some cases the issue of > whether its the "best solution" is irrelevant. If the database is > already in production or the policies are already set or controlled by > an external entity, th

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"While I'm not saying that multiple DB-level users and DB-level access controls are the wrong solution, I would ask up-front what specific real-world problem is being solved by this, and whether it really is the best solution." I think what you're overlooking is that in some cases the issue of

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "While I'm not saying that multiple DB-level users and DB-level access controls are the wrong solution, I would ask up-front what specific real-world problem is being solved by this, and whether it really is the best solution." At the company I'm currently working for, we have a 'sister' comp

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread foobarmus
> Furthermore, in the general case, business logic is too complex to be > implemented simply in the database layer - significant business logic > would need stored procedures, triggers etc. which are inherently non- > portable across RDBMS platforms. Portability across RDBMS platforms is a pipe d

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread Vinay Sajip
On May 10, 7:37 am, foobarmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. RDBMSs like PostgreSQL, Oracle, perhaps even MySQL although it's > still a fledgling in this regard (to name but 3), were designed to (or > have subsequently been revamped to) handle the kind of business logic > that large organisations

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread foobarmus
> Ultimately, this is a tradeoff. What happens when another app wants to > use data from the same database but has less strict auth/access > requirements? So long as you know that only one application with only > one relatively-unchanging set of requirements will ever access the > database, you'll

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-10 Thread James Bennett
On 5/10/07, foobarmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, pushing access control up the stack means I > have to rewrite all the functionality has been carefully and > comprehensively facilitated by my RDBMS. Also it means that access > control logic has to be written into every app that co

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread foobarmus
James, thanks for this argument. Perhaps I should have given some more specific info about the project. We are at approximately version 0.2 - months or perhaps a year from having a beta. Nothing is cast in stone. It's important to us to implement access control at database level for a couple of

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread James Bennett
On 5/9/07, foobarmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a tightly modelled, configurable, business administration tool. > If used in a business of significant size, I would expect and hope > that a DBA was employed to administer the database. Many of the tables > will contain information that is re

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey Russ, As always your response is sound, candid, and well thought out. You're either nimble with your typing or you put in a little block of time to compose that so thanks! Just a few quick points: 1. I see now that there is a definite intention maintain a particular profile for the framewor

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread foobarmus
Perhaps I should have given more specific info about the project. It's not a CMS, or one of these "happy apps" that just have a database because it's cool to have one. It's a tightly modelled, configurable, business administration tool. If used in a business of significant size, I would expect a

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On 5/10/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (quite a lot) :-) > Hi Brian The primary design use case for Django development is clean room development of a new web based application. This is what it was originally designed for, and there is plenty of evidence around to suggest th

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread Ian Holsman
foobarmus wrote: > I'm managing a programming team that's developing a web app in python. > I'd like to be using Django but can't at the moment because one of the > things we are doing is driving the application user into the database > connection, so that we can implement access control at databa

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The limitation of Django's single database, single connection paradigm is one that I have been recently grappling with. In a recent discussion in the users group, I went so far as to call it an "unfortunate" design decision. While I agree that the label I chose is purely a subjective value call,

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread foobarmus
Thanks for the response, Max. It's very to the point. Much appreciated. > Yes. The conventional wisdom that everyone "should know" is never to > use such web to database pass-through authentication for anything > bigger than an intranet application behind corporate firewalls/VPNs. > > There are

Re: database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-09 Thread Max Battcher
On 5/9/07, foobarmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm managing a programming team that's developing a web app in python. > I'd like to be using Django but can't at the moment because one of the > things we are doing is driving the application user into the database > connection, so that we can i

database connection user - newbie question

2007-05-08 Thread foobarmus
I'm managing a programming team that's developing a web app in python. I'd like to be using Django but can't at the moment because one of the things we are doing is driving the application user into the database connection, so that we can implement access control at database level. I would like s