The problem is not in Django settings, but in the date passed to the model. Here’s how a timezone-aware object looks like: >>> from django.utils import timezone >>> import pytz >>> timezone.now() datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 20, 20, 8, 7, 127325, tzinfo=pytz.UTC) And here’s a naive object: >>> from datetime import datetime >>> datetime.now() datetime.datetime(2013, 11, 20, … Read more
There is Q objects that allow to complex lookups. Example: from django.db.models import Q Item.objects.filter(Q(creator=owner) | Q(moderated=False))
Differences between OneToOneField(SomeModel) and ForeignKey(SomeModel, unique=True) as stated in The Definitive Guide to Django: OneToOneField A one-to-one relationship. Conceptually, this is similar to a ForeignKey with unique=True, but the “reverse” side of the relation will directly return a single object. In contrast to the OneToOneField “reverse” relation, a ForeignKey “reverse” relation returns a QuerySet. Example … Read more
Suppose you want to ask the user for his first/last name during signup. You’ll need to put these fields in your own form, like so: class SignupForm(forms.Form): first_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, label=”Voornaam”) last_name = forms.CharField(max_length=30, label=”Achternaam”) def signup(self, request, user): user.first_name = self.cleaned_data[‘first_name’] user.last_name = self.cleaned_data[‘last_name’] user.save() Then, in your settings point to this form: ACCOUNT_SIGNUP_FORM_CLASS … Read more
Found out what was wrong. I never installed the setuptools for python, so it was missing some vital files, like the egg ones. If you find yourself having my issue above, download this file and then in powershell or command prompt, navigate to ez_setup’s directory and execute the command and this will run the file … Read more
Note: Disabling CSRF is unsafe from security point of view. Please use your judgement to use the below method. Why this error is happening? This is happening because of the default SessionAuthentication scheme used by DRF. DRF’s SessionAuthentication uses Django’s session framework for authentication which requires CSRF to be checked. When you don’t define any … Read more
You have a few options: Put different URLs in the action for the two forms. Then you’ll have two different view functions to deal with the two different forms. Read the submit button values from the POST data. You can tell which submit button was clicked: How can I build multiple submit buttons django form?
Essentially, you want to override the __init__ method of models.Model so that you keep a copy of the original value. This makes it so that you don’t have to do another DB lookup (which is always a good thing). class Person(models.Model): name = models.CharField() __original_name = None def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.__original_name = … Read more
When a URL is like domain/search/?q=haha, you would use request.GET.get(‘q’, ”). q is the parameter you want, and ” is the default value if q isn’t found. However, if you are instead just configuring your URLconf**, then your captures from the regex are passed to the function as arguments (or named arguments). Such as: (r’^user/(?P<username>\w{0,50})/$’, … Read more
If you still need to server static locally (e.g. for testing without debug) you can run devserver in insecure mode: manage.py runserver –insecure