With Changeset 8136 Django gains the ability to specify intermediate models in a declarative way. This makes it possible to have extra attributes on your many-to-many join table. Check out the docs for more information.
I’ve been watching this one for almost a very long time and I’m glad to see it get in. Special thanks go to Eric Florenzano and Russell Keith-Magee
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This week Eric Florenzano fills in while Michael is out. We talk to James Tauber about who he is and what Pinax is. A few trunk changes and some community bits.
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We’re back! Apologizes for last week’s cancellation. Michael’s wife gave birth to their 2nd child, Lucas Matthew Trier. Welcome to the world, Lucas!
(7565)(7561)(7555)This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
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(7494) – This has use with update statements. Problem remained in MySQL with a test in 7495 and a fix for nested updates in 7496.(7499) – Pickle Query when you only want to recreate the necessary information to recreate the QuerySet, otherwise pickle the QuerySet.(7507) – This includes the ability to track changes on a newform. Model formsets now only return the changed/new objects saved. A big thanks to Karen Tracey and Alex Gaynor.Francis Cleary is on the show with us this week to present his tip that he entered in the Win Cool Stuff Contest and was our grand prize winner.
Multiple view prefixes
Rather then have complex and long urls like so
urlpatterns += patterns('',
(r'^$', 'mySite.Project.views.mainpage' ),
(r'^custom/view/$', 'mySite.Project.views.'view_function'),
(r'^lookup/tag/(?P<tag>\w+)/$', 'mySite.Project.views.tag_list'),
(r'^users/$' , 'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', user_dict),
(r'^recent/$','django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', all_dict),
(r^text/$', 'django.views.generic.date_based.object_detail', object_dict),
)
Take advantage of the first argument to the patterns() function to specify a prefix to apply to each view function. just make sure you have the += not just =.
urlpatterns += patterns('mySite.Project.views',
(r'^$', 'mainpage'),
(r'^custom/view/$', 'view_function'),
(r'^lookup/tag/(?P<tag>\w+)/$', 'tag_list'),
)
urlpatterns += patterns('django.views.generic',
(r'^users/$' , 'list_detail.object_list', user_dict),
(r'^recent/$', 'list_detail.object_list', all_dict),
(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'date_based.archive_year', object_dict),
)
Advanced Generic Views
If you don’t want your urls.py filling up with dictionary or would like to do more complicated filtering or extra work to a list. Define view functions that return your generic view and dictionary.
In this example from the Django Book. We will use a generic view to display an author but we want to update the last_accessed data.
urls.py
from mysite.books.views import author_detail
urlpatterns = patterns('',
#...
(r'^authors/(?P<author_id>d+)/$', author_detail),
)
views.py
import datetime
from mysite.books.models import Author
from django.views.generic import list_detail
from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
def author_detail(request, author_id):
# Look up the Author (and raise a 404 if she's not found)
author = get_object_or_404(Author, pk=author_id)
# Record the last accessed date
author.last_accessed = datetime.datetime.now()
author.save()
# Show the detail page
return list_detail.object_detail(
request,
queryset = Author.objects.all(),
object_id = author_id,
)
Rather then calling the generic view from the urls.py you can once again see how uncoupled things are in django and just return the generic view from your own wrapped view.
Backwards Incompatible Changes Information
>>> from cameras.models import CameraImage
>>> CameraImage.objects.all().count()
248788L
>>> from django.core.paginator import Paginator
>>> paginator = Paginator( CameraImage.objects.all(), 48, True)
>>> import time;start=time.time(); page = paginator.page(50); print time.time()-start
17.4773068428
We get lots of questions about IRC in general, so maybe a few little tidbits here and there:
Why don’t you use manners? When I say Thank You, you don’t respond.
Okay here’s the deal, there’s no reason to increase the noise level on IRC. That means although we appreciate the thanks, often we will not acknowledge it. So don’t take it personally.
I asked a question and no one responded. Why is that?
People will answer if they know. You can re-ask but please wait a bit. Don’t use the #django-dev channel, that’s the wrong thing to do.
It might be good to think about how you can rephrase the question.
Use the Django-Users Mailing list. It’s another avenue available.
Can anyone help with a NewForms-Admin Question?
Don’t ask to ask. Just ask straight away. It depends often on the area of the question. So it’s best to just ask your question.
Will “blank” work?
Try it. Often the best thing to do is try it. That’s what anyone will end up doing.
Couple other tips, read the FAQ, Backwards Incompatible Changes, and the Freenode FAQ.
