SEtting Up Django with Apache and Multilpe Versions of Python

5 minute read Like about a decade ago, I’m again setting up a local installation of Django. This time though I’m wanting to use virtual environments, and ideally different versions of Python, so I can have work on multiple versions of a Django website, each with different versions of Django and ideally Python. Also, this time I’m on […]

Delete Files When Deleting Models in Django

2 minute read In Django, when you delete a model instance from the database the files uploaded to those instances are not deleted automatically. This can lead to having lots of “orphaned” files: they’re not referenced by the database, but they’re still taking up space on the server. In this post, I’ll share how to change that so […]

Filing CRA 🇨🇦 T2202 XML Information Returns Electronically

16 minute read How I generated XML files to meet the Canadian Revenue Agency’s XSD files’ requirements using Python 2 and generateDS

11 New-to-me Tools Used Redesigning a Django Website

6 minute read I recently participated in redesigning a Django website, and got introduced to a lot of new tools. I thought I should share what tools and process Scott Mahr, my wife Amanda, and myself used redesigning the website of Pacific Rim Early Childhood Institute. Maybe it will help others undertaking a redesign, or introduce you to […]

Making a Django Custom Model Field, Form Field, and Widget

2 minute read For a recent Django task, I wanted to create a custom field that used a new widget by default to display the input differently. The basic steps to do this are: Create a custom Widget (child class of django.contrib.admin.widgets.Input) Create a custom Form Field (child class of django.forms.Field) that uses your custom widget Create a […]

Adding Support for Foreign Characters to Django

5 minute read This post explains the changes I needed to make to a Python Django 1.8 website in order to add Unicode (special character) support. The Situation I’ve been helping run a Django 1.8 website, and we’ve been getting tired of errors everytime a user uses accents, foreign language characters, or curly quotes. Errors like DjangoUnicodeDecodeError at […]

simple db and django

2 minute read I’m working on Project3 from my cs 462 class, where basically we need to make an ‘appserver’ which returns json stuff.Rather than making my machine listen on port 8010 for the appserver and seperately on 80 for the regular webserver, I just got apache to listen on port 8010, and reused all my code from […]

forwarding a post in python

< 1 minute read Wanted to run some data validation on a post request, then forward that request onto a different url. Used urllib2, although it wasn’t exactly intuitive. In my python code, I receive an django.http Request object. To forward the request on, I did: |newReq=urllib2.Request(‘urlToFrwardTo’,urllib.urlencode(req.POST)) and then |urllib2.urlopen(newReq) The part that weirded me out was the why […]