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Core no more November 20, 2018 Django, Python If you’re not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django’s development, you might not know there’s a draft proposal to drastically change the project’s governance. It’s been getting discussion on GitHub and mailing lists, but I want to take some time today to walk through and explain what this proposal does and what problems it’s tr

Let’s talk about usernames February 11, 2018 Django, Pedantics, Programming, Python, Security, Unicode A few weeks ago I released django-registration 2.4.1. The 2.4 series is the last in the django-registration 2.x line, and from here on out it’ll only get bugfixes. The master branch is now prepping for 3.0, which will remove a lot of the deprecated cruft that’s accumulated over the past decade of

How Python does Unicode September 5, 2017 Pedantics, Programming, Python, Unicode As we all (hopefully) know by now, Python 3 made a significant change to how strings work in the language. I’m on the record as being strongly in favor of this change, and I’ve written at length about why I think it was the right thing to do. But for those who’ve been living under a rock the past ten years or so, her

Managers versus class methods February 25, 2008 Django, Python In the triumphant return of “James answers questions from the django-users list”, today I’d like to take a few moments to talk something that’s recently become something of a hot topic, spawning not one but two threads, as well as a couple off-list email discussions: what, exactly, is appropriate to put into a method on a custom manage

Let’s talk about WSGI August 10, 2009 Django, Frameworks, Python Recently Armin Ronacher (whose blog you should be reading if you do anything at all involving Python and the web) has published a couple of good articles poking at the current state of WSGI, the standard interface for Python web applications. Some of his comments dovetail nicely into concerns I’ve been trying to put into words for a

Django 2.0 January 18, 2009 Django, Misc So apparently some folks doing business as “Vyper Logix Corp” are peddling a thing they call “Django 2.0”. I’m not going to link it here since they don’t deserve the Google bump, but if you’re interested you can follow the link in Jannis’ tweet where he mentioned it. In fact, with any luck my Google juice will pop this article up above them. “Django 2.0” is

Standalone Django scripts September 22, 2007 Django In the grand tradition of providing answers to frequently-asked questions from the django-users mailing list and the #django IRC channel, I’d like to tackle something that’s fast becoming the most frequently-asked question: how do you write standalone scripts which make use of Django components? At first glance, this isn’t a terribly hard thing t

Moving into production November 8, 2007 Django At some point, every Django-based project (hopefully) moves out of the development phase and into production deployment, and this can be a traumatic experience. As a result, there are a few things you’ll nearly always want to do during this process in order to transition smoothly and ensure you go to production with all your code humming along; this t

Django tips: Template context processors June 14, 2006 Django Last time around we looked at how to write an effective template tag, with the focus on writing a flexible template tag that would make it easy to pull in various types of recent content in any page; I use a tag similar to the one in that entry to pull out the recent entries, links and comments in the footer of every page on this site.

Django tips: get the most out of generic views November 16, 2006 Django Recently at work I had the chance to revisit an application I’d written fairly early on in my tenure at World Online; I was still getting used to doing real Django development and to some of the quirks of our development environment, and ended up writing a lot more code than I needed to, so I was happy to be able to take a cou

Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 1 July 31, 2006 Django, JavaScript, Programming One thing that’s come up over and over again in the Django IRC channel and on the mailing lists is the need for good examples of “how to do AJAX with Django”. Now, one of my goals in life at the moment is to try to fill in the gaps in Django’s documentation, so… Over the next couple of entries we’re going to w

Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 2 August 5, 2006 Django, JavaScript, Programming Last time around we looked at how to write a simple view which processes a form and either returns errors or returns success, and then tweaked it slightly so that the same view could handle either a “regular” form submission (in which case it operates normally), or an XMLHttpRequest (in which case it returns

Django tips: user registration September 2, 2006 Django One of the most common and, generally, most successful models for letting people sign up for user accounts requires the user to go through some form of “activation”; usually it looks something like this: User fills out a form with a username, password and email address. User gets an email with a “confirmation link” which must be clicked to ac

July 2, 2006 Django, JavaScript One hot topic that keeps coming up over and over again on the Django mailing lists and in IRC has to do with when Django will get “AJAX support”. There are two answers to that question; one can be stated with authority, and the other consists entirely of my own unofficial and non-binding opinion. Let’s start with the first: We’ve already got it, and more is on the w

Django tips: extending the User model June 6, 2006 Django, Frameworks One of Django‘s great strengths is its built-in user and authentication system; the bundled application django.contrib.auth includes models for users, user groups and permissions and views for logging users in and out and changing and resetting their passwords. This is enough to cover the needs of a huge number of sites and, aft