Questions tagged [django]
Django is an open-source server-side web application framework written in Python. It is designed to reduce the effort required to create complex data-driven websites and web applications, focusing on less code, no redundancy and being more explicit than implicit.
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What is the difference between null=True and blank=True in Django?
When we add a model field in Django we generally write:
models.CharField(max_length=100, null=True, blank=True)
The same is done with ForeignKey, DecimalField etc. What is the basic difference ...
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Has Django served an excess of 100k daily visits? [closed]
I'm building a web application with Django. The reasons I chose Django were:
I wanted to work with free/open-source tools.
I like Python and feel it's a long-term language, whereas regarding Ruby I ...
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Is there a list of Pytz Timezones?
I would like to know what are all the possible values for the timezone argument in the Python library pytz. How to do it?
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How do I do a not equal in Django queryset filtering?
In Django model QuerySets, I see that there is a __gt and __lt for comparative values, but is there a __ne or != (not equals)? I want to filter out using a not equals. For example, for
Model:
bool ...
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How can I temporarily disable a foreign key constraint in MySQL?
Is it possible to temporarily disable constraints in MySQL?
I have two Django models, each with a foreign key to the other one. Deleting instances of a model returns an error because of the foreign ...
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How to combine multiple QuerySets in Django?
I'm trying to build the search for a Django site I am building, and in that search, I am searching across three different models. And to get pagination on the search result list, I would like to use a ...
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How to revert the last migration?
I've made a migration that added a new table and want to revert it and delete the migration, without creating a new migration.
How do I do it? Is there a command to revert last migration and then I ...
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Where does pip install its packages?
I activated a virtualenv which has pip installed. I did
pip3 install Django==1.8
and Django successfully downloaded. Now, I want to open up the Django folder. Where is the folder located?
Normally it ...
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What is a "slug" in Django?
When I read Django code I often see in models what is called a "slug". I am not quite sure what this is, but I do know it has something to do with URLs. How and when is this slug-thing ...
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How to upload a file in Django? [closed]
What is the minimal example code needed for a "hello world" app using Django 1.3, that enables the user to upload a file?
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What does on_delete do on Django models?
I'm quite familiar with Django, but I recently noticed there exists an on_delete=models.CASCADE option with the models. I have searched for the documentation for the same, but I couldn't find anything ...
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How to check Django version
I have to use Python and Django for our application. So, I have two versions of Python, 2.6 and 2.7. Now I have installed Django. I could run the sample application for testing Django successfully. ...
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What is related_name used for?
What is the related_name argument useful for on ManyToManyField and ForeignKey fields? For example, given the following code, what is the effect of related_name='maps'?
class Map(db.Model):
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How can I upgrade specific packages using pip and a requirements file?
I'm using pip with a requirements file, in a virtualenv, for my Django projects. I'm trying to upgrade some packages, notably Django itself, and I'm getting an error about source code conflicts:
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How to debug in Django, the good way? [closed]
So, I started learning to code in Python and later Django. The first times it was hard looking at tracebacks and actually figure out what I did wrong and where the syntax error was. Some time has ...
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