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Multiple Form Fields with the Same Name / Form Field Value as a List in Django

Posted by: scoopseven in Django Python 13 years, 1 month ago

I encountered a scenario where I have a list that I needed to pass over in a form, something like:

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Sort Python Dictionaries by Key or Value

Posted by: scoopseven in Django Python 13 years, 2 months ago

Dictionaries have no __order__ so when you're need to sort one, you're out of luck, right? Not so! Found this goodness with instructions on sorting/ordering Python dictionaries by key or value. I needed to sort a dictionary of regions alphabetically to populate a ChoiceField/select/dropdown box.

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Django ChoiceField Empty Option for Select/Dropdown

Posted by: scoopseven in Django Python 13 years, 2 months ago

If you're looking to add a empty_label to your ChoiceField, like you can for ModelChoiceField (empty_label="All"), you're going to have to override __init__ on your form. This solution I found on StackOverflow works well.

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Comparing Python Date and Datetime / Django

Posted by: scoopseven in Django Python 13 years, 2 months ago

I'm always doing this, so some of you must be too. I'll compare a date field in with a datetime object in Python/DJango like this:

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Installing MySQLdb for Python / Django

Posted by: scoopseven in Django MySQL Python 14 years, 5 months ago

Problems installing MySQLdb? Me too! I'm installing using MySQL 5 / Django 1.1 / Python 2.4 on CentOS 5.4 linux.

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