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Comment on Updates March 2010 Edition by David

David — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:05:47 +0000

@shermann Launchpad seems like it will work and I don't see any reason why I can't learn Bazaar. At first I thought that a wiki might be useful, but I sort of like the idea of keeping that information in the docs/ directory of the source code. This way I can enforce that updates to the codeline come with corresponding updates to the documentation. The way the Django project handles this is truly admirable.

Comment on Updates March 2010 Edition by shermann

shermann — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:34:43 +0000

Hi David,

first, thx for your work on this project…after I found it on the interwebs, I’m now using it for some important code in our company.
second, why not use launchpad? sourcecode housing via bzr, bugtracker, team management etc.
and it fits in the pythonic environment of Ubuntu/Launchpad and Django and it gives you a mailinglist (or more) for free, too.
third, it’s a good idea to push this project to a wider audience and to let people actively contribute to your project

Keep up the good work,

Stephan aka \sh

Comment on Django Scripting and the Crontab by David

David — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:13:51 +0000

If you override the __init__ method of BaseCommand, you must still call the BaseCommand constructor. When Django attempts to output an error (raised by CommandError) to the screen, it attempts to style it. Errors will be printed in bold red text or something similar based on your terminal settings. If you see an error like this: AttributeError: 'Command' object has no attribute 'style' You need the following in your Command constructor:

class Command(BaseCommand):
    def __init__(self):
        # Call the BaseCommand constructor
        super(Command, self).__init__()

        # ...

    def handle(self, *app_labels, **options):
        pass

Comment on Using Django for Intranet Applications by David

David — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:00:58 +0000

@Steven Elliott About what functionality are you concerned? At work, we use Django for moderate traffic (~500 total intranet users), somewhat intensive applications without many problems. In general, I choose Django for nearly every web based project where that decision is left up to me. The applications you described seem pretty straight forward and Django should be able to handle them unless you are doing something crazy. However, there are cases where Python may not be the best language choice to get the job done or Django may not be the best fit and in those cases you have to consider other options. We have an upcoming code analysis project that will rely heavily on MSSql Server (and other databases) and I have some reservations. Although pyodbc is pretty solid for database access from Linux to MSSql, django-pyodbc has raised some concerns due to lack of support. We are considering using Python with SQLAlchemy/Elixir (with and without Django) as well as Java. This application will have a database with billions of records and will do code analysis on tens of millions of files. However, my concerns aren't with Django's ability to handle that data but rather with support for the database packages we'll be using.

Comment on Using Django for Intranet Applications by Steven Elliott

Steven Elliott — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:35:00 +0000

Interesting post. Sorry I’m a bit late in responding but I’ve just recently started looking at django as an alternative for some intranet-type applications. Part of my requirements include: paid time off tracking, micro-blogging, policy and memo delivery, organization news, inventory management, bug tracking/feature request software.

I initially looked at Rails for this but I find Ruby very obtuse and Rails to be very confusing (for me). Do you feel that Django can handle “enterprisey” applications. Most of everything youbsee out there is a news site or social networking site. You don’t see a lot of django apps that do a lot of processing and what not.