This Week in Django 25

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we talk about a few source commits, a discussion about releases, Some cool projects from the community, and the Tip of the Week.

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Please see the Show Notes below for all the pertinent information and links

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Show Notes

Tracking Trunk (4:05)

• Tightened up ForeignKey and OneToOne field assignment. (7574)
  • Raise a ValueError if you try to assign the wrong type of object.
  • Raise a ValueError if you try to assign None to a field not specified with null=True.
  • Cache the set value at set time instead of just at lookup time.
  • This is a slightly backwards-incompatible change; see BackwardsIncompatibleChanges for more details.

• Allow Meta to be a newstyle class (7585) – This change allows you to use new style classes for the internal Meta class.

• Added get/set_expiry methods to session objects (7586) – you can now set expiry time on sessions objects through the set_expiry method.

• Added ‘manage.py createsuperuser’ (7590) – This has been something that a lot of people have wanted and has been supported in django-command-extensions for some time.
  • Fixed ticket #5614
  • Docs added (7593)
  • Corrected a typo in the backwards-compatibility layer for createsuperuser (7596)
  • Fixed bug with syncdb and createsuperuse (7598)

• Improved error checking when loading fixtures (7595) – this tightens up the potential for problems with fixtures.

Community Catchup (15:58)

• Interview with Jacob Kaplan-Moss – Shabda Raaj of the 42Topics Blog continues his quest to interview interesting people in the Django community. It’s an amazing interview and quite thought provoking.

• About Django and the importance of releases – Interesting post by Christian Joergensen arguing that Django needs to have releases more often. Created a bit of a stir in the community. Follow on discussion occurred in the Django-Developers group.
  • Django-Developers followup discussion

• StaticGenerator for Django Updated – Jared Kuolt adds middleware that allows StaticGenerator to run during normal project usage.

• Django India – Google Group discussion for Django developers in India.

• django-arcade – a Django pluggable app that gets a constantly updating list of flash games and swf files every day that you can include with a template tag into any project you want.
  • Django Arcade Site

• Low-level cache decorators for Django – Great post on using decorators to handle caching within models.

Tip of the Week (44:00)

Onno Timmerman sends us this tip with doing Internationalization.

I needed to give someone a django.po file. Normaly a user wants to edit it with Microsoft Word, even when you ask not to they tend to do it! Poedit is a great program that makes it easy to edit these files.

Poedit

Thank You! (45:39)

Intermediate Models – Ticket 6095 – Worked on by Eric Florenzano

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