Python archive – Nicolas Kuttler

Additional context for class based views through urlconf

2012-07-31

I thought there was a simpler method of adding context through the urlconf but after having a look at the source this is what I came up with. Apparently there's only getcontextdata() so I used a lambda to add what I needed. Update: I should probably have used extra_context={'model': 'Frontpage'} more

Django redirect on duplicate object creation

2012-04-04

So I had this project with a peculiar requirement: It had to do a redirect to an existing object when the CreateView failed because such an object already existed in the db. Not really hard to do but it took me a while to figure out.. so here's the code. more

Django query on model instance's class

2011-06-13

I have an abstract base class that is used by various other models. The problem is that I need the same method that runs a query on all instances of those models, and that the manager isn't accessible via model instances. This is the code I ended up using. more