Deploying a Django 5 Application using PythonAnywhere I recently developed a simple ticket tracking system in Django for my own use to better manage requests from my team at the office. It consists of two main models User and Ticket with a TicketHistory coming one of these days. The simplicity of my models led me…
While trying to add a simple “Attachments” feature to one of my applications I ran across an issue where a record with file could be added from the Django Admin, but would fail with a validation error when used in my forms. The error came down to my missing something from views.py in the form…
In a system I’m developing that handles scheduling, I had a need to add some additional data to a report group header. I tried a few different approaches but nothing worked until I created a custom method on the model I was reporting on. This worked and got the needed data on the report, but…
Just a quick little tip. It took me quite a bit to time to stumble across this, as the Django documentation does not mention it. If you have a ‘related_name’ set for a ForeignKey field on a model, USE that related_name as the MODELCHILD_SET name when trying to access related objects. Working Example Based on…
I finally finished Michael Kennedy‘s awesome introduction to python programming course “Python Jumpstart by Building 10 Apps“. As a listener of both Talk Python To Me and PythonBytes podcasts, I’ve come to respect and appreciate Michael’s depth of knowledge and easy going approach to Python. I started this course about three or four months ago…