Author Archives: Yuji Tomita

I just followed the source back from django’s ClearableFileInput all the way to django’s model field magic… all the way to a little thing called FieldFile.

FieldFile can be faked with these minimum attributes:

from django.core.files.storage import default_storage

class FakeField(object):
    storage = default_storage

fieldfile = FieldFile(None, FakeField, file_path)

form = SomeForm(initial={'filefield': fieldfile })

WHEW!

Wow this debugging lead me nowhere.

invalid byte sequence for encoding “UTF8”:
HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by “client_encoding”.

If you’re getting a DatabaseError, double check that you are not trying to store pickled data through the ORM. The python docs are wrong about pickle protocol 0 being ASCII only and pickle.dumps(u’©∆∂ƒ©˙∆˚’) will output non ASCII.

bug tracked here: http://bugs.python.org/issue2980

Causing a tough to track error at the DB level which does not consistently appear until a “bad” string is passed in.

Turns out Ubuntu is missing pythons standard library component profile.py due to licensing issues related to debian.

I don’t really care about that.

What I care about is the solution.

Enable the multiverse repository in your ubuntu.

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy and paste one of the lines (they are version specific) and replace the ending text with “multiverse”. It doesn’t really do any damage to keep other repo names on there.

## Added mutliverse for python-profiler
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid multiverse

Update repo list and install python-profiler.

apt-get update
apt-get install python-profiler

Done.

Graham, you seem to find every post written about mod_wsgi within *minutes*.

What’s your secret?

Goes google alerts work that fast?

If you have this error… make sure you have the LocaleMiddleware installed in your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES.

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    # other middleware ...
    'django.middleware.locale.LocaleMiddleware',
)

First, set up the locate command. (it will give you instructions).

Wait while the database gets finished (just walk away for 10 mins)

Now type in a terminal:

$> cp $(locate .icns) /path/to/output/folder/
$> open /path/to/output/folder

There are all 858 icons!

If you can’t get to gmail due to HTTPS errors, make sure your systems date/time is correct, as the certificates are validated against your system time.

Here’s a way to get all unsubscribed in your account ever;

I’m having trouble with the fact it starts blocking me after a few “bad requests” trying to remove a contact that’s not in the list, but oh well. This is progress.

def get_all_unsubscribed():
	import mailjet

	api = mailjet.Api()
	list_ids = [x['id'] for x in api.lists.all()['lists']]

	unsubscribed = []

	for list_id in list_ids:
		total_accounted_for = 0
		total_count = api.lists.Contacts(id=list_id, status='unsub')['total_cnt']
		while total_accounted_for < total_count:
			if total_accounted_for:
				result = api.lists.Contacts(id=list_id, status='unsub', start=total_accounted_for)
			else:
				result = api.lists.Contacts(id=list_id, status='unsub')
			print 'found ... results ', len(result['result'])
			if not result['result']:
				print 'found end... @ ', total_accounted_for, total_count
				break
			for u in result['result']:
				unsubscribed.append(u)
			total_accounted_for += len(result['result'])

	return unsubscribed

I couldn’t figure out gunicorns setup syntax easily through google searches.

it’s DOTTED.PYTHON.PATH.TO.MODULE:APP_NAME

web: gunicorn my_folder.my_module:app -b 0.0.0.0$PORT -w 3