I often want to see the actual SQL generated by the orm query. This is important especially if you are running some DML queries like update, select etc and want to ensure that generated sql is exactly what you had in mind. If the query results in a queryset, its really straight forward. goto ./manage.py […]
1. pip install pillow 2. modify the task app model and add ImageField to handle images 3. modify serializer for image and file field 4. create a folder in base project directory to store MEDIA data (i.e.: images, uploaded files) 5. Add MEDIA related settings (MEDIA_ROOT & MEDIA_URL) ins settings.py file. 6. Modify url.py in […]
Both Django and Flask rely on SECRET_KEY to generate things like session IDs, cookies etc. Here is a safe way to generate them. Note that this relies on the secrets module introduced in Python 3.6 and onwards. From the Python docs: The secrets module is used for generating cryptographically strong random numbers suitable for managing […]
What are Permissions In Django Permissions can apply to Individual Users Groups of Users Permissions are all about Access – Who can see what? Control – Who can do what In django docs, Permissions are defined like so: Permissions [are] binary (yes/no) flags designating whether a user may perform a certain task So, the above […]
Celery is a task queue with focus on real-time processing, while also supporting task scheduling. RabbitMQ is a message broker. This means it handles the queue of “messages” between Django and Celery. Redis is a key-value based storage (REmote DIstributed Storage). Very fast. Used for results backend. Code for this tutorial is here: https://github.com/tek-shinobi/celeryDj Install […]
Unit Tests Setup 1. Create virtual env. pipenv shell 2. Install django pipenv install django 3. Create django project. django-admin startproject tested 4. Create .gitignore file touch .gitignore settings setup a settings file for tests. This will use an in-memory sqlite DB (sqlite3). This is good because we don’t want a PG or MySQL db […]
Descriptors are often overlooked part of Python. We are all aware of @property. Descriptors are what power it. So lets take a look at them. Why Descriptors Look at this code: class Person: def __init__(self, name): self._name = name @property def name(self): return self._name.capitalize() @name.setter def name(self, value): self._name = value @name.deleter def name(self): del […]
This is a general post about what mixins are. Mixins are a design pattern found in many languages. In Python, though the language does not support mixins natively,they are implemented using Python’s multiple inheritence model. The mixins are different from inheritence. Inheritence is useful when you want to narrow a scope in the inherited class. […]
This article is inspired by article here. What is Pytest Pytest is testing framework for Python. Very popular with Django. Killer feature : Fixtures Fixtures are the killer feature of Pytest. Fixtures are functions that run before and after each test, like setUp and tearDown in unitest and labelled pytest killer feature. Fixtures are used […]
See part 1 here. In this part we are discussing what to do when we add custom user model later in the project. Note that in this scenario, we are in a very non-ideal situation. To keep unknown surprises at the minimum, we will still delete old database but we will use the concept of […]