Adventures in software
February 28, 2010
You can convert any Django CharField into a droplist by specifying options in the model structure. For example:
class ContestEvent(models.Model): date_of_event = models.DateField() DATE_RESOLUTION_CHOICES = ( ('D', 'Exact Day'), ('M', 'Month'), ('Y', 'Year'), …
February 28, 2010
Regular expressions are a powerful way of finding things in strings.
To match a regular expression anywhere in a string, use search:
lRegEx = "\d{4}" lMatches = re.search(lRegEx, lContestName) if lMatches: raise forms.ValidationError("Contest name cannot contain a year" …
I'm Tim Sawyer. I'm a software architect. I usually end up writing software in my spare time too, though I can also be found playing percussion and taking photos.
