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Using django-import-export python module.

The tutorial today will show you how to use the python module named django-import-export for importing and exporting files. If the Django project is done on a virtual environment, you will need to activate it. Install the python module using the pip utility:

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cd Scripts
pip.exe install django-import-export
Successfully installed backports.csv-1.0.7 diff-match-patch-20181111 django-import-export-1.2.0
odfpy-1.4.0 tablib-0.13.0 xlrd-1.2.0 xlwt-1.3.0

You must add the following to the file settings.py the INSTALLED_APPS… Read More »

How to reset django or create another superuser.

If you know your username (for example admin) then use this:

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manage.py changepassword admin

Also, You may try through the console to see and change the password: Use the shell console and start the Django shell:

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python manage.py shell

Now use this Django script:

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from django.contrib.auth.models import User
User.objects.filter(is_superuser=True)
u = User.objects.get(username='your username')
u.set_password('raw password')
u.save()

If you need to create another superuser.

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13:56 ~/mysite $ python manage.py createsuperuser
Username: testsuper
E-mail address: testsuper@mail.com
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.

XSS sanitization on django – variables and templates

XSS attacks allow a user to inject client-side scripts into the browsers of other users. Using Django templates protects you against the majority of XSS attacks. To do this you need to protect your templates this code:

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{% autoescape off%}
{{your_form}}
{%end autoescape%}

If you need to disable auto-escaping for an individual variable, then use the safe filter:

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{{ your_variable|safe }}

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Python 3.2 and Django 1.4 – installation.

Although most of us prefer the python version 2.6, today I tried to install the latest version of Django and Python 2.3.2. Make a new folder, named test-dj.

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$mkdir test-dj
$cd test-dj/

On the official site, I got the two archives:

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django-django-1.4-919-ge57338f.zip
Python-3.2.3.tar.bz2

I will start with the installation of python. We unzip the archive:

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$tar xvjf Python-3.2.3.tar.bz2

We execute the… Read More »