Author: John Au-Yeung

Sometimes, we want to use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates with Python Django.

In this article, we’ll look at how to use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates with Python Django.

How to use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates with Python Django?

To use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates with Python Django, we can create our own view that returns the response returned by the password_reset function.

For instance, we write

from django.contrib.auth.views import password_reset

def my_password_reset(request, template_name='path/to/my/template'):
    return password_reset(request, template_name)

to create the my_password_reset view function.

In it, we call password_reset(request, template_name) to return the response that renders the password reset form template.

Conclusion

To use the built in password reset/change views with my own templates with Python Django, we can create our own view that returns the response returned by the password_reset function.

Sometimes, we want to display choice value with Python Django.

In this article, we’ll look at how to display choice value with Python Django.

How to Display Choice Value with Python Django?

To display choice value with Python Django, we call the get_FOO_display() method in our template.

For instance, we write

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    CATEGORY_CHOICES = (
        ('M', 'Male'),
        ('F', 'Female'),
    )
    gender = models.CharField(max_length=200, choices=CATEGORY_CHOICES)
    to_be_listed = models.BooleanField(default=True)
    description = models.CharField(max_length=20000, blank=True)

to create the Person model with the gender field.

Then in our template, we add

{{ person.get_gender_display }}

to return the results of the get_gender_display method where person is a Person instance.

Conclusion

To display choice value with Python Django, we call the get_FOO_display() method in our template.

Sometimes, we want to access the local Python Django webserver from outside world.

In this article, we’ll look at how to access the local Python Django webserver from outside world.

How to access the local Python Django webserver from outside world?

To access the local Python Django webserver from outside world, we can run runserver with 0.0.0.0.

To do this, we run

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

to start the local web server with runserver and 0.0.0.0:8000 to listen on every interface on port 8000.

Conclusion

To access the local Python Django webserver from outside world, we can run runserver with 0.0.0.0.

Sometimes, we want to fix CSRF token missing or incorrect with Python Django.

In this article, we’ll look at how to fix CSRF token missing or incorrect with Python Django.

How to fix CSRF token missing or incorrect with Python Django?

To fix CSRF token missing or incorrect with Python Django, we can pass the request context into the form when calling render_to_response.

For instance, in our view, we write

from django.template import RequestContext

# ...

return render_to_response('fileupload/upload.html', {'form': c['UploadFileForm']},  RequestContext(request))

to call render_to_response with RequestContext(request) to pass the CSRF token into the fileupload/upload.html template.

Then in our template, we use

{% csrf_token %}

to add the CSRF token field.

Conclusion

To fix CSRF token missing or incorrect with Python Django, we can pass the request context into the form when calling render_to_response.

Sometimes, we want to modify the request object with Python Django.

In this article, we’ll look at how to modify the request object with Python Django.

How to modify the request object with Python Django?

To modify the request object with Python Django, we can use the copy method to make it mutable.

For instance, we write

request.GET = request.GET.copy()

to make a copy of request.GET with request.GET.copy() to return a mutable copy of the dict.

And then we assign the copied dict back to request.GET.

Conclusion

To modify the request object with Python Django, we can use the copy method to make it mutable.