django-etc

https://github.com/idlesign/django-etc

Description

Tiny stuff for Django that won't fit into separate apps.

Utils

• etc.toolbox.get_site_url does its best to provide you with a site URL whether request object is available or not.
• etc.toolbox.import_app_module imports and returns a module from a specific app by its name.
• etc.toolbox.import_project_modules imports modules from registered apps using given module name and returns them as a list.

Models

• etc.toolbox.InheritedModel allows to override fields attributes in inherited models.
• etc.toolbox.get_model_class_from_string allows getting model class from its string representation.
• etc.toolbox.get_model_class_from_settings allows getting model class from its string representation in settings module.
• etc.toolbox.ChoicesEnumMixin helps to define choices for models using Enum from Python 3.
• etc.toolbox.choices_list helps to define choices for models, that could be addressed later as dictionaries.
• etc.toolbox.get_choices returns model field choices from a given choices list.

Admin

• etc.admin.CustomModelPage allows easy construction of custom admin pages processing user input.

Forms

• etc.toolbox.set_form_widgets_attrs allows bulk apply HTML attributes to every field widget of a given form.

Template tags

• model_field:
  • model_field_verbose_name returns model field verbose name.
  • model_field_help_text returns model field help text.
• model_meta:
  • model_meta_verbose_name returns model verbose name singular.
  • model_meta_verbose_name_plural returns model verbose name plural.
• gravatar
  • gravatar_get_url returns Gravatar image URL for a given string or UserModel.
  • gravatar_get_img returns Gravatar image HTML tag for a given string or UserModel.
• etc_misc
  • site_url does its best to provide you with a site URL whether request object is available or not.
  • include_ allows a template name to include template variables. Allows fallback template if the target is not found.

Documentation

http://django-etc.readthedocs.org/