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# A simple way to break out Apps within the Django settings.py
# file in a logical way. Third party and Local Apps will vary 
# based on the project.

DEFAULT_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.messages',

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from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext


def handler404(request):
    response = render_to_response('404.html', {},
                                  context_instance=RequestContext(request))
    response.status_code = 404
    return response

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import six

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import REDIRECT_FIELD_NAME
from django.contrib.auth.views import redirect_to_login
from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured, PermissionDenied
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.utils.encoding import force_text

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class PluginMount(type):
	"""
	A Meta Class plugin mount location for a list of plugin classes.
	By creating this, on all subclasses of PluginMount, python will
	instantiate a plugin attribute list and maintain it for the Class 
	using this Meta Class.
	"""
	def __init__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
		if not hasattr(cls, 'plugins'):
			cls.plugins = []

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from django.db import models
from django.core.exceptions import ValidationError


def validate_length(value):
    if len(value) != 5:
        raise ValidationError('%s is not five digits.' % value)
        

class MyModel(models.Model):

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I currently use Postgres and a Mac for my Django Dev environment.  However, when I first started I was using a Windows machine with MySQL.  When I looked through my notes just now, it was pretty easy to set up.  (I didn't use xampp however).  What I installed was:

1. MySQL workbench: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

2. MySQL-python connector - I used pip install for this. So if you have "pip" then it's just: 
  pip install mysql-python
  
3. And, this is what my database settings looked like in my settings.py:

DATABASES = {

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# ---------------------------- None View Helper Functions ------------------------------------

# Place to save image upload file
def handle_uploaded_file(f):
    with open(content_file_name(f), 'wb+') as destination:
        for chunk in f.chunks():
            destination.write(chunk)

# Attempt Imagefield
def content_file_name(instance, filename):

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import requests
import xmltodict

def get_weather(url="http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=12795483&u=f"):
    """
    Get the current weather for Las Vegas using Yahoo!'s Weather API
    """
    try:
        r = requests.get(url)
        # parse bytes into a text string

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#pip
pip install redis
pip install celery[redis]
pip install django-celery

# redis server
# download here 
http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
# follow install instructions here
http://redis.io/topics/quickstart

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'''
To convert zipcodes
-------------------
From the output on: http://www.freemaptools.com/find-zip-codes-inside-radius.htm 
to a list of strings to use as a filter in SQL.

Change data initially in this format:
1111,2222,3333

To this format: