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import os
import sys

project_dir = os.path.realpath(__file__)
sys.path.append(project_dir)
os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'main.settings'
import django
from django.conf import settings
django.setup()

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from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer
from rest_framework.response import Response
from rest_framework.views import APIView

class SimpleView(APIView):
    renderer_classes = (JSONRenderer,)
    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)

    def get(self, request):
        content = {'testing': 123}

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t = Template("The first stooge in the list is {{ stooges.0 }}.")
c = Context({"stooges": ["Larry", "Curly", "Moe"]})
t.render(c)

#or if you want to render from an existing html template

from django.template.loader import render_to_string
rendered = render_to_string('my_template.html', context)

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git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/

#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5188320/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-git-branches-ordered-by-most-recent-commit

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

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manage.py runserver --insecure
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836674/why-does-debug-false-setting-make-my-django-static-files-access-fail

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#modified version off http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576602-safe-print/

def sprint(*args, **kwargs):
    """Safely print the given string.

    If you want to see the code points for unprintable characters then you
    can use `errors="xmlcharrefreplace"`.
    """

    errors = kwargs.get('errors', 'replace')

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from django.db import connection
from django.db.backends.mysql.base import DatabaseOperations

def py_datetime_to_mysql(d):
    db_ops = DatabaseOperations(connection)
    return db_ops.value_to_db_datetime(d)

#eg:
from django.db import connection
py_datetime_to_mysql(datetime.now())

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SET foreign_key_checks = 0;
DELETE FROM users where id > 45;
SET foreign_key_checks = 1;

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CREATE DATABASE some_db DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;