Julynx

Basic Tips - Intermediate Tips - Advanced Tips

jefftriplett

# https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/chat-vs-completions
#
# python -m pip install openai
#
import openai


completion = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[

mihow

if [ ! -f .env ]
then
  export $(cat .env | xargs)
fi

gcko

from django.core import exceptions
from django.db.models.fields.related import ForeignKey
from django.db.utils import ConnectionHandler, ConnectionRouter

connections = ConnectionHandler()
router = ConnectionRouter()


class SpanningForeignKey(ForeignKey):

taddeimania

import ast
import random

class MaybeType(type):
  
  def __repr__(cls):
    return str(bool(random.randint(0, 1)))
    
  def __nonzero__(cls):
    return ast.literal_eval(repr(cls))

jacobian

Where people struggle learning Django

Over the last 3 years or so I've helped a bunch of companies, small and large, switch to Django. As part of that, I've done a lot of teaching Django (and Python) to people new to the platform (and language). I'd estimate I've trained something around 200-250 people so far. These aren't people new to programming — indeed, almost all of them are were currently employed as software developers — but they were new to Python, or to Django, or to web development, or all three.

In doing so, I've observed some patterns about what works and what doesn't. Many (most) of the failings have been my own pedagogical failings, but as I've honed my coursework and my skill I'm seeing, time and again, certain ways that Django makes itself difficult to certain groups of users.

This document is my attempt at organizing some notes around what ways different groups struggle. It's not particularly actionable — I'm not making any arguments about what Django should or shouldn't do (at least