Questions tagged [app-engine-patch]
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app-engine-patch is dead. Now what is the best way to use Django on Google App Engine?
The app-engine-patch authors have officially marked this wonderful project as dead on their website. Over the last year a lot of people have asked what the best way to run Django on Google App Engine was, and time after time people have pointed to…

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Sys.path modification or more complex issue?
I have problems with importing correctly a module on appengine. My app generally uses django with app-engine-patch, but this part is task queues using only the webapp framework.
I need to import django settings for the app to work properly.
My…

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Images caching in browser - app-engine-patch application
I have a little problem with caching the images in the browser for my app-engine application
I`m sending last-modified, expires and cache-control headers but image is loaded from the server every time.
Here is the header part of the…

Ilian Iliev
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Set parent in a ModelForm in Google App Engine
I want to create an Entity Group relationship in an Entity that is being created through a ModelForm.
How do I pass the parent instance and set the parent= attribute in the ModelForm?

Iker Jimenez
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Browser-based strategy game in Django/GAE. Model suggestions?
I'm creating a turn and text-based strategy game in Django on Google App Engine with app-engine-patch. The simplified concept is that each player build can several different units and buildings to improve their base and fight other players for…

Jimmy Bernljung
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Does Google App Engine with app-engine-patch support emailing ADMINS upon 500 errors?
Django will email ADMINS upon 500 errors.
Reading app-engine-patch docs, it claims to enable mail support, but I can't tell if it does so enough to support 500 emailing.
I tried it and it doesn't seem to be working, but it is a silent failure with…

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import django settings in app-engine-patch
I have a problem with Django settings.
My app runs with app-engine-patch.
I added a script that runs without django, and is reached directly via the app.yaml handlers.
I then get this error:
File…

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Django vs GAE + Django vs GAE + other framework
I`m looking for opinion which one is better for building web applications(web sites).
I have some experience with Django, and some with Google App Engine and App-Engine-Patch
for Django. And it seems to me that only Django is working faster than the…

Ilian Iliev
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Django instance start under Google App Engine
After thinking quite a while about how to make a fast and scalable web application, I am almost decided to go for a combination of Google App Engine, Python+Django, and app-engine-patch. But I came across a comment in the app-engine-patch FAQ that…

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Memcache not present in App-Engine-Patch?
I'm trying to store a date into memcache using the following code:
from datetime import date
from google.appengine.api.memcache import Client
MEMCACHE_DATE_KEY = 'date'
client = Client()
def last_date():
return…

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django logging: log is not created
I'm running my app on the GAE development server, with app-engine-patch to run Django.
One of my views is bugged , so I want to log everything that happens.
I added in myapp.views:
import logging
LOG_FILENAME =…

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opening file: Writing is invalid mode
When executing:
path=os.path.dirname(__file__)+'/log.txt'
log=open(path,"w",encoding='utf-8')
I get:
log=open(path,'w',encoding='utf-8')
File "C:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\dev_appserver.py", line 1203, in…

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how can i use django session in GAE
i have an app in GAE, but i have no idea about how to use django session, although i know the app-engine-patch may be helpful. who can give me a demo how to use it for session? thank you!

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Send mail from app engine (anauthorization solution)
In googel app engine, if we are not using OpenID login, we can send mails like its written in API
But I use OpenId Login (using Google mail) and I cant use this.
But I do something like thatL
Properties props = new Properties();
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grep
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Serving simple image with App Engine django patch?
How the heck do i serve a simple img without all that MediaGenerator nonsense, in Django on App Engine?
I am using app engine patch.
I got layout like this:
django_app_engine_project_folder
my_app
Where should my folder for my media be? In…

Andriy Drozdyuk
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