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Python Django ORM Same Old ORM django-debug-toolbar

Alx Ki
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Django Debug Toolbar with PyCharm

  1. I installed django debug toolbar to virtual environment.
  2. I added debug-toolbar to INSTALLED_APPS after django.contrib.staticfiles.
  3. I added debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware to MIDLEWARE as PyCharm said.
  4. I tried Django 1.9.6 and 1.10.4. Toolbar 1.6

No errors, no toolbar.

Please, help, Kenneth Love

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
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I am not using PyCharm. Though, I assume you might be hitting a similar snag I had in another IDE.

Captain Obvious (pointing at me) says make sure you install the debug toolbar.

$ pip install django_debug_toolbar

I had to do a couple of edits to the project files to ensure the toolbar worked.

learning_site/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'debug_toolbar', # Added this (Kenneth said so in the video)
    'courses',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware', # added this line, this Kenneth didn't mention
)

...

INTERNAL_IPS= ['127.0.0.1'] # Kenneth showed this in a video, but also that kinda strange Lambda thing for workspaces

Even after this, I got a namespace error too, so I had to add this into the urls.py

learning_site/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
import debug_toolbar # add this

from . import views

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^courses/', include('courses.urls', namespace='courses')),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^suggest/$', views.suggestion_view, name='suggestion'),
    url(r'^$', views.hello_world, name='home'),
    url(r'^__debug__/', include(debug_toolbar.urls)), # added this line
]

urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()

I hope this helps, Jeff

6 Answers

Jeff Muday
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I am using WingIDE Personal (paid version under $50). It compares favorably to PyCharm in terms of features and Django awareness, and (in my experience) has a snappier response on its various platform offerings (it works brilliantly as I frequently switch between computers and platforms while on the job and when I work from home). The Linux, Mac, and Windows versions have a nearly identical feel.

The free version of WingIDE 101 is not quite refined enough for a serious Django project, but does work.

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
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Those changes I suggested did work for me under PyCharm version 4.5.2

Jeff Muday
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Jeff Muday
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By the way, WingIDE Personal Edition, now in the 6.x version is FREE. It works great and has "Django awareness". Pycharm has improved quite a bit too from a year ago, but I still favor the Wingware offering.

mykolash
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mykolash
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Hi fellows,

let me add just few words.

I've occurred such an issue just after debug_tools installing and setup (seems to be similar to yours):

Exception Type: TypeError 

Exception Value: process() missing 1 required positional argument: 'stream'

And fixed it. Tried different debug_tool versions - it's NOT debug_tool issue. Seems to be it's SQLParse issue.

So, I did two things: (Working on Windows10 - but I guess it deals nothing w/ OS)

  1. Explicit setup of debug_tool: https://django-debug-toolbar.readthedocs.io/en/1.4/installation.html
  2. Reinstall SQLParse (I had "sqlparse==0.2.3"): (found same bug here: https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar/issues/856)
pip uninstall sqlparse

pip install sqlparse==0.9

And that's it. Not sure was it explicit setup or sqlparse reinstall, but now I do have debug_tool panel on FrontEnd and I do NOT want to touch anything! o_O I've spent almost three hours (yep, I'm rookie!) scrutinizing this crippy issue. And it's enough!

No thanx! Just help some other django rookie like me when he/she will need it.

Nathan Partridge
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Nathan Partridge
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Thanks, your fix of installing the different version of sqlparse worked. However, I found that there was no 0.9 version, but there was a 0.1.9 in the list of available versions that pip returned. So I assumed that some how .1 was left out and installed 0.1.9 which works.

mykolash
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Me personally, I guess yes.

But!

Not only this. DEBUG mode also should be disabled and many more stuff, I guess.

I think we need to ask @KennethLove to add such a course - "Deploying Django project live".

If you're interested - feel free to glance through DjangoGirls (you can notice its sticker on Kenneth's laptop) deploy chapter.

https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/deploy/

But, I would recommend you to pass it all from the very beginning - they use PythonAnywhere hosting service. It would take you few hours for all. Barely a day.

Henrik Christensen
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Thank you very much for the quick respond :-)

I'm still working on my first real project, but I just like to know in advance :-P Yeah it would be nice to have such a course "Deploying Django Project Live".

Douglas North
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Douglas North
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I had a problem for ages but it's usually a silly human error. I was including it into my app urls file, not the main one xD Constantly learning from silly mistakes that cut away 20 minutes of your time.