There are various options for working with a user model for creating a user profile and adding some specific information, for example, a profile photo. One way is to add a profile model with the OneToOneField field for the user. This option is simpler than a proxy model or overriding a user model. But for me personally, redefinition of the user model turned out to be more effective in terms of organizing code and writing various methods that allow you to extract the necessary information from the user object in templates without resorting to writing template tags.

Therefore, let's consider exactly the option of redefining the user model in a project in Django

Introducing the new release of EVILEG-CORE 0.0.5.

For a long time I did not add such functionality on the site for the simple reason that I did not know which side to approach this, because I would like to process this information in one single place, and not in every View.

Over time, I began to modify Backend classes for the site and the solution came by itself. It was only necessary to modify each authentication backend that is used on the site. And rewrite the get_user method, which will store information about the user's last request to the site. And the online status can be saved for the last 15 minutes, then the status will be offline.

And the date of the last request can be stored either in the user’s profile, which will be the OneToOne model for the user, or override the user model. I chose the option of overriding the user model.

I propose to consider the process of installing and configuring a Django project on Mac OS X based on an existing project.

Some steps will be similar to those already performed in the Django setup article for Ubuntu .

Когда вы разрабатываете большой проект, случайно можно забыть некоторые части кода, которые нужно протестировать. Coverage.py - это инструмент на python, который поможет вам в этом.

На ресурсе Medium Corporation пользователь под ником Samu делится опытом использования Jinja2.
По его словам ранее он использовал Jinja2 в своих проектах, созданных с помощью Flask. Но затем решил использовать Jinja2 с Django для потенциального повышения производительности (в 10-20 раз быстрее по сравнению с шаблонами Django) и взаимодействия с Nunjucks.
Samu делится опытом с людьми, которые уже знакомы с данными технологиями, а его статья призвана немного раскрыть и упростить шаги.

Gave free time to correct private messages on the site. This functionality is not used very often, so I do not make great efforts to improve it, although it is time to bring this functionality to adequate work.

Previously, there was a very big flaw, which was that the dialogue counter with unread messages was not shown, which led to the fact that the users who were sent the message simply did not pay attention to it, because they did not know about it.

Now I finally fixed this flaw. And in the framework of the previous code I will show which corrections were added.

When developing a web site that adds the ability to write comments or publish articles that allow html layout, the mechanism for clearing unwanted html tags, in particular script and style tags, is important, since malicious scripts on a quality resource definitely should not be present. It will also be good to be able to clean up the style of the text, especially if the resource implies a uniform style. The discordance of screaming fonts is not needed by anyone, and adds problems with the layout.

To implement this mechanism, I use the Python package Beautiful Soup 4 and finally wrote one class, which essentially does everything I need. Removes unnecessary tags, adds necessary classes to tags, saves classes in tags, if you need to leave them during stripping, this is important for classes that are added at the stage of writing a comment, for example, when inserting a YouTube video or adding program code when the user selects which programming language should be represented in the program code block.