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django-stringfield 0.3.0
Better string field for Django.
A field intended for strings that typically has a length less than 500 characters. django-stringfield tries to not to enforce length on database level if possible but different databases have different limitations. Currently implemented as:
- PostgreSQL
- character varying
- MySQL
- VARCHAR (65528) [1]
- Oracle
- VARCHAR2 (4000)
- SQLite & Other backends
- TEXT
Installation
pip install django-stringfield
Usage
You use this just like the normal django.db.models.CharField except that the key word argument max_length works a little differently:
- It is optional and defaults to 500
- It only enforces max length on the default formfield not on the database.
Example:
# models.py
from stringfield import StringField
class MyModel(models.Model):
name = StringField()
| [1] | MySQL >= 5.0.3 should be able to handle a maximum length of 65535 but that does not work in my empirical testing using mysql 5.1.41 where 65528 is the maximum considering NULL and NOT NULL. |
| File | Type | Py Version | Uploaded on | Size | # downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| django-stringfield-0.3.0.tar.gz (md5) | Source | 2011-11-28 | 3KB | 258 | |
- Author: Mikko Hellsing
- Home Page: https://github.com/aino/django-stringfield
- License: BSD
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- DOAP record: django-stringfield-0.3.0.xml