Question

If you have a date time field within the admin, and you invoke the “Today” link it seems it throws an exception from calendar.js where it references an undefined global method get_format. This doesn’t seem to be defined in any of the latest admin js files.

Edit:

It seems like it was using a different i18n.py file from my standard django 1.1 on the system. Here’s my wsgi file:

import os, sys, site

site.addsitedir( '/srv/python-environments/django1point2/lib/python2.5/site-packages')

sys.path.append('/srv/')
sys.path.append('/srv/workarounds')

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'workarounds.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

What do I need to alter so it relies on the i18n.py in the addsitedir string I specify instead of my system default?

Answer 1

Your .wsgi code puts the virtualenv site-packages after the system site-packages, so global packages will take priority. I use the following snippet (from the mod_wsgi documentation on use with virtualenv, which I recommend) to put the virtualenv site-packages first:

ALLDIRS = [os.path.join(virtenv, 'lib',
                                 'python%s' % sys.version[:3],
                                 'site-packages')]

# Remember original sys.path.
prev_sys_path = list(sys.path)

# Add project directory
sys.path.append(project)

# Add each new site-packages directory.
for directory in ALLDIRS:
  site.addsitedir(directory)

# Reorder sys.path so new directories at the front.
new_sys_path = []
for item in list(sys.path):
    if item not in prev_sys_path:
        new_sys_path.append(item)
        sys.path.remove(item)
sys.path[:0] = new_sys_path