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Use HTTP basic authentification to login into Django

Let's imagine you have a view somewhere on your website you want to password protect using your usual django login but you are too lazy to design a form to input your credentials. This makes sense if the view is for your own use and you don't need to have a fancy login page. In such a case the easiest and fastest way to proceed is to use ...

Admin interface with foreign key on a very long list

If your application has a model with a ForeignKey on an other model which gets a lot of entries in the database, the auto-generated admin interface can become a nightmare to load. Django will render your ForeignKey using a select drop-down and with thousands of entries loading time and browser memory are in bad shape.

Solution is rather simple, add your ForeignKey in the raw_id_fields parameter in the Django admin ...

Check all items in a list are contained in an other list

In some code I wrote today I needed a way to check that all items in a list are contained in an other list. And I came up with a one-liner I found useful enough for sharing :

>>> big_list = [1,2,3]
>>> small_list = [1,3]
>>> all([i in big_list for i in small_list])
True
>>> small_list = [1,4]
>>> all([i in big_list for i in small_list])
False