Awesome Free Django Hosting: Alwaysdata

There aren't many sites that do a good job of hosting free Django services. Alwaysdata, however does a fantastic job. Here's a quick way to set your project up.
-get a free 10MB account
-place Django Project in the www directory
-add .htaccess to www director(see below)
-add django.fcgi file (see below)

	AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ django.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]

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	#!/usr/bin/python
	import os, sys
	#change ALWAYSDATASUBDIRECTORYNAME
	#change labcon3 to the name of the django project folder
	_PROJECT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
	sys.path.insert(0, "/home/ALWAYSDATASUBDIRECTORYNAME/python")
	sys.path.insert(0, _PROJECT_DIR)
	sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(_PROJECT_DIR))
	sys.path.insert(0, _PROJECT_DIR)
	sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(_PROJECT_DIR, 'labcon3'))
	_PROJECT_NAME = _PROJECT_DIR.split('/')[-1]
	os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = "labcon3.settings"
	from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
	runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false")

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Unity 3d with Django

After spending nearly 18 hours fidgeting with code to let Unity3d interact with Django for user authentication, I succeeded. If you want to use these two technologies together, I suggest you try out my stripped-down Django project hosted on github. The Readme contains more technical details.

https://github.com/rawatenator/unitydjango

Python script allows you to recursively rename files an folders

	#! /usr/bin/python
	# batch_replace_text.py
	# Copyright Rishi Rawat - Feel free to distribute, but retain this line
	# MIT license
	import os
	import re
	dirpath = input("enter a path to the dir: ")
	find = input("word to find: ")
	replace = input("word to replace: ")
	print "finding '%s', replacing with '%s' starting at the directory: '%s'\n\n " %(find, replace, dirpath)
	boolean = input("Y/N")
	class replacer:
	def __init__(self, path, searchword, repword):
	self.basepath = path
	self.searchword = searchword
	self.repword = repword
	def replace_file(self,fname):
	f = open(fname)
	contents = f.read()
	f.close()
	contents2 = re.sub(self.searchword, self.repword, contents)
	f = open(fname,"w")
	f.write(contents2)
	f.close()
	if contents2 != contents:
	print "\t\t changed %s" % (fname)
	def replace_folder(self,root, dir_name):
	oldpath = os.path.join(root,dir_name)
	newname = re.sub(self.searchword, self.repword, dir_name)
	newpath = os.path.join(root, newname)
	os.rename(oldpath, newpath)
	if oldpath != newpath:
	print "changed %s to %s" % (oldpath, newpath)
	return newname
	def main(self):
	"rename files"
	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(self.basepath):
	if '.git' in dirs:
	dirs.remove('.git') # don't visit git
	if '.svn' in dirs:
	dirs.remove('.svn') # don't visit svn
	for f in files:
	fname = os.path.join(root,f)
	self.replace_file(fname)
	print "\n\n"
	"do folders"
	for root, dirs, files in os.walk(self.basepath):
	newdirs = [self.replace_folder(root,d) for d in dirs]
	dirs = newdirs
	if boolean == 'Y':
	r = replacer(dirpath, find, replace)
	r.main()

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