(Post theme: With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker)
People (at lunch) at Kiwi PyCon were praising ChatGPT as a tool to help write code more efficiently, so I had another go.
I recently moved a Django project to use Whitenoise, and more specifically to have manifest files, where the version is appended to the collected file names. This all works great, except that there are a few files that users download, and instead of getting, for example, template.xlsx, they were getting template.{md5hash}.xlsx.
I asked how to have the file downloaded with the original name, rather than the one with the version hash. In retrospect, I realise I asked the wrong question, because this is an HTML question not a Django staticfiles one, but I hadn’t thought about it enough at the time, and, anyway, surely the assistant is meant to pick up on that.
The answer told me to use the ‘as’ functionality of the static tag, but that’s completely wrong. That’s to get the URL into a variable to use in the template.
To be fair, it then did give the correct answer, that the download attribute of the a tag should be used. So I guess I’d give this a B- grade, for getting the solution but confusing it with a bunch of irrelevant info first.
TonyAndrewMeyer 