I am prepopulating my database with data from a number of flat files.
I've written a small script to do this using my model class. While this
works, there are a couple of kludges I made to get it to work and I was
hoping someone could advise my on a better way to do this.
First, to use the model from a script I had to set the
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable and add the base directory
to sys.path. I've seen this before so I guess this is just the way it
is but it would be nice not to have dependencies on environment
variables. Is there a different way to do this?
Second, I'm using a manipulator to convert string values from the file
to python values but the do_html2python method expects a POST which
isn't quite the same as a dict. I had to write a little wrapper dict to
make it compatible:
class MyDict(dict):
def getlist(self, key):
return (self[key],)
def setlist(self, key, value):
self[key] = value[0]
Again, not a big deal but it seems kludgy and I thought there might be
a better way. Any ideas?
Finally, for dates I had to manually convert them because they weren't
in the yyyy-mm-dd format required by DateField.html2python. It seems a
bit limited to only support one date format in DateField but I guess
that avoids the ambiguities with date formats. Since my model's fields
are the same names as the column headings in the flat files, now I can
map all the conversions automatically without doing anything
field-specific, *except* for date fields. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-Dave
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