I use Djano ORM for a lot of my backend processing where no web is
involved. Just make sure that DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is defined in
your environment and you can use pretty much any part of Django in
your own code/scrits/whatever.
HTH
Jirka
On 15/04/2011, Aviv Giladi <avivgil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I am an experienced Python developer starting to work on web service
> backend system. The system feeds data (constantly) from the web to a
> MySQL database. This data is later displayed by a frontend side (there
> is no connection between the frontend and the backend). The backend
> system constantly downloads flight information from the web (some of
> the data is fetched via APIs, and some by downloading and parsing
> text / xls files). I already have a script that downloads the data,
> parses it, and inserts it to the MySQL db - all in a big loop. The
> frontend side is just a bunch of php pages that properly display the
> data by querying the MySQL server.
>
> It is crucial that this web service be robust, strong and reliable.
> Therefore, I have been looking into the proper ways to design it, and
> got the following recommendation:
> django as the framework (over Apache).
> wrapping my sources with Piston for API usage.
> All if this sounds great. I used django before to write websites (aka
> request handlers that return data). However I don't see how django can
> fulfill a role of a constant running (non request-serving) system -
> being that it uses views/forms, which are not a part of my backend
> system. Is want I want at all possible / advisable with django? Is
> django what you would recommend for this?
> If so, could you please refer me to some documentation / help files
> more specific to my needs?
>
> Thank you so much,
> Aviv
>
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