I have a Python script that will be called daily from a scheduled service or daemon. The script uses MySQLdb to read a csv file and import data into a MySQL database that is used in my Django application. Some of the models contain ManyToMany relationships. I am directly inserting the relationships. I thought that this was working great until I tried to query the models from my Django view. For example, I have a list of students, and each student has one or more parents. Even though the students_student_parents table that stores the student/parent relationship is updated by the script, when I run the query to get a list of parents, the list is empty.
importedStudent = get_object_or_404(Student, pk=studentId) logger.info(importedStudent) the_parents = importedStudent.parents.all().values_list('id', flat=True) It appears that I have one of two choices: 1) Figure out what really happens under the covers when I add a parent to a student in a Django form and call save() or save_m2m(). 2) Instead of inserting data into my tables using MySQLdb cursor execute methods, would it be better for me to create a service in my Django application that my script can call? Any suggestions? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/mjJFBffN-ZcJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.