Hi Philippe, I think that it really depends on how modular you would like your Django project to be. Do you want the stats generation functionality to be separately pluggable from the pie-charting functionality? Is your gather_data app large enough (number of models) to warrant breaking it down? If so, perhaps you could separate the apps. If not, you might want to just have one.
A good place to look for this sort of advice is Daniel Greenfeld and Audrey Roy's new book found at https://django.2scoops.org/ (see Chapter 4: ''Fundamentals of Django App Design") . In it, they say (quote): "In essence, each app should be tightly focused on its task. If an app can’t be explained in a single sentence of moderate length, or you need to say ‘and’ more than once, it probably means the app is too big and should be broken up. On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com>wrote: > By the way, the book mentioned above - "Two Scoops of Django" - makes very > good reading for Django in general. I believe a good way to get apps > talking to each other is through the use urls.py configurations in > conjunction with views. More on that in the official Django tutorial. > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 2:28 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube < > zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Phillipe, >> >> I think that it really depends on how modular you would like your Django >> project to be. Do you want the stats generation functionality to be >> separately pluggable from the pie-charting functionality? Is your >> gather_data app large enough (number of models) to warrant breaking it >> down? If so, perhaps you could separate the apps. If not, you might want to >> just have one. >> >> Django apps are really Python packages. Do not worry about how you will >> pass data "between" them - if they are enabled in your INSTALLED_APPS >> global variable in settings.py, they will be loaded and you can import each >> from the other in your views.py file or wherever you need to import them, >> then call functions from each as you require and pass the necessary >> arguments. >> >> A good place to look for this sort of advice is Daniel Greenfeld and >> Audrey Roy's new book found at https://django.2scoops.org/ (see Chapter >> 4: ''Fundamentals of Django App Design") . In it, they say (quote): "In >> essence, each app should be tightly focused on its task. If an app can’t be >> explained in a single >> sentence of moderate length, or you need to say ‘and’ more than once, it >> probably means the app is >> too big and should be broken up. >> " >> >> >> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Philippe Schraepen < >> schraepen.phili...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm new to Python and Django so don't be to hard on me please :) >>> >>> I'm writing a Django project which analyses your music folders, gives >>> back statistics about it (like file-extentions, mp3 bitrate, number of >>> unique artists,...) and generates pie charts of these stats. >>> >>> My project currently consists of one 'gather_data' app which gathers the >>> necessary stats-data from my music libary. Now I want to create pie charts >>> of this data with the help of Mathplotlib. >>> >>> Now here are my three questions: >>> -Should I create a new 'piechart' app to create the pie charts or should >>> I just add another function to my first gather_data app? >>> -If I should use a different app for this, how can I let Django load the >>> first 'gather_data' app, and after this load the 'piechart' app? >>> -In case you guys recommend using a second app, should I move the data >>> between the two apps with the help of session variables? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Sithu Lloyd Dube >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Sithu Lloyd Dube > -- Regards, Sithu Lloyd Dube -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
