I can answer for the settings part :)
Make sure your project is in your PYTHONPATH environment variable and
that DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE also exists as an environment variable.
See
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#designating-the-settings
On Jul 8, 7:15 am, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> > On 7/8/07, Carl Karsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Russell Keith-Magee wrote:
> >>> Django users have many skills. Unfortunately, mind reading is
> >>> generally not one of those skills :-)
>
> >> Yeah, I see what you mean. seemed obvious to me :)
>
> >> does django expose it's ORM so that I can do the above code (connect to
> >> server,
> >> execute query) and get results back that I can access using
> >> object.fieldname
> >> notation? (or a dict)
>
> > Well, depends what level you want to deal with it.
>
> > If you want Django to handle the full stack, then you will need to
> > write a Django model that corresponds to the model you are trying to
> > import. Usually not that difficult to do, but somewhat excessive
> > effort for a temporary measure.
>
> Ok, not that big a deal. even with "inspectdb will help somewhat," it still
> seems more trouble than it is worth.
>
> > Another alternative is to use the cursor to retrieve a row, then feed
> > that row directly into the Django object of choice:
>
> > for row in cursor.fetchAll():
> > user = User(*row)
> > user.save()
>
> > This assumes that the field names coming back from the cursor
> > correspond to the field names in the object you are saving; if this
> > isn't the case, you may need to do some dictionary munging on the *row
> > part.
>
> Unfortunately, I need to do some mucking, including field names with spaces.
> geez.
>
>
>
> >> This code just bothers me:
> >> user = User.objects.create_user( member[5], member[4], member[6] )
>
> > Why? It's just a manager shorthand for:
>
> > now = datetime.datetime.now()
> > user = self.model(None, username, '', '', email.strip().lower(),
> > 'placeholder', False, True, False, now, now)
> > user.set_password(password)
> > user.save()
>
> the User.objects.create_user() part is great. the member[5], member[4],
> member[6] magic numbers bothers me.
>
> I was hoping for
> user = User.objects.create_user( member.username, member.pw,
> member.first_name )
>
>
>
> >> Also, django.contrib.auth.models import User needs settings imported, and
> >> import-users.py is in a util/ dir under the 'home dir' that holds
> >> settings.py.
> >> What is a good way to reference ../settings.py?
>
> > Something like:
>
> > from myproject import settings as myproject_settings
>
> like that, only completely different :)
>
> When I run my code (below) I get:
>
> self._target = Settings(settings_module)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/conf/__init__.py", line 83,
> in
> __init__
> raise EnvironmentError, "Could not import settings '%s' (Is it on
> sys.path?
> Does it have syntax errors?): %s" % (self.SETTINGS_MODULE, e)
> EnvironmentError: Could not import settings 'settings' (Is it on sys.path?
> Does
> it have syntax errors?): No module named settings
>
> I am assuming there are a few bad ways to solve this, and I am trying to
> avoid them.
>
> also, (still someone on topic, given my vague subject)
> Is the profile=... profile.save() look right? I'm not too sure what order the
> new/new/save/save should be done in.
>
> Carl K
>
> # migrate.py
> # migrates data from RidgeMoorJonas.Member to django.auth_user
> # uses the django user api,
> # mainly to create the password based on the current one.
>
> from django.contrib.auth.models import User
> import MySQLdb
>
> con = MySQLdb.connect(user='u', passwd='v' db='src' )
> cur=con.cursor()
>
> # reset the tables
> cur.execute("truncate auth_user")
> cur.execute("truncate eventcal_event")
>
> # Create django Users
> cSql="""
> select MemberNumber, Surname, `Given name`,
> `Familiar Name`, `Email Address`
> UserID, UserPassword, Telephone
> from Member limit 1
> """
> cur.execute(cSql)
> members = cur.fetchall()
> for member in members:
> # user = User.objects.create_user('john', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
> 'johnpassword')
> user = User.objects.create_user( member[5], member[4], member[6] )
> user.first_name=member[2]
> user.last_name = member[1]
> profile = UserProfile.objects.create(user=user)
> profile.phone_number=member[7]
> user.save()
> profile.save()
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