Ah, I see. It is possible there is the odd typo, and useful information omission, in the Definitive Guide. I've found the documentation on the Django website to be *mostly* error free. The CharField for example is accurately documented (http:// docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/ #django.db.models.CharField.max_length).
Overall though, there is definitely a bit of a learning curve to getting the system up and running and have all the database setup correctly. Once you get over the hump though things will start to make a lot more sense. R. On Sep 17, 1:07 pm, NoviceSortOf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 17, 4:54 pm, "R. Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Glad to hear you have some of your setup up and running. > > > Your comment on defining fields in the models surprised me though. > > All the fields for your models in Django should start with model, > > followed by the field-type, as the documentation states. Are you sure > > you have models module being imported? The line 'from django.db > > import models' should be at the top of all your models.py files. > > > R. > > That seems to be in order, the problems though were the confusion over > the > max_length (current usage) maxlength (seemingly from and older ver. of > django) > parameters in models.py, and not having setup a 'mysite' database to > begin with prior to running "python manage.py sqlall" > > Chapter 5 [...Databases] in the Definative Guide to Django, makes > quick > mention of using command line CREATE DATABASE but its an easy detail > to pass over. We found going to phpPGadmin GUI for preliminary > database > creation, and subsequent data inspection after a succesful run of > manage.py sqlall a big help. > > With Redhat we are swimming a little upstream, as something like > Ubuntu may > of made things easier by having better installation mechanisms, that > better match the django documentation. Our idea was well, we have > python, > and apache already loaded on our production server so why not go for > it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
