Hey Victor, I did the django-batchimport mentioned earlier. I think it will address your need but is definitely aimed at XLS. However, it does already handle duplicates (it will either update them or ignore them based on setting). You can also specify a subset of model fields to use to determine whether a given row represents a duplicate. This allows for "batch update" too.
If you get into it and have any problems, drop me a note. Keyton On Jan 6, 12:02 am, Victor Hooi <victorh...@yahoo.com> wrote: > heya, > > This question might seem a bit simple, but what's the best way to > instantiate models from .csv files? > > Essentially, I have two .csv files. One contains a list of people, and > their access rights (one-to-many). The second .csv file contains a log > of doorway access (just a bunch of sequential lines). I have a simple > python script which imports these two .csv files, does some processing > (the files are quite messy), creates user and access-entry objects, > and produces a reconciliation with a list of exceptions (basically > door entries which aren't in the list of user/access rights). Each > user is just a dictionary, with their username as key, and a tuple of > dictionary objects for their various access rights. > > I would like a simple django project to import these logs, instantiate > models, and then basically manage it via the in-built admin interface, > hopefully saving a lot of time =). (will also need to deal with > duplicates). Is there a smart way to go about doing this project, or > any existing addons I can leverage off? > > Thanks, > Victor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
