Thanks Daniel, your guess was correct Id left out the handle stuff competely. It appears to be working perfectly now! Phil
On 22 Feb, 13:21, Daniel Roseman <roseman.dan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Feb 22, 1:00 pm, "phyl.jack...@gmail.com" <phyl.jack...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I have a little custom script that changes some database stuff and > > sends an email - I want to set it to run on a cron job. > > > So Ive been trying to set it up as a custom django-admin command, Ive > > been trying to use this little bit of info- > > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands... > > > I cannot get it tor work. Ive made the dir struture it suggests and it > > is finding my python file, Im just not sure how to structure it. I > > have this in an update.py file- > > > from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand > > import os > > import sys > > > class Command(BaseCommand): > > #--my script-- > > > The error I get is a NotImplementedError. I know it is reading the > > stuff in place of #--my script-- because it was giving me specific > > errors related to my script until I fixed them all. I try just putting > > something simple in place of #--my script-- like x=1 and it still > > gives me that NotImplementedError. Am I doing this right? What should > > my update.py file look like? > > > Thanks for any help! > > Phil > > You've cunningly cut out from the code you posted the actual contents > of the Command class, which is the bit that would enable us to > diagnose the problem. But at a guess, you have just put the script > directly under the class. It actually needs to go into a method called > 'handle', which is what is called when the command is run. Without > that method, Django is calling the method in the base class, which > raises NotImplementedError to tell you you need to override it. > > class Command(BaseCommand): > help = """Removes doubled up HTML classes caused by a TinyMCE > problem""" > > def handle(self, *args, **options): > ... script goes here... > > -- > DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
