Re: Automatically loading data into Django

you might want to read through this snippet. http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/788/ its a csv import script which imports to a django db from a csv file. very easy to use. im using it relatively successfully. it populates a model, but it errors if you try and set a boolean and i havent worked out

Re: Automatically loading data into Django

Reading CSV with Python, see: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/handling-csv-files-python I'm not sure you need a dictionary view as well (?) - the above tutorial shows how tuples are created, which may be sufficient for your needs. Working through a Django tutorial, or the first part of The Dj

Re: Automatically loading data into Django

Thanks for the response. I think that is exactly what I'm looking for. But, being a newb, this raises new questions that I will spare the group. Could you point me toward a book or tutorial that would show me how to do that? Thanks. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Shawn Milochik wrote: > It doe

Re: Automatically loading data into Django

It doesn't seem like converting your data into fixtures will provide any advantage. If it's pipe-delimited, then just write a Python script imports the CSV module (which can handle other delimiters) and your model(s). Use it to read the data and convert it to dictionaries, then create instances of

Automatically loading data into Django

Hello, I'm trying to automatically update a Django project using json fixtures. ... There is a pipe delimited file that is automatically updated. I would like to save the data from that file into a Django project. The way I have been approaching this is to convert the file into json fixtures and u