Re: Easy display of table of data without a backing model

2009-05-04 Thread JL
Another hack would be to make your data structure look 'enough' like a Django model such that the generic views would work for you. Remember that Python follows duck-typing principles so if your data structures looks enough like querysets and data models, then you could use the generic views. I

Re: Easy display of table of data without a backing model

2009-05-03 Thread Richard Davies
P.S. An obvious hack would be to save all my data from memory into a Django model, then do the view based on the model. I'd like to avoid that if at all possible, both because it's ugly to save data into the database just to pass it to a view and also because I'd then get into all kinds of issues

Easy display of table of data without a backing model

2009-05-03 Thread Richard Davies
Hi! I'd appreciate any advice / pointers on how the following can be done easily... I'm writing some web pages which display a large table of static data - a large number of rows, each with the same columns. Ideally the pages would look very much like the Django admin pages which show all instan