Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Lachlan Musicman
(GEdit and less/more shouldn't require too much learning - gedit is literally the equivalent of Notepad, less and more are what the 70s look like. L. On 9 July 2014 12:00, Janelle wrote: > Thanks, all, for the advice. > I am facing a number of learning curves, and I appreciate that you all take

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Janelle
Thanks, all, for the advice. I am facing a number of learning curves, and I appreciate that you all take time from the more advanced work you do to help me out. I'll seek someone local. On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > On 9/07/2014 6:24 AM, Janelle wrote: > >> I've never

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Lachlan Musicman
On 9 July 2014 06:24, Janelle wrote: > I've never worked in Ubuntu before, but from what I understand, there is no > text editor or Word or anything like that; everything is done through the > command line and there is no "desktop." > > So, how would I open settings.py with Ubuntu? > GEdit is a t

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 9/07/2014 6:24 AM, Janelle wrote: I've never worked in Ubuntu before, but from what I understand, there is no text editor or Word or anything like that; everything is done through the command line and there is no "desktop." So, how would I open settings.py with Ubuntu? You could try somet

RE: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
[mailto:django-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Janelle >Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 12:25 AM >To: django-users@googlegroups.com >Subject: Re: Django newbie issues > >I've never worked in Ubuntu before, but from what I understand, there is no >text >editor or Wor

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-08 Thread Janelle
I've never worked in Ubuntu before, but from what I understand, there is no text editor or Word or anything like that; everything is done through the command line and there is no "desktop." So, how would I open settings.py with Ubuntu? On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Lachlan Musicman wrote: >

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-07 Thread Lachlan Musicman
If they aren't in settings, then the software would never have worked (if it needed a DB) :) You can just open settings.py with a text editor - notepad, wordpad, gedit, emacs/vim, even word if you want. It's just a text file. Cheers L. On 8 July 2014 14:05, Janelle O'Dea wrote: > Again, super h

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-07 Thread Janelle O'Dea
Again, super helpful. I just have a few more (hopefully not terribly obvious) questions: this mechanism specified in settings.py; will I access settings.py the same way as manage.py? python settings.py runserver? If I find the credentials for the database (if they aren't in settings.py, I proba

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-07 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 8/07/2014 2:22 AM, Janelle O'Dea wrote: Thank you, Mike. I haven't tried your first option yet, but I will either today or tomorrow. What kinds of clues would I look for in settings? Django needs credentials to access the database and there should be a mechanism specified in settings to get

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-07 Thread Janelle O'Dea
Thank you, Mike. I haven't tried your first option yet, but I will either today or tomorrow. What kinds of clues would I look for in settings? Also: any ideas about my first question? Everyone: I'm in Naples, Florida. If anyone is in the Southwest Florida area and wants to try and help, I'll ge

Re: Django newbie issues

2014-07-06 Thread Mike Dewhirst
Janelle Your quickest solution is to reveal your location and ask for someone to help out on a short-term basis. There are heaps of Django people everywhere and many inhabit this list. What you are asking for is possibly quite easy but can defeat you if you are unfamiliar with the environmen