Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-27 Thread Sam Lai
On 27 January 2011 14:26, Casual Coder wrote: > Is there a way to see what all got imported from django? In Python, you can see what is available in each imported module by using the dir function, e.g. >>> import django >>> dir(django) ['VERSION', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-27 Thread Casual Coder
Thanks Mike & Russ, I was using 0.96 for development with Google App Engine. Stubbornly. I really didn't HAVE to use GAE. I picked it as a hosting & auth headstart. My rampup has been embarrassingly slow (Python, Django, Eclipse newbie) so I think I'll switch over to a newer version of Django

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > On 27/01/2011 2:35pm, Casual Coder wrote: > > import django > django.VERSION >> >> (0, 96.406, None) >> > django.get_version() >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >>   File "", line 1, in >> AttributeError: '

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 27/01/2011 2:35pm, Casual Coder wrote: import django django.VERSION (0, 96.406, None) django.get_version() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_version' Maybe Django version 0.96 didn't use a get_vers

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Casual Coder
>>> import django >>> django.VERSION (0, 96.406, None) >>> django.get_version() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_version' -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Djan

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Casual Coder
Mike I appreciate your answers and am trying them lots of ways. Still not getting that Django linkage in my console. >>> import django >>> django.get_version() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'get_version' Is there a way

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 27/01/2011 1:02pm, Casual Coder wrote: Thanks Mike. But Darn I'm not as powerful as I had hoped. I expected DUMPDATA to work the same way, but it doesn't. How did VERSION work? VERSION didn't actually "work". It is a constant which is an attribute of django. Bear in mind that django is

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Casual Coder
Thanks Mike. But Darn I'm not as powerful as I had hoped. I expected DUMPDATA to work the same way, but it doesn't. How did VERSION work? and why doesn't django-admin.py dumpdata work? >>> django-admin.py dumpdata File "", line 1 django-admin.py dumpdata ^ Sy

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Casual Coder
On Jan 26, 8:13 pm, Mike Dewhirst wrote: >  >>> from django import VERSION >  >>> VERSION > (1, 3, 0, 'alpha', 1) Ah. That works. I have suddenly become quite powerful. Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to t

Re: newbie help with console, can't run Django function

2011-01-26 Thread Mike Dewhirst
On 27/01/2011 12:02pm, Casual Coder wrote: I'd like to get handy with using the console. Do I have a setup problem or a usage problem? >>> from django import VERSION >>> VERSION (1, 3, 0, 'alpha', 1) >>> See following pydev console output. Am I not able to run get_version() like that?