Hi All, I've just started learning Python and have a decent understanding on the core elements. Most of my programming experience prior to Python was vb.net, which I'd use it to put together some simple applications that would help me automate some tasks at work (I'm a sysadmin). I wanted to step away from a single platform and look at app development that didn't depend on the OS that was used.
So I developed my first Python application which uses Paramiko to SFTP a DNS config file from my enterprise's central DNS servers. It then parses the file and pulls out the zones and relevant data that's then stored in a list of tupples. I then thought wouldn't it be great to display these zones in a nice tabular format that can be edited. Did some research and found web2py. I've since run throuth the Overview section of the docs and built my first Web2Py App. Instead of saving the information to a list of tupples, it now saves it to a SQLite DB (which it truncates each time the config file is fetched). I can then use SQLFORM.grid to generate a nice looking table in my app. I've not got to the editing part yet, but that will come in time. The issue I have with the above method however is that is seems a little overkill to use a fully functional db. In vb.net, I'd create a datatable in memory and manipulate the table before writing the changes back to the config file when told to do so. As any of my colleagues may change the DNS config file at any time, loading the config file as required into RAM makes more sense to me than loading it into a database. I looked at how I might do this in Python and it seems that I can load a SQLite db into memory or the user's session but from what I can see in various searches, people are saying that this may not be a good idea. So I'm just wondering what would be the best way to do this? Any advice? Thanks Niels -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
