Django-import- export is along the lines of what I want to implement, this is how i eventually managed to import a csv file as a user.... there are drawbacks to the library, the biggest one being its not the easiest to use without admin integration, which isn't always possible in large projects... I wanted to implement something similar to loaddata, but for .csv files, or .xls files rather than just the dumpdata.json
```python manage.py dumpdata > dumped_data.json``` and ```python manage.py loaddata < dumped_data.json``` do an Excellent job of taking data from existing django models and re using them, I was thinking about adding a similar functionality for datasets into models. So something like ```*python manage.py loaddata datast.csv <app>.<model>*``` Do you think this would be helpful....? P.S. I'm very new to this so I'm not sure how to go about making a proposal in the community etc, so if I'm doing this wrong, please point me to the correct direction On Friday, 27 November 2020 at 00:39:13 UTC+5:30 jon.du...@gmail.com wrote: > Is django-import-export at all along the lines of what you're looking for? > > https://github.com/django-import-export/django-import-export > > > django-import-export is a Django application and library for importing > and exporting data with included admin integration. > > ... > > support multiple formats (Excel, CSV, JSON, ...) > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:53 AM Muskan Vaswan <muskan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I am Muskan and am very new to this community however not that new to >> django itself. Contributing to django is something I would really like to >> do, and I might also be participating in GSoc for the same. >> >> I have an vague idea of what I want to fix, because I myself have used >> django and just want to add things as a developer that I would've wanted as >> a user. So my question is understanding based around this idea of mine. >> >> *I want to know what functionality already exists that makes it easier to >> directly load a large data set into a django model from a CSV file (going >> with the simplest format or now).* When I had to do it as a user it took >> me quite a while and was a lot more complicated than I had expected, after >> being used to smooth transitions with load data. I could not find any >> better methods to do it, if there indeed exists no other methods, this is >> something I would like to work on.... So this is just to confirm if my >> research was thorough enough (very possibly wasn't). >> >> Thank you! I'm excited to begin helping out! >> >> -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a3946181-cd91-4b83-b9d6-d8d8f786b6acn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/a3946181-cd91-4b83-b9d6-d8d8f786b6acn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/10f21e35-9ff3-42c6-8798-dfd3cda0ecb7n%40googlegroups.com.
