Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-19 Thread Tim Chase
>> I dislike CSV because it takes extra overhead to >> synchronize the flavors of them (how are quotes quoted? are >> values quoted? etc). > > Psst! Check out Python's built-in ``csv`` module > (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html); it handles all that > nastiness for you. I've used it

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-19 Thread Chris Hoeppner
mat to parse in python... > > Either that or tab-delimited text. I have a django app that does bulk data > upload from the admin interface according to the following protocol. > > 1. Users make their bulk upload data tables in excel. > > 2. They log onto the Django admin site, w

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Chris Moffitt
Also, this library is really simple to use to pull data out of excel. http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.htm --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On 7/18/07, Tim Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dislike CSV because it takes extra overhead to > synchronize the flavors of them (how are quotes quoted? are > values quoted? etc). Psst! Check out Python's built-in ``csv`` module (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-csv.html); it handles all

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Toby Dylan Hocking
> What about CSV? You can export from Excel as CSV pretty easily and it's a > fairly easy format to parse in python... Either that or tab-delimited text. I have a django app that does bulk data upload from the admin interface according to the following protocol. 1. Users make thei

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Chase
> left: bulk upload. I've thought of using xls (microsoft > office's excel files) to make it easy on the client, because > teaching them xml or yaml isn't the big deal. After thinking > about it, finding a xls parser module for python might not be > the problem, I second the idea of using a

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Adam Fast
I won't attempt to tackle the image conundrum (because our old ecommerce site is of the single-image variety, which makes it easy). The other, though I can help you with. My models yield four tables (products, product_categories, product_site to tie it to a site, and product_attributes). I

Re: Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread David Reynolds
On 18 Jul 2007, at 12:00 pm, Chris Hoeppner wrote: Hi there! I've been working on an ecommerce solution. So far everything works like it should. There's just one "nice to have" feature left: bulk upload. I've thought of using xls (microsoft office's excel files) to make it easy on the

Bulk data upload

2007-07-18 Thread Chris Hoeppner
Hi there! I've been working on an ecommerce solution. So far everything works like it should. There's just one "nice to have" feature left: bulk upload. I've thought of using xls (microsoft office's excel files) to make it easy on the client, because teaching them xml or yaml isn't the big deal.