Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2012-12-07 Thread Blake West
Hi, I'm also a newb going through this tutorial and got stuck on the exact same thing. I'm using mac, but I also needed to put '.db' on it, and now it's working great! Thanks for posting up that solution! I was just fitzing with it the last half-hour to no avail. But now i got it! woo! On

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-04 Thread Alex Hall
On 3/4/11, Karen Tracey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > >> Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and >> changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and >> I gave it an extension of

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-04 Thread Karen Tracey
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Alex Hall wrote: > Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and > changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and > I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place as > before, so my

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
Well, looks like things are suddenly working. I started over, and changed two things: I removed the path from the database file name and I gave it an extension of .db. The file appeared in the same place as before, so my path was right, but the .db extension seems to have made something quite

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Hall
On 3/2/11, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, Alex Hall wrote: >> I get a very long traceback, ending with sqlite3.OperationalError: >> unable to open database file. > > looks like a permissions problem. Does the webserver have permissions to >

Re: newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 23:14 -0500, Alex Hall wrote: > I get a very long traceback, ending with sqlite3.OperationalError: > unable to open database file. looks like a permissions problem. Does the webserver have permissions to write to the parent directory of the sqllite file? btw, it is good

newbie going through basic tutorial

2011-03-01 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I have been working with Python for quite a while now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. I am in my last semester at college for a computer science degree, so I also have the background behind a lot of what Python does (objects, classes, all that). I am in a databases class and one