Thanks for your help. I'll look into your suggestions. Steve
On Nov 26, 5:08 pm, Łukasz Rekucki <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2010 21:09, Charlietuna <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I looked for FAQ, but I couldn't find any. Here's my question. I've > > been working through the tutorials. I've taken a community college > > class on Python. So, I have some background there. > > I've gotten Django installed and working. So far, I've used sqlite3. > > > Here's the question: If you have an MySql database that is already > > establised with data, etc, > > how do you get Django to set up the abstraction of the db, so that you > > can access the data. > > > I've worked with the tutorials where you use Django to create the > > database. You use syncdb command to setup the "abstraction" of the > > data. How do you do it the other direction? > > If you have an existing schema in your database, you can use > django-admin.py inspectdb[1] to create models from it. It's not > guaranteed to be 100% correct, so you may need to tweak the generated > models. If you have a database table that you want to access, but > don't won't Django to manage it's schema, you can use > "managed=False"[2] on the model. Hope that helps :) > > [1]:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#inspectdb > [2]:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#managed > > -- > Łukasz Rekucki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
