I am pursuing the debug option now to see what I can learn.
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Michal Petrucha <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:20:42AM -0600, Malik Rumi wrote:
> > In [1]: import uuid
> >
> > In [2]: uuid.UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> > Out[2]: UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> > BUT
> >
> > In [3]: uuid.UUID4('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > AttributeError Traceback (most recent call
> last)
> > <ipython-input-3-8d12e49c94ea> in <module>()
> > ----> 1 uuid.UUID4('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> > AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'UUID4'
> >
> >
> > So uuid.UUID4() [or 3 or whatever] can only be used a certain way, as in
> > Michael's example?
>
> There's no such thing as UUID4 in the Python uuid module -- there's
> UUID (which is the class representing UUIDs), and there's the function
> uuid4 (note that it's lowercase, it takes no arguments, and it will
> return an instance of UUID).
>
> > The remaining question for me, then, is *what is the proper format *for a
> > uuid in a json fixture, or any other document I am trying to mass import
> > into Django?
> >
> > 61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74 - (apparently not)
> >
> > '61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74'
> >
> > ('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> > UUID('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> > urn:uuid('61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74')
> >
> > some other variation I haven't come up with yet?
> >
> > Here is a portion of my json document:
> >
> > [{"model": "essell.Code", "fields": { "uuid":
> > "48189959-be4c-4f10-819a-f1657061b3cd", "arrow": "Amendment II",
> > "shorttitle": "", "popularname": "Keep & Bear Arms", "acronym": "",
> > "offcite": "", "brokenarrow": "", "slug": "amendment-ii-keep-bear-arms",
> > "codetext": "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security
> of a
> > free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
> > infringed.", "effdate": "1792-03-13", "sunsetdate": "", "sunsetcause":
> > "''", "postdate": "2016-02-05 13:06:53.20548-06", "crossref": "''",
> > "codekind": "Article", "codekindsortseq": "1", "codelevel":
> "Constitution",
> > "codelevelsortseq": "1", "siblingrank": "11", "childof_id": "",
> > "jurisdiction_id": "e6e11b06-ea3b-4e98-a31f-9a83447ad884"} }, {"model"
> > ....
> >
> > As you can see, the uuid is double quoted, but so are all the keys and
> > values. This is normal json format as I understand it. So should the uuid
> > be single quoted inside the double quotes? i.e.
> >
> > "'61877565-5fe5-4175-9f2b-d24704df0b74'"
> >
> > How do I get this done? Thanks.
>
> The two UUIDs in that JSON snippet look correct at a first (and
> second) glance. Have you tried using a debugger, or just a
> quick-and-dirty print statement to see what value is being passed into
> uuid.UUID that makes it raise an exception?
>
> My guess would be that the JSON file contains a value somewhere that
> is not a correct UUID, but I may be wrong, of course.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michal
>
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