Re: using Django on an existing mysql schema

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:47 PM, William Muriithi < william.murii...@gmail.com> wrote: > ‎Hello, > > I am new to Django and planning to use it for a project I have in mind. I > am strong in mysql, but not too good in developing. In fact, the secondary > purpose of this project is to improve my

Re: using Django on an existing mysql schema

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Tobias Dacoir wrote: > I'm certainly no Django expert, but I'm not sure if you can use the orm > and an already existing database. > Yes, you absolutely can. There's even a management command (inspectdb) to help write the wrapper models, and a

Re: using Django on an existing mysql schema

I'm certainly no Django expert, but I'm not sure if you can use the orm and an already existing database. However the documentation states that you can write all queries yourself, essentially not using the orm. However if you do that, I'm wondering why you want to use Django at all? And pushing

using Django on an existing mysql schema

‎Hello, I am new to Django and planning to use it for a project I have in mind. I am strong in mysql, but not too good in developing. In fact, the secondary purpose of this project is to improve my python development skills. With such a background, I went about doing my data modeling and then