Thanks for getting back. I have to assume the code's been tested pretty rigorously, as it's straight from an O'Reilly book. I know that doesn't mean the code is perfect, but surely they wouldn't say CouchDB will do something it can't. Or would it?
At any rate, shortly after posting I found this post from last year: https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201007.mbox/%[email protected]%3E that advises I pop this in the local.ini: [query_servers] python = /usr/local/bin/couchpy I'll try it when I get home. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Ben Hunter wrote: > > I am merely running through some of the exercises in 'Mining the Social > Web'. All the programs that store data to CouchDB work fine, but when the > couchdb module is used to create a view, it throws 'Server error 500 > unknown > query language python’. > > As far as I know, CouchDB doesn’t support writing view functions in Python, > only JavaScript and Erlang. Unless there’s an external view server that > implements this; but that’s not a standard part of CouchDB, rather something > extra you’d have to install. Maybe double-check the installation/setup > instructions in the book? > > —Jens > >
