Thanks for posting. Glad it worked!
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:45 AM, wrote:
> Recently I migrated content from Drupal to Mezzanine using jupyter
> notebook and pandas.
>
> After numerous dead ends, fighting with the inherited table structure of
> Mezzanine Pages/RichTextPages, it looked something like this:
>
>
>1. install shell_plus jupyter notebook on same (Ubuntu) server as
>Mezzanine installation, in my virtualenv. Need django_extensions for this.
>This interfaces directly with Django models (may need to be in the same
>directory as manage.py), and is a super useful interface to have; you can
>now manipulate your data, even live, with pandas. This can be run from my
>laptop via Putty SSH tunneling.
>2. Reproduce mysql database from Drupal on Ubuntu server.
>3. Load relevant data into pandas dataframe using mysql.connector,
>super fast
>4. was able to clean up some inconsistencies while data was in
>dataframe, e.g. Drupal uses \n\r\n for paragraph breaks (Mezzanine or
>tinymce ignores these) which I replaced with html p tags.
>5. Can't use bulk_create() with inherited models. My data was destined
>for Page and RichTextPage objects. First you must create the RichTextPage
>objects. I iterated over dataframe rows with itertuples() to create
>RichTextPage objects, which I saved one at a time. Made sure to have an
>index in dataframe that corresponded to the id or pk of the RichTextPage
>objects I created.
>6. This also created Page objects which I then updated individually
>with the correct title, in_menus, slug, created, site_id, and other fields
>again using itertuples over the dataframe.
>
> Somewhat of an involved procedure but it worked well.
>
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