Re: Automating the process of creating models from the data file provided

2019-02-14 Thread Abhilasha Jha
Hi Collin Thanks for the reply. I will see what I can do, and if this project is worth pursuing. Best regards Abhilasha -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and s

Re: Automating the process of creating models from the data file provided

2019-02-14 Thread Abhilasha Jha
Hi Carlton, Thanks for the reply, saw it today. Will go through the links you have given. Best regards Abhilasha -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop rece

Re: Automating the process of creating models from the data file provided

2019-02-07 Thread Collin Anderson
Hi Abhilasha, This is ringing a bell. I almost started working on an "inspectfile" feature many years ago as a Google Summer of Code project. https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-developers/z88grOaxEHU/discussion https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-gsoc/V9FdRVZ7gMg/discussion I ended u

Re: Automating the process of creating models from the data file provided

2019-02-07 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hi Abhilasha, There's any number of ways you could go... 🙂 But... Have a look at Simon Willison's Datasette project. http://datasette.readthedocs.io/ In particular see the various ...-to-sqlite tools listed here: https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ecosystem.html If you can get that

Automating the process of creating models from the data file provided

2019-02-07 Thread Abhilasha Jha
Hi all, I was thinking if a feature could be added to Django models, such that when the CSV/ text or any other commonly used data file is added to the project and the models are automatically created and populated. I have not tried to go through nitty-gritty of the feature, but am thinking of do