Re: Dynamic Models for CSV Importing

2013-04-15 Thread Max Demars
Hello André, I wonder if you successfuly found a way to achieve what you were talking in this post. Actually, I am looking for something similar. Instead of uploading .csv my app would allow users to upload shapefile. I am reading about dynamic models but the doc is scarce. If you can share a b

Re: Dynamic Models for CSV Importing

2011-06-20 Thread Andre Terra
Thanks for the quick reply, Shawn! The reason I wanted to use Django was so that I could leverage the ORM to allow users to do arbitrary SQL filtering/grouping before the data gets saved onto the production DB. Assuming a 1.5 million lines CSV file (which is probably the smallest file users would

Re: Dynamic Models for CSV Importing

2011-06-20 Thread Shawn Milochik
I don't see where Django comes in -- at least not for the core of the app. Python certainly, with the xlwt and xlrd modules being incredibly helpful. Secondly, I'd use MongoDB (via pymongo) to store the temporary data, because I wouldn't bet a nickel that you'll get data in a consistent forma

Dynamic Models for CSV Importing

2011-06-20 Thread Andre Terra
Hello, everyone. I'm trying to develop a web app to rid colleagues of mine of the "SAP -> Wordpad -> Excel -> Access -> Excel" workflow by offering them django instead. I'd like to allow them to upload csv-like text files to an app in our intranet that would load the data onto a temporary DB tabl