[web2py] reading from external db

2016-02-13 Thread Nico de Groot
You can use Web2py DAL to open the mySQL database. No need for separate library. See the Web2py book on DAL constructor. Make a (second) db connection, say db2, and retrieve the rows from db2 using select(). For the rest you're well on your way. Just need to update the standard db for each foun

[web2py] reading from external db

2016-02-12 Thread yarecki wr
I'm quite new to Python and web2py hence when I started a little project for displaying some stats on a website I quickly got to points where I just got stack. I'll describe one hopefully someone would help with and provide some explanations. Basically it work but for the moment mostly manual wh