Whitout -M web2py DAL does not know which tables exist and must be
exported/imported.
On Nov 15, 9:39 pm, mart <msenecal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> quick question... I think i would like to run this script (export
> mssql db to cvs) with dal stand alone... since this ia production
> server I would want to run it as simple scheduled executable - just
> the script sitting on the gluon folder. Am I still able to force the
> script to look at the the module with the -M ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mart :)
>
> On Nov 15, 6:17 pm, mart <msenecal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ah,.... no, I was not using that, but will give it a go now :) thanks
> > for that :)
>
> > Here is something that I would like to understand and possibly fix
> > (and maybe those cmd switches will fix it
> > ?) While I was able to connect to the mssql db locally, doing
> > db.tables returned an empty list... But, i could see the tables, etc,
> > using something like razor... Could it be because of the state of the
> > DB? its sitting on SQL server 2005, and I can almost guarantee that it
> > was never maintained (at least don't see any evidence of that)... or
> > maybe, that should not matter?
>
> > Thanks
>
> > Mart :)
>
> > On Nov 15, 10:14 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > This is the correct syntax.
>
> > > db.export_to_csv_file(open('somefile.csv', 'wb'))
>
> > > the problem is that db.does not see the models. Are you using?
>
> > > python -S app -M -N -R yourscript.py
>
> > > On Nov 15, 12:39 am, mart <msenecal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > Since connecting remotely is an issue for now, I went to the server
> > > > hosting the MSSQL DB.
>
> > > > I am cinnecting fine (to localhost), but this cmd :
>
> > > > db.export_to_csv_file('quickbuild.csv')
>
> > > > is getting this error:
>
> > > > File "C:\Documents and Settings\buildmonkey\Desktop\blue_framework
> > > > copy\src\mssql_test.py", line 33, in main
> > > > db.export_to_csv_file('quickbuild.csv')
> > > > ...
> > > > dal.py", line 2193, in export_to_csv_file
> > > > ofile.write('END')
> > > > AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'
>
> > > > I did not get an error when doing verbatim what the book says:
>
> > > > db.export_to_csv_file(open('somefile.csv', 'wb'))
>
> > > > but this only yielded one word in the target file, 'END'
>
> > > > Any idea what I should be looking at?
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mart :)
>
>
