From some time I was wondering how to visualize presence of deputies on sessions in lower house of the Polish parliament. I was also fascinated of Zbigniew Braniecki’s work, but because of small activity in project I started thinking about something similar developed on my own. I don’t know well python either django. So from beginning, step by step I’m going to document my journey through it’s world.
Installing django on Windows
I found interesting project having all I need. Instant Django contains Python, django and additional utilities like Notepad++, Mercurial, WinMerge and Sqlite. All bundled in one executable. When ran it unpacks it’s content to selected directory. To start playing with python, just fire start.bat and windows-shell came upon with modified PATH variable containing links to python and django specified folders.
Setting up project
To create django project execute command
django-admin startproject govstats
First argument is command to execute, second is parameter passing to it. In this case we want to startproject named govstats. After project is created we need to change it’s setting in govstats/setting.py file.
First modify section DATABASE to contain information about sqlite3 engine and path to database file. I also changed timezone and language code for Polish and enabled admin and admin-docs sites.
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': 'govstats.db',
'USER': '',
'PASSWORD': '',
'HOST': '',
'PORT': '',
}
}
TIME_ZONE = 'Europe/Warsaw'
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'pl-pl'
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.admindocs',
)
To enable connecting to admin and admin-docs sites we also need to modify govstats/urls.py file:
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()
urlpatterns = patterns('',
# Example:
# (r'^govstats/', include('govstats.foo.urls')),
(r'^admin/doc/', include('django.contrib.admindocs.urls')),
(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
When we set up those files we can create database file using command, executing in govstats directory:
python.exe manage.py syncdb
Testing project
To check our site we can run django integrated web server executing command below and visit http://localhost:80/admin address.
python.exe manage.py runserver :80
That’s all for now. Stay tuned!
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