Tag: snippet

Django: Querying data from the Python shell

I needed to get some stats for some research that we’re doing and was happy to see that you can use Django and the python shell to query testament data in a way that’s database independent.  It’s a little unintuitive if you’re thinking in SQL mode, but it is usable and super-helpful.  I wanted to share it with ya’ll in case you needed to quickly pull stats or examine info.

Helpful reference Django docs:

  • http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/queries/#making-queries
  • http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets/#queryset-api-reference

Print the prison name, city, and state of all prisons that received a package sent by the Midwest Pages to Prisones Project from 2009-01-01 to 2009-03-22

geoff@btp:/var/www/testament/testament_trunk/btp$ python manage.py shell
>>> import datetime
>>> from core.models import Prison, Package
>>> start_date = datetime.date(2009, 1, 1)
>>> end_date = datetime.date(2009, 3, 22)
>>> prisons = Prison.objects.filter(package__sent_on__range=(start_date, end_date), package__group__username__exact='mwpp').distinct()
>>> for prison in prisons:
>>>    print "%s %s, %s" % (prison.name, prison.city, prison.state)

Drupal and content purgatory

Let’s jut say you’re migrating content from a static site to a Drupal-based site.  Let’s say that you don’t want to migrate the content all at once and want to roll out the new Drupal-based site ASAP and migrate content as you’re able to.  One thing that you could do is to make your old site static.mysite.com and your new Drupal-based site mysite.com.  Then use the Custom Error module and this snippet to automatically redirect to content on the old static site.  If the content isn’t in either place, they’ll get a 404 from the webserver of the static site.