Sample Django AppEngine App

[Mak]

I am completely new to Django. I am wondering if there is a sample
Django AppEngine application somewhere with explanation on how it is
setup?

[Gath]

Won't it be nice to start first by learning Django! From my experience
Django was not build to run on top of AppEngine. There are alot of
hacks on django to make run on AppEngine that might confuse a
beginner, e.g Django was built to run on relational databases, while
AppEngine applications run on bigtables(datastore) which are not
relational. So i guess it would be nice to first understand the django
ORM before trying to map it to the AppEngine one.

But having said that, i don't mean it is impossible to write one but i
won't advice that line for a beginner.

Have a look at this
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html

Gath

[Floh]

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Gath <pgat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Won't it be nice to start first by learning Django! From my experience
> Django was not build to run on top of AppEngine. There are alot of
> hacks on django to make run on AppEngine that might confuse a
> beginner, e.g Django was built to run on relational databases, while
> AppEngine applications run on bigtables(datastore) which are not
> relational. So i guess it would be nice to first understand the django
> ORM before trying to map it to the AppEngine one.
>
> But having said that, i don't mean it is impossible to write one but i
> won't advice that line for a beginner.
>

Of course, learning Django would be the best start.
But there is Django-nonrel ([0]), which adds support for
non-relational databases
to Django.
At the moment there are backends for AppEngine ([1]) and MongoDB.

Flo

[0]http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/django-nonrel
[1] http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/blog/django/2010/01/Native-Django-on-App-Engine

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[Mak]

Gath,

Yes, I'm reading up on Django, but I thought if I can learn Django by
hands-on a project that I would eventually be working, then that would
be a good start. Thanks for the link, it seems to be exactly what I
was looking for.

Mak

On Jul 2, 11:00 pm, Gath <pgath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Won't it be nice to start first by learning Django! From my experience
> Django was not build to run on top of AppEngine. There are alot of
> hacks on django to make run on AppEngine that might confuse a
> beginner, e.g Django was built to run on relational databases, while
> AppEngine applications run on bigtables(datastore) which are not
> relational. So i guess it would be nice to first understand the django
> ORM before trying to map it to the AppEngine one.
>
> But having said that, i don't mean it is impossible to write one but i
> won't advice that line for a beginner.
>

> Have a look at thishttp://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django.html