http://theories.darwinsys.com:80/categories/python/ Call it a Blog if you like -- Ian en Ian Darwin Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:23:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://theories.darwinsys.com:80/2008/10/04/1223136720000.html I've been playing a bit with <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/">Django</a>, a <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard &quot;how to I make model classes from my existing database tables&quot;? That's not because you can't do this, but only because most of the newb tutorials start from the other end. It turns out that you can do this easily using &quot;<a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#inspectdb">manage.py inspectdb</a>&quot;. And you're done, at least most of your work is done. This reverse engineering is not as complete as that in <a href="http://www.seamframework.org/">Seam</a> (actually Hibernate) - no compound primary keys, and (presumably because Python's db support is less general than Java's JDBC) it only works on a few databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Server, IIRC), but for those database it does the bulk of the work for you.<br /> <br /> So, this post is a bit away from my usual topics. I admit it, I'm mainly posting this here in hopes that somebody else using a web search will find the answer more quickly. Java Python Web http://theories.darwinsys.com:80/2008/10/04/1223136720000.html#comments http://theories.darwinsys.com:80/2008/10/04/1223136720000.html Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:12:00 GMT