[socal-piggies] Seeks guidance: Python 2.7, XML, SQL, ...on GAE

[John Matthew]

Didn't google just add beta mysql?

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Michael Elkins <me at sigpipe.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:45:37PM -0800, Daniel Stewart wrote:
>
>> I'm currently stuck trying to parse the contents of a single RSS feed,
>> from an RDF Schema, iso-8859-1 encoded, XML document, at single known
>> URL, using the cElementTree module; To then store this parsed data, in
>> a single SQL database, via the MySQLdb library, at an initial rate of
>> 1x daily on, wait for it...
>>
>> Google App Engine (GAE).
>>
>
> You may want to investigate GAE's data store before you proceed.  You will
> not be able to use mysqldb, because GAE has it's own datastore with a
> different API.  I haven't looked at the state of open-source
> reimplementations (see the wiki link below), but one thing to consider is
> what you will do if you need to migrate off GAE in the future and not be
> locked in.
>
> http://code.google.com/**appengine/docs/python/**
> gettingstarted/usingdatastore.**html<http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/gettingstarted/usingdatastore.html>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Google_App_Engine#Portability_**concerns<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine#Portability_concerns>
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