Simon Willison’s Weblog

South’s Design. Andrew Godwin explains why South resorts to parsing your models.py file in order to construct information about for creating automatic migrations.

# 13th May 2009, 12:30 pm / andrew-godwin, django, models, orm, parsing, python, south

django-mptt (via) Jonathan Buchanan’s simple utility for performing Modified Preorder Tree Traversal (efficient tree operations in SQL) on Django models.

# 29th December 2007, 11:33 am / django, djangoorm, jonathan-buchanan, models, modifiedpreordertreetraversal, mptt, python, sql

tranquil. Inspired take on the Django ORM to SQLAlchemy problem: lets you define your models with the Django ORM but use SQLAlchemy to run queries against them.

# 9th October 2007, 2:30 am / django, djangoorm, models, orm, python, sqlalchemy, tranquil