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63-4 Industrial Communication Systems
FIGURE 63.5
Web site of the server.
63.3.3 Setup Database
The database information is configured in the file setting.py. There are very detailed instructions
about each parameter in the file. In this example, let us fulfill the basic settings as follows:
DATABASE _ ENGINE = 'sqlite3'
DATABASE _ NAME = 'C:/paper _ system/sqlite3.db'
The first parameter indicates that SQLite database (included in the standard Python library) stores
all the information in a single file on the computer, while the second parameter specifies the location of
SQLite database file.
After the configuration of file setting.py, enter the command manage.py syncdb to create the
database and register a super-user for the auth system. See Figure 63.6.
63.3.4 Create Model
So far, a project has been set up. In the following, the document database is going to be built based on
the project. Notice that Django supports multiple applications, which means a project can have multiple
applications and an application can be in multiple projects.
By entering the command manage.py startapp documents, a directory named documents
is created with four files inside: __ init __ .py, models.py, tests.py, and views.py.
The file models.py is used to build the model. In this example, a Document model will be described
in documents/models.py file as
FIGURE 63.6
Database setup.
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