cassandra_test.py

#<Keyspace Name="MapData">
#  <ColumnFamily CompareWith="BytesType" Name="Points"/>
#  <ColumnFamily CompareWith="LongType" Name="Lons"/>
#</Keyspace>

import struct
import binascii

from lazyboy import *
from lazyboy.key import Key

def _i64(n):
    return struct.pack('>q', n) # big endian = network order

# Define your cluster(s)
connection.add_pool('MapData', ['localhost:9160'])

class Lon(record.Record):
	_keyspace = "MapData"
	_column_family = "Lons"

class Point(record.Record):
	_keyspace = "MapData"
	_column_family = "Points"

data = {"lon": "5.0", "name":"test"}

p = Point()
p.set_key(key=data['name'])
p.update(data)
p.save()
print p.key, p

l = Lon()
l.set_key(key=_i64(7888))
l.update(data)

print "=" * 10
print l.is_modified()
print l.key
print l
l.save()