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Workflows (States) in Django

I'm going to cover a simple, but effective, utility for managing state and transitions (aka workflow). We often need to store the state (status) of a model and it should only be in one state at a time.

Common Software Uses

• Publishing (Draft->Approved->Published->Expired->Deleted)

opie4624

#!/usr/bin/env python
#

# import modules used here -- sys is a very standard one
import sys, argparse, logging

# Gather our code in a main() function
def main(args, loglevel):
  logging.basicConfig(format="%(levelname)s: %(message)s", level=loglevel)
  

katylava

#!/usr/bin/env python

import re
from subprocess import call

def load_csv_psql(db, infile, table, tmpdir='/tmp'):
    tmpfile = '%s/%s' % (tmpdir, infile)
    call(['cp', infile, tmpfile])

    columns = map(variablize, file(infile).readline().split(','))