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Debugging Jinja2 templates in Google App Engine

Janusz Skonieczny 24 stycznia, 2014 24 stycznia, 2014 Google App Engine itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

Jinja2 needs some python modules that are forbidden in the python sandbox provided by Google App Engine. Fortunately its fairly easy to white list them in the SDK local development server — currently there is no workaround for production. PRODUCTION = not os.environ.get(’SERVER_SOFTWARE’, ”).startswith(’Dev’) if not PRODUCTION: # enable jinja2 …

Removing Models from Google App Engine at minimum cost

Janusz Skonieczny 14 lipca, 2012 14 lipca, 2012 Development itemprop="discussionURL"Leave a comment

There come times when data schema changes so you’ll have to remove some models by the bunch. AFAIK there is no currently a „TRUNCATE TABLE MyKind” or „DROP TABLE MyKind” equivalent in Google App Engine data store, so you’ll have to write an ordinary request handler to do the bidding or use MapReduce. …