Comments on Just a little Python: Declarative Schemas for MongoDB in Python using Ming

Hi Nico, Thanks for the comment! I believe that t...

2012-12-10T13:42:08.959-05:00

Hi Nico,

Thanks for the comment! I believe that the MongoDB-Ming package may be out of date -- I don't know who's responsible for doing that packaging work. The most up-to-date version of Ming is always available from sf.net/p/merciless

-Rick

In my first experiments with Ming I ran into two p...

2012-12-10T07:15:37.730-05:00

In my first experiments with Ming I ran into two problems. The first one was a conflict with another Python package called Ming, which is used to generate SWF files. I installed this with apt-get on my Ubuntu-based system thinking I was installing the Ming discussed here.

After uninstalling SWF-Ming, and installing the MongoDB-Ming I got an error on the line

from pymongo.son import SON

in session.py. When I replaced this with

from bson.son import SON

I could continue my first test. Is there some version dependency between Ming and the Python driver for MongoDB?

There are actually a few other attributes besides ...

2012-06-20T10:42:42.926-04:00

There are actually a few other attributes besides `m` that we might want to consider moving into the manager: from_bson, make, make_safe. I remembered make, since it tripped me up once and is documented at http://merciless.sourceforge.net/tour.html#using-ming-objects-to-represent-mongo-records. Found the rest via `set(dir(WikiPage))-set(dir(dict))`