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NBajanca
NBajanca

Reputation: 3730

How to store singular dynamic values in a Django web application?

In Django when I want to store models like users, places and so on I may use an SQL database, but when I want to store a particular value (only one) I have no idea what to use.

So, I'm doing a website where there is some information that changes monthly. Giving one example:

<meta name="description" content="This team is in {{ ranking }} in the world ranking">

I'll need to change that value, ideally from Django Admin monthly and a Model with one object seems too much (not too much work but simply too much).

I started looking at NoSQL and from this question I'm inclined to use Redis or a similar key-value DB.

Is it the right approach or am I completely off track?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 136

Answers (2)

Sardorbek Imomaliev
Sardorbek Imomaliev

Reputation: 15400

I think for this case it better to use existing solutions like Constance - Dynamic Django settings. It is general solution for modifiable variables through django admin interface.

Here is list of similar apps https://djangopackages.org/grids/g/live-setting/

Upvotes: 1

damores
damores

Reputation: 2351

You could use python's shelve for a simple out-of-the-box solution for object persistence. It's easy to use:

with shelve.open('my_store') as my_store:
    my_store['ranking'] = 10

and then:

with shelve.open('my_store') as my_store:
    ranking = my_store['ranking']

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 2

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