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Made grammar changes to the Tutorial.

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Matthew Rankin 2010-12-30 09:00:56 -06:00
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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Step 3: Creating The Database
Flaskr is a database powered application as outlined earlier, and more
precisely, an application powered by a relational database system. Such
systems need a schema that tells them how to store that information. So
before starting the server for the first time it's important to create
before starting the server for the first time, it's important to create
that schema.
Such a schema can be created by piping the `schema.sql` file into the
@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ Such a schema can be created by piping the `schema.sql` file into the
sqlite3 /tmp/flaskr.db < schema.sql
The downside of this is that it requires the sqlite3 command to be
installed which is not necessarily the case on every system. Also one has
to provide the path to the database there which leaves some place for
errors. It's a good idea to add a function that initializes the database
for you to the application.
installed, which is not necessarily the case on every system. Also, one has
to provide the path to the database which leaves some place for
errors. It's a good idea to add a function to the application that
initializes the database for you.
If you want to do that, you first have to import the
:func:`contextlib.closing` function from the contextlib package. If you
want to use Python 2.5 it's also necessary to enable the `with` statement
first (`__future__` imports must be the very first import)::
want to use Python 2.5, it's also necessary to enable the `with` statement
(`__future__` imports must be the very first import)::
from __future__ import with_statement
from contextlib import closing
@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ execute a complete script. Finally we only have to commit the changes.
SQLite 3 and other transactional databases will not commit unless you
explicitly tell it to.
Now it is possible to create a database by starting up a Python shell and
importing and calling that function::
Now it is possible to create a database by importing and calling that function
from within a Python shell::
>>> from flaskr import init_db
>>> init_db()