How does one load data into the local Development Server using Python?

Question

I know this is covered amply in the GAE help site. It's not working out for me. I'm a little green on Python. But I also know how imports work. The entities module is right there in the same folder with the loader. So what are the GAE scripts doing?

Here's my loader:

from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.tools import bulkloader
import entities

class CardLoader(bulkloader.Loader):
    def __init__(self):
        bulkloader.Loader.__init__(self, 'Card',
            [('english', str),
            ('translation', str)
            ])

loaders = [CardLoader]

Here is what is in a file called entities.py

from google.appengine.ext import db

class Card(db.Model):
    english = db.StringProperty(required=True)
    translation = db.StringProperty(required=True)

Here's a snip of what's in the .csv

"cardId","english","translation"
"3994","face","la cara"
"4027","art","el arte"

My version of Python:

Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Dec 23 2008, 15:10:54) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

Here's my command (on Windows):

python "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\appcfg.py" upload_data --config_file=card_loader.py --url http://localhost:8080/remote_api --filename=card_data.csv --kind=Card

Here's the output:

Uploading data records.
[INFO    ] Logging to bulkloader-log-20110723.183520
[INFO    ] Throttling transfers:
[INFO    ] Bandwidth: 250000 bytes/second
[INFO    ] HTTP connections: 8/second
[INFO    ] Entities inserted/fetched/modified: 20/second
[INFO    ] Batch Size: 10
Please enter login credentials for localhost:8080
Email: admin
Password for admin:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\appcfg.py", line 76, in <module
>
    run_file(__file__, globals())
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\appcfg.py", line 72, in run_fil
e
    execfile(script_path, globals_)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 3708, in <module>
    main(sys.argv)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 3699, in main
    result = AppCfgApp(argv).Run()
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 2345, in Run
    self.action(self)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 3484, in __call__
    return method()
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 3311, in PerformUpload
    run_fn(args)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\appcfg.p
y", line 3202, in RunBulkloader
    sys.exit(bulkloader.Run(arg_dict))
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\bulkload
er.py", line 4369, in Run
    return _PerformBulkload(arg_dict)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\bulkload
er.py", line 4180, in _PerformBulkload
    LoadConfig(config_file)
  File "c:\Program Files\Google\google_appengine\google\appengine\tools\bulkload
er.py", line 3844, in LoadConfig
    ('', 'r', imp.PY_SOURCE))
  File "card_loader.py", line 3, in <module>
    import entities
ImportError: No module named entities

moraes moraes · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-24T02:37:03

The traceback describes a ImportError: the module entities wasn't found. Is that where your models are? If so, you must be sure it can be found (add its directory to sys.path if needed).

How does one load data into the local Development Server using Python?

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