Introducing django-ae-utils

Recently I’ve started to play around with using Django on Google’s new App Engine.  As mentioned by many others at this point, Django technically runs on App Engine but there are significant parts which do not.  Accordingly I’ve started to write some code to replace or supplement the holes left in Django by App Engine.  Since I figure this code may be of use to others I’ve released it as an open-source project called django-ae-utils (github mirror coming soon).

At the moment django-ae-utils contains just a Django session engine which uses the Google Datastore API as a back-end but over time as I find more needs I’ll add more code.  Additionally over the next few weeks as I work on django-ae-utils and my Django/App Engine project I’ll be making a series of posts about running Django on App Engine.  Check back soon for more info.

As as side note I realize that there is a similar project called Google App Engine Helper for Django run by some of the guys over at Google.  For the time being I am simply putting out this code that I find useful.  Eventually it may make sense to contribute some of the code from django-ae-utils to the Google App Engine Helper project but for now the code is simply what it is.

~ by seanoc on April 21, 2008.