PIBlog

Much to my surprise, my last post generated more traffic in a single day than my blog has ever gotten in a single month. Apparently people are quite interested in making web applications with Python. I’ve started on part two, but since so many people showed interest I want to spend more time on it than I spent on the last one. So instead, you get this post.

So I’ve been fiddling around with CouchDB lately. Since it’s common to store tree-based data, and it’s kind of a pain to do so in your standard relational DB, I thought it would be a good exercise to see how hard it is to store hierarchical data in CouchDB.

Turns out it’s pretty easy.

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