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How to Delete an Index in an AppEngine Datastore

If using Python, you can delete an index by first removing the entry in your index.yaml file, and then updating your site. Then you must issue this command: appcfg.py vacuum_indexes myapp/ With Django (what I am using), you use this command: manage.py vacuum_indexes What is nice about the process is that, for each index that […]

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Google AppEngine: appcfg.py update check failed

I started getting this error in Windows when running ‘manage runserver’ in django on Google AppEngine: appcfg.py update check failed: EOF occurred in violation of protocol This error is related to not having the SSL module for python installed. The easy fix is to install it by running “easy_install ssl” from the command prompt. However, […]

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