Saving a Profile

Saving a Profile

When you save() your Profile, the current or specified name will be used to create or update a save file in the location specified by local

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Profile.save(name=None, alert=True)[source]View on GitHub

Pickles and saves the Profile using the specified or currently set name.

Parameters

  • name (Optional[str]) – name to save the Profile under; replaces the current name

  • alert (bool) – set to True to print a message upon successful save

Return type

bool

InstaTweet.profile.Profile.local =True

Indicates if saves should be made locally (True) or on a remote database (False)

Return type

bool

  • Local saves are made to the LOCAL_DIR, as pickle files

  • Remote saves are made to a database (via the db module) as pickle bytes

Important!!

You MUST configure the DATABASE_URL environment variable to save/load remotely

InstaTweet uses SQLAlchemy to create a DBConnection

  • Any SQLAlchemy-supported database is therefore also supported by InstaTweet

  • See the db module for more information