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This is a fairly simple look at how to use Yahoo's BOSS Mashup Framework with Django. In the tutorial we create a simple news search.

You are responding to this comment written by wayne on July 11th 2008, 19:39.

btw, no need to strip the prefix field names out (before the "$")

the "name" parameter is optional (useful for joining)

>>> from yos.boss import ysearch
>>> from yos.yql import db
>>> d = db.create(data=ysearch.search("google"))
>>> d.describe()
TABLENAME: , # RECORDS: 10
        OUTER KEY: dispurl
        OUTER KEY: title
        OUTER KEY: url
        OUTER KEY: abstract
        OUTER KEY: clickurl
        OUTER KEY: date
        OUTER KEY: size
>>> d.rows

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