Using GeoIP with django on appengine

Question

I tried geodjango recently and worked fine for me without even installing this C library. But when I used the same project in appengine sdk it fails when it tries to import the GeoIP class then I looked at the differences, I downloaded the new appengine sdk + django 1.2, and the problem remains! I tried "python manage.py shell"

from django.contrib.gis import utils

utils.HAS_GEOIP #returns False(django in appengine)

but when I do the same in the django native application, the same line returns True what am I missing here?

Answer 1

The GeoIP class is a wrapper for the GeoIP API API. Unfortunately, you cannot use the C extensions in appengine, so you cannot use the GeoIP support that comes with Django.

pygeoip is a GeoIP library implemented in pure Python, you can try to integrate it.