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cassandraengine/connection.py

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+#http://pypi.python.org/pypi/cql/1.0.4
+#http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/cassandra-dbapi2/
+
+import cql
+
+_keyspace = 'cse_test'
+_col_fam = 'colfam'
+
+conn = cql.connect('127.0.0.1', 9160)
+cur = conn.cursor()
+
+#cli examples here:
+#http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraCli
+cur.execute('create keyspace {};'.format(_keyspace))
+
+#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10871595/how-do-you-create-a-counter-columnfamily-with-cql3-in-cassandra
+cur.execute('create column family {};'.format(_col_fam))
+
+cur.execute('insert into colfam (obj_id, content) values (:obj_id, :content)', dict(obj_id=str(uuid.uuid4()), content='yo!'))