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"Simon Willison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
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> On 6 Dec 2005, at 21:00, Adrian Holovaty wrote:
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>> Thoughts?
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>> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/RemovingTheMagic
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> I really like almost all of it. My one hang-up is this:
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> Person.objects.get_list(Person.q.first_name == 'Adrian')
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> I like the Person.objects bit, but I'm not so keen on
> Person.q.first_name - it's pretty verbose.
Exactly my feelings after reading the document. I liked almost everything
but was snagged a little but by Person.q.
> How about supporting an SQL where clause, as seen in Rails?
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> Person.objects.get_where('first_name = %s and last_name = %s', 'Adrian',
> 'Holovaty')
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> Escaping would have to be handled in a backend dependant way, but this
> would solve a lot of our ugly syntax problems. We could keep the old
> method around for cases where database independent SQL generation is
> needed.
It looks like a good addition. Obviously it can be abused beyond debugging
;-), but in simple cases (e.g., logical expressions) it is simple and
expressive.
Thanks,
Eugene
