On 1/25/06, Joseph Kocherhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Jason Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Joseph Kocherhans wrote:
> >
> > > At any rate, Managers and ManyToMany/OneToMany attributes do extremely
> > > similar things, and I think they could share an api and maybe even
> > > share most implementation. If managers behaved like object attributes,
> > > this is what I'm worried about:
> > >
> > > MyModel.objects.filter(creator__exact=5)
> > > for obj in MyModel.objects:
> > > print obj
> >
> > I was under the impression that you'd do something like:
> >
> > for obj in MyModel.objects.filter(creator__exact=5):
> > print obj
>
> If this were the case then it would be impossible to combine filter
> and order_by, at least in this way:
>
> MyModel.objects.filter(creator__exact=5)
> MyModel.objects.order_by('status')
> for obj in MyModel.objects:
> print obj
>
> For that code it seems like MyModel.objects should be a lazy
> collection containing objects with creator=5 and ordered by status,
> but in this case you would get an error because MyModel.objects
> wouldn't support iteration.
Oops... MyModel.object would return an unfiltered/unordered lazy
collection. My mistake.
Joseph
