On Friday 27 January 2006 22:25, Joseph Kocherhans wrote:
> 1. Model.objects vs. Model.objects.all()
> (and also instance.sites vs. instance.sites.all()?)
+1 on Model.objects and instance.sites
> 2. len(q) vs. q.count()
Actually, can we get away with not having len(q)? If you try to use an
iterator in a template with {{ for foo in iterator_obj }} you get:
Exception Type: TypeError
Exception Value: len() of unsized object
You can kind of fix this, but what about using 'reversed'? That
definitely needs to do len(). (You could possibly special case Query
instances in the template code, by adding a .reversed() method which
inverts the order_by tuple ... but that's obviously evil)
In light of this, my earlier proposal was wrong. Instead it should be:
len(q) - retrieves the list, and does len() on it
bool(q) - retrieves the list, and does bool(len()) on it
q.count() - does a select count(*)
That actually makes more sense - the special method (count) does
something special, the Python builtins just force the data to be
fetched.
> 3. related_name for ForeignKey and ManyToManyField
> related_name defaults to OBJECT_set if not specified
+1
Luke
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