Request Signals

2009-03-08 Thread PB
Hi, I've been looking at ways to add more dynamic logging to my applications and naturally looked to the django signals as a way to do it. I'm unsure of the logic behind the request handler class being returned in the request_finished and request_started signals, rather than the actual instance.

Re: Model Inheritance

2009-01-27 Thread PB
Malcolm, Tracy Thankyou both for the feedback - it seems I'm coming from a very common position, and I think it mainly stems from my misunderstanding of the aims of the ORM, of which the tradeoffs you have helped explain. >Slight underestimation of the effort that went into the feature, >there.

Re: Model Inheritance

2009-01-25 Thread PB
Ah, thanks for the link - I'd done a little searching but I guess I missed that one. Karen Tracey wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 12:51 PM, PB wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've been experimenting with model inheritance and have become pretty > >

Model Inheritance

2009-01-25 Thread PB
Hi, I've been experimenting with model inheritance and have become pretty dissatisfied with the way it is implemented in Django. It seems that this part of the ORM has not received as much TLC and thought as the rest of the framework. Some gripes: - There is no way to find out whether an object