Hi, try doing this: c = Customer(**customerdict).save()
-- Scott On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an object called customer that I trying to initialize from a > large XML parse. I parse the XML into a dictionary into something > like > > customerdict = {'first_name' : 'mike', 'last_name' : 'c', 'etc' : > 'etc' } and so forth > > then I try to do c = Customer(customerdict).save() > > I get a "Can't Adapt" error. > > However, if I manually pass in each variable like so: > > c = Customer(first_name = customerdict['first_name'], last_name = > customerdict['last_name']).save() > > it works fine. > > Passing in each variable would be a huge PITA plus any changes to the > model would require changes in multiple places while parsing and > passing the dictionary wouldn't require any changes. What am I doing > wrong? > > > > -- http://scott.andstuff.org/ | http://truthadorned.org/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---