On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:50 -0800, Ivan Illarionov wrote: > > One of the other things planned as part of qs-rf is the ability to use > > custom queries to initialize models -- something like > > ``Model.objects.custom_query("SELECT ...")`` > That's not enough - I need this feature to initialize models from the > result of stored procedures, not just simple queries. One may also > want to initialize their models from some external source like XML > file, RSS feed or anything - there should be a way to do it easily.
Supporting every single conceivable way to create an instance out of the box isn't really a good goal: the overhead that everybody ends up paying to support the fringe cases is unfair. The phrase you're after for those remaining cases is "custom __init__ method". Malcolm -- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@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-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---