I don't think this is possible to do generally. What would count__gt=1 or
pub_date__month=12 do?
On Friday, June 6, 2014 3:50:08 PM UTC-6, Patrick Bregman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> First of, I'm new to this list so please tell me if there's something that
> can be done better. It's the best way to learn for me ;)
>
> Recently I've been doing some reworking of an old (think Django 1.1 or
> 1.2) webapp of mine into the latest and greatest of Django. In the process
> I modified some models, and thought that *get_or_create* would be perfect
> to replace boring try / except cases. Except that it didn't really work as
> planned. I tried to do a *get_or_create(name__iexact=value,
> defaults={'slug': slugify(value)})*. I expected this to be smart enough
> to know that it should fill the field *name* based on the *name__iexact*
> parameter. Apparently it isn't :) In this case you'd need to add a
> definition for *name* to the *defaults* dict to get the value into the
> newly created model. I'm not sure, but I personally think this shouldn't be
> that hard to fix. It's basically checking (and removing) known field
> lookups or simply everything after a double underscore, and using that as a
> field name. Or at least, that's my view on it.
>
> The big question is:
> 1. Is this behavior that exotic that I'm the first one to notice, or did I
> do a wrong search on Google?
> 2. Would this indeed be as easy (or comparably easy) as I think?
> 3. Is this behavior we actually want in Django?
>
> If the answer to 2 and 3 are yes, I'll look into giving it a try to making
> a patch for this myself.
>
> Regards,
> Patrick Bregman
>
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