On Sunday, March 27, 2011 02:32:15 pm Dilan wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm working on a model similar to > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/db/models/#extra-fields-on-many > -to-many-relationships . > > Say, I need to add the field, groups = models.ManyToManyField(Group, > through='Membership') to Person class > > Two questions: > 1. In Django, is this allowed?
Yes. But you'll want to have a unique related_name also, iirc. > 2. In Python, how do you forward declare Group class for this code to > work? > This isn't really a python way but a django way [1] ManyToManyField('Group', ...) In python you can't forward declare outside of the module the object is in. there is no equivalent to Class Test; as in c++. (you can dynamically import with the imp module though but this isn't forward declaring). Django models load in such a way that it doesn't know modules that come after it in the same module/file and this was to address that. scroll down just a tad on the link below to get info on the related_name attribute. HTH, Mike [1] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/fields/#lazy-relationships -- Adults die young. -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.