Thank you Malcolm, you were exactly right! I would have never thought of that, but I have a custom save method and when I commented it out and restarted the app, setting the active property worked just as expected. Now I just have to figure out what the hell is wrong with my save method... :-)
Thank you! ~Karen On Aug 24, 8:31 pm, Malcolm Box <[email protected]> wrote: > Instead of counting the inactive, try counting the active ones. If that > count doesn't go up by one, I'd suspect something's dodgy in your Entry > model's save() that means it doesn't write successfully to the db. > > You could debug by doing: > > from django.db import connection > connection.queries > e1.save() > connection.queries > > to see what the SQL generated was. > > Then start looking at your database to see what it's doing. > > Malcolm > > On 23 August 2011 23:08, Karen McNeil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > No, that's not the problem. Even if I redo the query now, I still get > > the same count (see below). And, like I said, the change does not show > > up in the admin either -- THE VALUE HAS NOT BEEN CHANGED. > > > This behavior is so unexpected I'm not sure how to even begin trouble- > > shooting it. > > > ~Karen > > > PS -- What's wrong with querying by "active=0"? I did it that way > > because that's what the admin interface does for filters... is there > > any difference? > > > NEW SHELL SESSION FROM TODAY, TESTING SAME THING: > > > >>> from dictionary.models import Entry > > >>> entries = Entry.objects.filter(active=False) > > >>> entries.count() > > 3642 > > >>> e1 = entries[0] > > >>> e1 > > <Entry: إبّاخ> > > >>> e1.active > > False > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > 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. > > -- > Malcolm Box > [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
