thanks a lot rajesh, i tried your suggestions but the same issue came up.
i have the feeling that invalid characters or something were being inserted into the sql table, that's the only thing i can think of when seeing all of the backslash output in the error message. anyway, i got a suggestion to try the svn version, which i did, and hey yep the error is gone. thanks for the time t On Jan 25, 7:08 pm, Rajesh Dhawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 12:55 pm, todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > class Image(models.Model): > > image = models.ImageField(upload_to='/PATH/site/files', > > blank=True, unique=True) > > I would suggest renaming the class Image to something else because the > Python Imaging Library provides a class by that same name and you want > to avoid any clashes between that and your class. > > > > > class Admin: pass > > > def __str__(self): > > return self.image > > > class Client(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(maxlength=255) > > street = models.CharField(maxlength=255) > > house_num = models.CharField(maxlength=4) > > house_level = models.CharField(maxlength=3, blank=True) > > tel_num = models.CharField(maxlength=19, blank=True) > > email = models.EmailField(blank=True) > > url = models.ForeignKey(Url, blank=True) > > image = models.ManyToManyField(Image, blank=True) > > This is just a convention but here I would suggest renaming this field > name to images since it's a many to many field. > > Lastly, you mentioned that you get a MySQL error on the image field in > Client. I suspect that when you changed that field from an ImageField > to an M2M field, you did not regenerate the model in your database. > When you change a model's structure like that then syncdb does not > automatically recreate your model with the changes. You either have to > make the corresponding database changes manual (using appropriate > ALTER TABLE statements) or if you are just developing and testing > things, reset your database. > > See the warning box > in:http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django-admin/#syncdb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
