On Sat, 2008-08-30 at 06:56 -0700, eniac wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using django 0.96.1 on ubuntu.
> I'm going to describe the steps I went through until I encountered
> something odd.
>
> I create a model:
>
> class shoutbox(models.Model):
> name = models.CharField(maxlength=15)
> shout = models.CharField(maxlength=256)
> pub_date = models.DateTimeField()
>
> Next I sync with my database which is mysql using manage.py syncdb.
>
>
> Then I enter the manage.py shell to test it out
>
> In [1]: from thisSite.shoutbox.models import shoutbox
> In [4]: s = shoutbox('jonas', 'bla enzo', datetime.now())
>
> untill here everhting works fine
> then I want to check on the id of s and here is what it returns
> In [5]: s.id
> Out[5]: 'jonas'
>
> so I add an other param, like 1 and it works fine, seems like none
> doesn't get accepted.
> What should I do ? Is this a bug ? Did I do something wrong ? I don't
> want to hardcode every id when I enter some new data to my tables.
It's not a bug. You are assuming that you can pass position arguments to
your model (which would be true if the only arguments taken by __init__
were the fields you declared). This isn't true, since are some implicit
fields created by Django: for example, the automatic primary key field
"id". That's why none of the examples in the documentation use
positional arguments.
So you should always use keyword arguments when initialising a model:
shoutbox(name='jonas', shout='...', pub_date='...')
or
data = {'name': 'jonas', 'shout': '...', 'pub_date': '...'}
s = shoutbox(**data)
Regards,
Malcolm
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