Thanks Russel, You've always been very helpful. :-) Now that I get the basic idea of how it works, I will get some resources on Python metaprogramming. It seems to be used heavily in Django ORM.
Kind Regards, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com > wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Joshua Partogi<joshua.part...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > This may seems trivial. I've been looking at django source code > > model/base.py and been looking around how django gives my model an > objects > > attribute but can not find it. I can see that the ModelBase will give the > > _default_manager attribute, but where and how does this objects attribute > > given? Can anybody give me a clue on which source file I should look > around > > for this? > > You're close to the mark, but you've missed a crucial detail - which > is understandable, because the detail is a little obscure. > > Towards the end of ModelBase.__new__ (the meta constructor) is a call > to _prepare(). This call to _prepare emits a "class_prepared" signal. > This signal fires the "ensure_default_manager" listener in > django.db.models.manager.py, which sets up the 'objects' object. > > As a side note, if you're poking around Django's internals to this > sort of level, it might be worth getting a copy of Marty Alchin's "Pro > Django". This book covers the internal mechanics of Django in a lot of > detail. > > -- http://blog.scrum8.com http://twitter.com/scrum8 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
