Re: Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

@Jacob Thanks for all the links. I appreciate your reply. Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote: > There are many, and we've discussed this issue at length any number of > times over the years. Please take the time to read over the history > here; if you've got something new to add to the discussion I'd love to >

Re: Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:11 PM, orokusaki wrote: > Well, I won't even try to argue with that, but there has to be a way > to conquer problems like this in Django without editing the source > code, don't you think? There are many, and we've discussed this issue at

Re: Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

@James Well, I won't even try to argue with that, but there has to be a way to conquer problems like this in Django without editing the source code, don't you think? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group,

Re: Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, orokusaki wrote: > 1) Allow for subclasses of normal models to override attributes of the > parent model. Then, if any attributes exists that override the parent, > simply use the subclass to create the table and treat the parent as an >

Inheritance: Create a way to subclass and override attributes of a parent class.

Problem that exists: 1) I need to subclass `contrib.auth.User` and strip some of the elements from it, like making `User.username` non-unique for SAAS with multiple accounts (`MyCustomUser.username` would only be `unique_together = ('account', 'username')` (other instances could occur but I