On 6/16/06, Adrian Holovaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/16/06, Sam Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for my initial question I apologize for the confusion, I didn't > > mean to use the generic views as described in the Django tutorials. I > > want to be able to make some functions generic. Please let me give you > > an example: http://paste.e-scribe.com/423/ > > > > As you can see both functions are identical except for the database > > table names and field names. Is it possible to write only one function > > instead? > > Hi Sam, > > Yes, you certainly can do that. Just make a function that takes the > model module and field name as extra parameters, to construct the > query dynamically. Here is a simplified example: > > def dynamic_get_dict(u, model_module, lookup): > return model_module.get_list(lookup=u) > > Python is cool! >
Wow! I didn't know it would be that simple! What about convenience functions, get_relatedobjectname()? Can 'relatedobjectname' be a field name passed as a parameter? Thanks again! Regards, Sam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
