Cool. So I guess we have a doc bug against the queryset API reference.
Sim, if you're still reading this, and updating stuff in the database is what you were trying to do, then turn you computes collection of changes into a dictionary (if it isn't one already), "d" below, and do: User.objects.filter(id=11).update(**d) Bill On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Tom Evans <tevans...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Bill Freeman <ke1g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Actually, there would be a real advantage to doing update in the >> DB rather than instantiating the model, changing it, and saving it, >> since sql update is a single transaction. If that's what queryset >> update does, then the only issue with your version is that you >> needed two asterisks, passing "some_dictionary" as keyword >> arguments. (We know from the error message that update >> doesn't take any positional arguments beyond self, but it >> could take keyword arguments.) >> >> The trouble is that I don't see update as a documented queryset >> method at: >> >> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/models/querysets/#ref-models-querysets >> >> So I'd have to look at the code to see what it does. Also, if it's >> undocumented, it should probably be considered internal and >> subject to change. If you're seeing it documented somewhere, >> I'd appreciate a url. > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/db/queries/#topics-db-queries-update > > Cheers > > Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
