On 21 Jul 2006, at 17:55, Elver Loho wrote:
>> I wonder if you could be a bit more explicit here... I can't think of >> a single place where you "just set a variable and have it do >> something cool", so I'd like to know more about what scares you. > > The admin module? http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/ > tutorial2/ Is it the inner class that you found disturbing? class Poll(models.Model): # ... class Admin: pass If so, you should know that the actual admin framework itself is a completely separate application from the rest of Django - it was refactored out of the core nearly a year ago, and now lives in django.contrib. The model classes are a collection of useful metadata about the models, and the admin framework needs a bunch of metadata to decide how to behave. The (in my opinion very smart) decision was made to pull that out in to an inner class. This sets a nice precedence for extending Django's model syntax in the future - for example, I think there has been talk about having a 'class Search' inner class with parameters for controlling how a proposed Search contrib application should index models. There's no magic here - just a neat way of adding namespaced metadata to models without cluttering things up too much. Cheers, Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
