Thanks guys. I appreciate the help. On Sep 29, 6:43 am, bruno desthuilliers <bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 sep, 12:31, Steve Holden <holden...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9/29/2010 5:25 AM, Daniel Roseman wrote: > > > You can use the get_all_field_names method in model._meta to get all > > > the actual fields, and set them on the duplicate: > > > > for field in foo._meta.get_all_field_names(): > > > setattr(spam, getattr(foo, field)) > > > I believe that last line should read > > > setattr(spam, field, getattr(foo, field)) > > Indeed. Note that you may not want to copy foo.pk (or at least not > under the same name) if there's more than one Spam created for each > Foo !-) > > <OP> > If your system actually creates a new Spam instance each time the > "certain action" is performed against Foo, you could as well create > the whole attributes dict and pass it to Spam.objects.create, ie: > > attribs = dict((fielname, getattr(foo, fieldname)) > for fieldname in foo._meta.get_all_field_names() > if fieldname is not 'id' # or whatever the pk name is > ) > > attribs.update( > foo=foo, > additional_attrib1='dead parrot', > additional_attrib2='Norwegian Blue' > ) > > spam = Spam.objects.create(**attribs) > > HTH
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