Thanks Mike ! That was a really helpful page that I missed in Doc. In this particular case 1 solves 2.
Dilan On Mar 27, 10:09 pm, Mike Ramirez <gufym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, March 27, 2011 02:32:15 pm Dilan wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > I'm working on a model similar to > >http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/topics/db/models/#extra-fields-o... > > -to-many-relationships . > > > Say, I need to add the field, groups = models.ManyToManyField(Group, > > through='Membership') to Person class > > > Two questions: > > 1. In Django, is this allowed? > > Yes. But you'll want to have a unique related_name also, iirc. > > > 2. In Python, how do you forward declare Group class for this code to > > work? > > This isn't really a python way but a django way [1] > > ManyToManyField('Group', ...) > > In python you can't forward declare outside of the module the object is in. > there is no equivalent to Class Test; as in c++. (you can dynamically import > with the imp module though but this isn't forward declaring). > > Django models load in such a way that it doesn't know modules that come after > it in the same module/file and this was to address that. > > scroll down just a tad on the link below to get info on the related_name > attribute. > > HTH, > > Mike > > [1]http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/ref/models/fields/#lazy-relation... > -- > Adults die young. -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
