Nevermind. I should have searched a little more. I found this which explains it all: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#backward
I can't wait for my Django programming book to be delivered. On Jun 13, 2:24 pm, vhg119 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To clarify, is there a built in way of doing > > manName = "ford" > m = Manufacturer.objects.filter(name = manName)[0] > c = m.list_of_cars() > > rather than doing another search and filter through Cars? > > On Jun 13, 2:20 pm, vhg119 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Say I have these two models: > > > class Manufacturer(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField( maxlength=30) > > > class Car(models.Model): > > manufacturer = models.ForeignKey(Manufacturer) > > name = models.CharField( maxlength=30) > > > As you can see, a car is made by one manufacturer. One manufacturer > > makes many cars. > > > Is there a simpler way to get a list of cars made by a manufacturer > > given the manufacturer's name? > > > I've been doing: > > > manName = "ford" > > m = Manufacturer.objects.filter(name = manName)[0] > > c = Car.objects.filter(manufacturer = m.id) > > > Is there a better way of accomplishing this? > > > Vince --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
