I have insert a small cache mechanism. So pickle.loads() would only used for the first _get_value():
--------------------------------------------------------- class Preference(models.Model): def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): self._cache = {} super(Preference, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs) ... def _get_value(self): if "value" in self._cache: value = self._cache["value"] else: value = pickle.loads(self._value) self._cache["value"] = value return value def _set_value(self, value): self._cache["value"] = value self._value = pickle.dumps(value) _value = models.TextField() value = property(_get_value, _set_value) ... --------------------------------------------------------- -- Mfg. Jens Diemer ---- A django powered CMS: http://www.pylucid.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---