Jacob: Great! I have played it safe with the getattr construct, figuring that the new object instance _might_ be constructed with an id attribute set to None prior to save().
On Jul 13, 2:46 pm, "Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks, that work more efficient that my way of do it, I was getting the > user from the database to see if the user exist. I like your solution, is > pretty clean and simple. Thanks a lot. > > On 7/13/07, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 7/13/07, JeffH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > if getattr(model_instance, 'id', None) is None: > > > model_instance.created_by = whatever > > > Also take a look at ``hasattr()``: > >http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html#l2h-35 > > > Jacob > > -- > Lic. José M. Rodriguez Bacallao > Cupet > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Todos somos muy ignorantes, lo que ocurre es que no todos ignoramos lo > mismo. > > Recuerda: El arca de Noe fue construida por aficionados, el titanic por > profesionales > ----------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---