On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> # Note that you can't use 'offset' without 'limit' (on some dbs), so
> this doesn't work:
> >>> Article.objects.all()[2:]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>     ...
> AssertionError: 'offset' is not allowed without 'limit'
> 
> 
> I want to get X last entries from a DB like in example above. How can
> I specify a "limit" - or what is the easiest way to get X last
> objects ? I'm using MySQL, and pre0.97

Order your queryset in the opposite order to what it would normally be
and then get the first X entries from that list. Soon there will be a
reverse() method on querysets to do this "order in the opposite
direction" for you, but for now, just do it manually.

Regards,
Malcolm

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