While it may be the long way around, can you not do the following?
a = Articles.objects.all()[:3]
a.reverse()

That would probably be my solution.

  -justin


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:36 PM, web-junkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> what is the new reverse() method good for? Seems it just swaps the
> order_by statement?
> I would appreciate a reverse() method that, if used after slicing,
> would actually reverse the queryset.
> In the docs it's said: "Django doesn't support that mode of access
> (slicing from the end), because it's not possible to do it efficiently
> in SQL."
> That is nonsense, because reverse should not slice from anywhere, it
> should just reverse, and you can do that in python.
> So when I have Articles.objects.all()[:3] which gives me a,b,c,
> Articles.objects.all()[:3].reverse() would make c,b,a out of it, not
> z,y,x! Or am I missing something?
> >
>


-- 
Justin Lilly
Web Developer/Designer
http://justinlilly.com

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