either way, the database is hit to check that. so if your goal is to minimize, getting true and false instead of the record has no advantage. just check if there is something returned.
On Jun 19, 10:14 am, timc3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a situation where I want a true or false to whether an object > is in a manytomany. > > For instance, I have my users, and have created (separate to the > standard django groups) a groups table called GroupsOfUser with a > relationships defined as: > > group_members = models.ManyToManyField(User, verbose_name="group > members", related_name="groupofumembers") > > I know that I can do something like this: > > instance = get_object_or_404(GroupsOfUser, id=form["groupid"]) > auth_user = request.user > > ismember = auth_user.groupofumembers.filter(id = instance.id) > > And this would bring back ismember either populated with a > GroupsOfUser object, but all I want is a true or false to whether they > are in this group already. Is there an easy way of doing this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
