On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, bkev <krban...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to check whether a field contains a certain value in a
> ManyToManyField in the admin on a custom save method? For example, I
> have a model like:
>
> class LastName(models.Model):
> lastname = models.CharField(...)
>
> class Person(models.Model):
> firstname = models.CharField(...)
> lastname = models.ManyToManyField(LastName,...)
> jumbledname = models.CharField(..., editable = False)
>
> def save(self):
> if self.lastname CONTAINS? 'Smith':
> self.jumbledname = u'%s%s' % ('self.firstname,
> self.lastname')
> else:
> self.jumbledname = self.firstname
> super(Person,self).save()
>
> Thanks,
> -bkev
> >
>
It all depends on what you're trying to do, in that example self.lastname is
just a normal python string, so you can do "Smith" in self.lastname, for
different datatypes it works slightly differently.
Alex
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