On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, nixon66 <nixon....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> eleom,
>
> Thanks for the catch with country county in my model.
>
> On Feb 20, 2:22 pm, eleom <eliseomar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, as the error message says, you must pass a County instance in
> > the argument 'county'. Now you are passing the name of the county, not
> > the county itself. So, your last line should be
> >
> > l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G corp',
> > city = 'Walla Walla', county=c, dollar_amount =54000)
> >
> > instead of
> >
> > l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G corp',
> > city = 'Walla Walla', county='blah blah', dollar_amount =54000)
> >
> > where c is the County object defined before.
> >
> > P.S. By the way, you mix 'County' and 'Country' in your example.
> >
> > On Feb 20, 8:06 pm, nixon66 <nixon....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If this is the wrong list to post a newbie question please let me
> > > know. I'm getting an error message while trying to populate the tables
> > > created by the models and not sure why. Here are the models
> >
> > > from django.db import models
> >
> > > class County(models.Model):
> > > name = models.CharField(max_length=80)
> > > slug = models.CharField(max_length=80)
> >
> > > def __unicode__(self):
> > > return self.name
> >
> > > def get_absolute_url(self):
> > > return "/countries/%s/" % self.slug
> >
> > > class Company(models.Model):
> > > name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> > > address = models.CharField(max_length=80)
> > > client = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> > > city = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> > > county = models.ForeignKey(Country)
> > > dollar_amount = models.DecimalField('Cost (in dollars)',
> > > max_digits=10, decimal_places=2)
> >
> > > def __unicode__(self):
> > > return self.name
> >
> > > So I go into the shell and type this:
> >
> > > >>c=County(name='blah blah, slug="blah-blah")
> >
> > > then
> >
> > > >> l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G
> corp', city = 'Walla Walla', county='blah blah', dollar_amount =54000)
> >
> > > The error message I get is Valueerror: Cannot assign "blah blah" :
> > > "Company.county" must be a "County" instance.
> >
> > > doesn't this create the instance?
> > > >> c=County('blah blah', slug='blah-blah')
> >
> > > Any suggestion or point out my error would be appreciated.
> >
>
If you create a country in the admin the county field will display as a drop
down where you can select the correct county, and have a link where you can
create another one if it doesn't exist yet.
Alex
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