Malcolm, thanks for the reply and I figured that was my issue. Which leads me to another question, does everyone put all view code into views.py even though a simple generic view is all that's used?
THanks again John On Mar 5, 4:05 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 14:54 -0800, John M wrote: > > I'm having a strange problem with running django on a Cherrypy > > server. > > > in my views.py, I setup a variable called oneweekago, and set it to > > today() - (days=7) (it's obviously a date type variable), then in my > > query, I ask for all records that are __LTE=oneweekago. > > > This code works perfect the day I start my server, but the next day, > > if there are records that meet the criteria, it doesn't. Like the > > variable oneweekago is not getting recalculated. If I restart the > > server, it works great. > > > Here's the actual code in question: > > > oneweekago = datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=7) > > If all this indentation is correct (and the email has screwed things up > pretty badly here, so you might want to use dpaste next time -- and > switch to spaces instead of tabs for your Python code, which is pretty > normal), then this line is going to be a problem. It's evaluated once, > when the file is imported. If the file isn't imported again (which would > happen if the server didn't restart), the value won't change just > because the date did. > > You'd be better off doing that computation each time you need it (once > per function). It's hardly a huge timesink to do the computation. > > Regards, > Malcolm > = --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
