Hi,
I've recently come across something that's stumped me. I am creating a 'shortcut' function for easier creation of add/edit views. This function needs to make a query on a model in the simple form: model.objects.get(field_name=value) where the variables "model", "field_name", and "value" are passed to the function at runtime rather than hard-coded. This would be fine if I knew that field_name was the primary key, as I could just use (pk=value). Problem is, I'm not (necessarily) working with a primary key, and I obviously can't pass field_name, which is a string, as a the name of a keyword argument. So I would like to do something like the following: def genericView(model, identifier_field, identifier_value): model.objects.get(identifierfield, identifier_value) [...] But to the best of my knowledge get() doesn't accept positional arguments in such a way, and I can't find a likely method elsewhere that might do what I want. So: 1. Do I have a mental block/am I being amazingly stupid? or, 2. is there indeed a method to do what I want?, or 3. do I have to fall back to SQL? Thanks in advance, James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
