Re: Is Django easy to learn and use for my web project?

I've only been using django for a few weeks. I had NO prior Python experience. I've been cracking a couple of hours a day on a site that aggregates RSS feeds and I've already got it working nicely. I've played with PHP and Rails before, and django feels to me like it's the easiest to use. I'm amaz

Re: Is it bad to rely on db exceptions?

d is: it will stop working when > you switch > to an other database backend. > but aside from that: what are you trying to archive? > looks a lot like what the get_or_create() shortcut does... > > On Jun 13, 8:42 am, koepked wrote: > > > Is it bad practice to rely on

Is it bad to rely on db exceptions?

Is it bad practice to rely on db exceptions to indicate an attempt at writing duplicate values to a "keyed" column? For example, in some code I'm working on, I have the following: x = ContentItem(title=e_title) try: x.save() except MySQLError: x = ContentItem.objects.get(title=e_title)