you are right! lol, trapped myself nicely ... happens when you dont think :-)
thx wolfram On Dec 4, 2007 3:57 PM, Luke Plant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 14:41:07 Wolfram Kriesing wrote: > > another thing i jsut ran into: > > > > this causes an IndexError > > Model.objects.filter(something)[0] > > you have to add the colon before the 0 > > Model.objects.filter(something)[:0] > > the limit(0) would not bring this error, it would not let > > first-time-users run into this problem > > I'm not sure why [:0], would ever be useful -- it always returns an > empty list, right? Did you mean [:1] ? But anyway, the behaviour here > is exactly consistent with python lists: > > >>> [][0] > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > IndexError: list index out of range > >>> [][:0] > [] > >>> [][:1] > [] > > > We are not helping newbies by making slicing for QuerySets work > differently -- in fact we've gone to some length to make sure it > behaves as analogously as possible -- it throws the same exceptions > etc. > > Luke > > -- > "My capacity for happiness you could fit into a matchbox without taking > out the matches first." (Marvin the paranoid android) > > Luke Plant || http://lukeplant.me.uk/ > > > > -- cu Wolfram --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
