It doesn't work that way. ORM translates you queries to SQL and the DB is responsible for filtering. It is not possible to translate arbitrary python function to SQL or pass it to DB engine. So you have to formulate you query using .filter syntax or raw SQL.
Another possibility is to denormalize data: add 'complete' field to the model and recalculate it on save (or whenever it make sense). This is often a good solution and it is better than complex queries in terms of performance. On 16 янв, 19:16, rmschne <rmsc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks. I'm still messing with this; but don't think it quite what I'm > looking for. > > I want/need the Model Definition function complete() for use at the > record level. I did this as a function since the rules are not based > simply on the value of the fields. > > Ideally, I'd like to have the class DinnerHoseManager(modes.Manager) > use the complete() function to help return the query set for where > complete()=True. How to put that into this class? > > It's not the simple filter. Need a little more complexity to > determining "complete" based on the two if statements. -- 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.