You'd almost think they were handing out prizes for being quickest on
the draw :)
On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:18 PM, joshuajonah wrote:
>
> And this is why the Django community rocks, two examples and a full
> explaination with a link in less than 10 minutes, GW guys
>
> On Jun 26, 11:55 pm, bhunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi, sorry for what is probably a trivial question, but I'm new to
>> Django and a little fuzzy on databases in general, so I hope someone
>> here can help. Just to keep the motif, I'll frame my question in
>> terms of journalism.
>>
>> I'd like to set up a database with the following relationships: a
>> model of articles and a model of journalists. That's easy enough.
>> Because one article can have multiple journalists associated with it,
>> that's a ManyToMany relationship:
>>
>> class Journalist(models.Model):
>> pass
>>
>> class Article(models.Model):
>> journalists = models.ManyToManyField(Journalist)
>>
>> Simple, but that's not what I happen to want. What I really want in
>> my application is to know the *status* of a journalist with respect
>> to
>> an article. That status could be, let's say, one of four things:
>> ["Unafilliated", "CurrentlyWriting", "DoneWriting", "Dead"].
>>
>> Coming from a Python background, I might just call this a dictionary
>> of statuses, with Journalists being the keys, and each entry
>> containing one of four values:
>>
>> class Article(models.Model):
>> status = { "Bob Ryan" : "CurrentlyWriting",
>> "Rob Bradford" : "Unaffiliated",
>> "Peter Gammons" : "DoneWriting",
>> "Dan Shaughnessy" : "Dead"}
>>
>> Ok, Shaughnessy isn't dead, but if you lived in Boston, you'd
>> understand. Anyway, a dictionary is nice and all, but then the
>> information isn't in the database, and that's the whole point.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what this relationship is called and how to do it
>> in Django?
>>
>> Thanks!
> >
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