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On Jun 26, 11:27 pm, Eric Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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