Why not create your own function then and just put the try or except code in that? That way it'll only be one line.
On Dec 17, 3:19 pm, nbv4 <cp368...@ohio.edu> wrote: > On Dec 17, 5:00 am, Thomas Guettler <h...@tbz-pariv.de> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > The method user.get_profile() fails, if the user has no profile. During > > my custom login I > > check if the user has a profile and create it if needed. > > > But sometimes this fails: A new user gets created, but before his first > > login someone else > > tries to access the not yet created profile. > > > Since all fields of my profile model have default values, it could be > > created it on the fly. > > > Since I don't want to run a modified django, I will use my own > > get_profile method. > > > Does some know this problem? How do you solve this? > > I'm having the same problem. I have about 4 models that are 1to1 > linked to a user, much like how the get_profile() thing works. Every > time I want to access that model, I have to do this: > > ###### > try: > m = SomeModel.objects.get(pk=request.user) > except: > m = SomeModel() > ###### > > Which gets annoying to have to do every single time. I wish there was > some way to do something like: > > ###### > m = SomeModel.objects.get_or_blank(pk=request.user) > ###### > > Yeah, sure you can have it create a row in the database every time a > new user registers, but why hit the database when all you ever need is > the default values? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
