eleom, Thanks for the catch with country county in my model.
On Feb 20, 2:22 pm, eleom <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, as the error message says, you must pass a County instance in > the argument 'county'. Now you are passing the name of the county, not > the county itself. So, your last line should be > > l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G corp', > city = 'Walla Walla', county=c, dollar_amount =54000) > > instead of > > l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G corp', > city = 'Walla Walla', county='blah blah', dollar_amount =54000) > > where c is the County object defined before. > > P.S. By the way, you mix 'County' and 'Country' in your example. > > On Feb 20, 8:06 pm, nixon66 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If this is the wrong list to post a newbie question please let me > > know. I'm getting an error message while trying to populate the tables > > created by the models and not sure why. Here are the models > > > from django.db import models > > > class County(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(max_length=80) > > slug = models.CharField(max_length=80) > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return self.name > > > def get_absolute_url(self): > > return "/countries/%s/" % self.slug > > > class Company(models.Model): > > name = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > address = models.CharField(max_length=80) > > client = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > city = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > county = models.ForeignKey(Country) > > dollar_amount = models.DecimalField('Cost (in dollars)', > > max_digits=10, decimal_places=2) > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return self.name > > > So I go into the shell and type this: > > > >>c=County(name='blah blah, slug="blah-blah") > > > then > > > >> l = Company(name='xyz corp', address='56 b. street', client='G corp', > > >> city = 'Walla Walla', county='blah blah', dollar_amount =54000) > > > The error message I get is Valueerror: Cannot assign "blah blah" : > > "Company.county" must be a "County" instance. > > > doesn't this create the instance? > > >> c=County('blah blah', slug='blah-blah') > > > Any suggestion or point out my error would be appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
