Thanks Brian, 'QWERTY' goes from the form entry here...but that's not important as issue is located somewhere else, precisely save is called twice... apologise for that
Cheers, Philip On Jul 21, 2:52 pm, Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:09:36AM -0700, Phil wrote: > > defsave(): > > # title is received from a form, say i've entered 'QWERTY' > > title1 = str(self.title) > > self.fulltitle = title1 > > #fulltitle = title = 'QWERTY' > > self.title = 'sampletext' > > super(Article, self).save() > > > after all i got: > > fulltitle = title = 'sampletext' > > i was expecting to have: > > fulltitle = 'QWERTY' > > title = 'sampletext' > > Why should it do that? > > The only line containing QWERTY is commented out, and even if it wasn't > commented out it does nothing. Maybe you meant to say: > > self.fulltitle = self.title = 'QWERTY' > > As such, what you have is: > > self.fulltitle = self.title > self.title = 'sampletext' > self.save() > > So the new value of self.fulltitle depends on what self.title previously was. > -- > Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
