Re: Can you confirm Stack Overflow answer about `.exists()`?

2013-01-18 Thread Ram Rachum
It's done more like explaining a side-effect than explaining the *purpose* of the method. It shouldn't be "notice that when you use `exists`, it has the following effects on efficiency", but "`exists`'s entire purpose is to get higher efficiency in situations where you don't want to access the

Re: Can you confirm Stack Overflow answer about `.exists()`?

2013-01-18 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > I suggest copying your explanation into the documentation. it's already there: " This means that calling QuerySet.exists() is faster than bool(some_query_set), but not by a large degree. If some_query_set has not yet been

Re: Can you confirm Stack Overflow answer about `.exists()`?

2013-01-18 Thread Ram Rachum
Thanks Carl! I suggest copying your explanation into the documentation. Thanks, Ram. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Carl Meyer wrote: > Hi Ram, > > On 01/18/2013 06:25 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > > Can someone who's familiar with Django internals please confirm or deny > >

Re: Can you confirm Stack Overflow answer about `.exists()`?

2013-01-18 Thread Carl Meyer
Hi Ram, On 01/18/2013 06:25 AM, Ram Rachum wrote: > Can someone who's familiar with Django internals please confirm or deny > the following answer to my question? > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/14369747/76701 That answer is correct. A common situation for evaluating a queryset in a boolean

Can you confirm Stack Overflow answer about `.exists()`?

2013-01-18 Thread Ram Rachum
Can someone who's familiar with Django internals please confirm or deny the following answer to my question? http://stackoverflow.com/a/14369747/76701 Thanks, Ram. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To view this discussion