Re: Determine if model item is subclassed

2008-09-03 Thread ekellner
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM, gauteh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there a different way to accomplish what im trying to do? or do i > need to check in my view function for which subclass that exists: > try: >n = items.newsitem > except DoesNotExist: >pass > try: >l = items.linkitem

Determine if model item is subclassed

2008-09-02 Thread gauteh
Hello Im trying to create a webpage that displays several types of posts on the front page, they all inherit from a basic Item class (say BasicItem). On the front page I query for BasicItem.objects.all() [0:20] and I want to pass them on to my template and let my template render each item based o