Re: curious about model classes

Yes, that's more a Python problem, not specifically django.

You would normally do:

class User(models.Model):
def __init__(self):
name = ...

but this looks not cool) That's why most of python libraries use "declarative" syntax to describe models:

class User(models.Model):
name = ...

And then behind the scenes they just hide that name variable somewhere and create another name object-variable.
I think that is frustrating for newbies and lots of other users since it's hard to understand difference between object-properties and class-properties)

That's one of things why python is broken, imho. But it's still better then everything else)

02.03.2011, 23:02, "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@gmail.com>;:

>  Hi all,
>  Still working through that tutorial. I am just curious: why are none
>  of the class variables called self.var, but rather just var? For
>  example:
>  import models
>  class Poll(models.Model):
>   question=models.CharField(max_length=200)
>
>  Should that not be
>  self.question=...
>  instead? Otherwise, saying something like:
>  poll=Poll()
>  poll.question="question?"
>  should not work; question is not told to be part of the class by way
>  of self. This may stray from django and into pure python territory, so
>  sorry if it gets off-topic. I have never seen a class that does not
>  tie its variables to itself with self or some other keyword. Come to
>  think of it, there is no __init__ method. I know that it is not
>  necessary to have one, but I figured I would have seen one to get
>  things set up.
>
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