Re: How to use primary key as an attribute

I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish. Since the 'pk' field
is going to be defined on your instances anyway, do you need a
'thread_pk' field?

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Aamu Padi <aamupadi@gmail.com> wrote:
> This may be a lame question, but how do I use the primary key as a default
> value for an attribute?
>
> This is my models.py:
>
> class Thread(models.Model):
> thread_pk = models.PositiveIntegerField(default=self.pk)
>
> This gives me an error:
>
> self is not defined
>
> How do I go about using the pk as a default value of an attribute? Any help
> will be grateful. Thank you.
>
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