Re: Why can't erase this model object? "AssertionError: Question object can't be deleted because its id attribute is set to None."

How are you finding these objects? That might point to the answer.

Probably the likeliest explanation is that you are creating the
objects but not saving them.

On Jan 21, 12:31 pm, Chris Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 21, 6:44 am, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Models are representations of rows in a database.
> > Deleting a model instance implies removing a row from a database.
> > Model instances have an id attribute which denotes their row in the database.
> > Models whose id is None don't exist in the database, and so it is
> > nonsense to delete them - they don't exist.
>
> That makes perfect sense but then why do these zombie id=None objects
> show up?
> *WHERE* are they living if not in the database?  Does the Django shell
> somehow have a secondary storage area for this zombie id=None object
> stuff I can delete somehow?

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