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yea for some reason i just coded that naturally but it looked wrong

Bonjour :)

does django automatically iterate through that>

(the links member)

EyePulp, do you see what I am trying to do

EyePulp, yes menus and links will only be changed from the admin but I would like to be able to get the same results in the console

ryan_: I don't - and can't look at the moment - just wanted to pass along my experience, ie. there's no way to get updated m2m connections from within the .save()

=)

EyePulp, the same problem exists then?

yup

EyePulp, okay is there some standard workaround or should i make this a cron job?

first user forces it?

ryan_: save() twice?

ryan_: how do the menus/links get updated?

ryan_: I could be totally off base, so ignore me for the moment - listen to the others.

SmileyChris: What I said earlier happened

SmileyChris: It replaced all the pictures with the same picture

Iradieh_: well you're doing it wrong then

SmileyChris: ok, but I don't think it processes the text more the once

it doesn't need to

It just goes through it once, and relaces [[ picture "name" ]] with the same picture all over the place

then you're doing it wrong

SmileyChris: it does because it requires multiple checkups

I am probaly, yes

Iradieh_: post the code

hold on going to change some stuff

does anyone know if in overriding a Model save, you immediately call parent.save(), would an updated many to many table be ready there?

whereas in signals this is a known bug?

or feature not available w/e

ryan_: again, I don't believe changes to a m2m table are part of an object save... they are a separate action

hence why you do it with separate code

reinforced by the fact you must save a new model BEFORE you can set any m2m fields

SmileyChris: http://gist.github.com/146533

SmileyChris: That works, but again, I might be wrong or the code looks horrible (I know, I will fix the regexp later)

Iradieh_: firstly, match is wrong - you should be using .search()

why can't I do super(Link, self).save()

SmileyChris: Okay? But as I said, it actually works good this time

i understand your point about that not occruing at the same time

Iradieh_: it won't run the sub unless there is a "picture xxxx" right at the start of the content

ryan_: because you're not passing args, for a start

SmileyChris: I know, as I said, the regexp is crap for now..

so how can Django guarantee an updated many to many table?

But the system does it jobb..

i mean it must occur by mechanism in the same transaction?

Iradieh_: other hints, '\w' == '[A-Za-z0-9_]' and you don't need to use '__exact'

does \w include _ (underline?)

okay nevermind i just read the bug description more carefully

Ok, sorry I didn't know, (Ruby doesn't)

SmileyChris: Anyway I changed to sub too.

SmileyChris: do you wanna see it? (I mean the page)

ryan_: if you take control of transactions, it will

Iradieh_: lastly, you aren't escaping very nicely

SmileyChris: Hmm What do you mean? I want to have HTML there..

SmileyChris: the "code" is like picture starwars picture bush picture oranges (with some text between)

FunkyBob, have you tried any of the patches?

Iradieh_: read through http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/cust...

SmileyChris: I have...

Whats wrong with my escaping

ryan_: what patches?

Thats how I got the safe_mark()

Iradieh_: you shouldn't use is_safe, because you are introducing non-safe characters

ryan_: start again... what's your actual goal here?

SmileyChris: ok, but I want those non-safe to be visible?

FunkyBob, it's exactly the problem in this bug http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5390

Iradieh_: mark_safe is fine

SmileyChris: Did you see the page?

ryan_: what is YOUR actual goal here? what is the overall action YOU are trying to achieve?

not HOW... WHAT

SmileyChris: I am glad :D it worked! I haven't been able to find something like this on djangosnippets.. I am thinking of adding it (my first contribution)

Iradieh_: yep

you'd have to make it a bit more generic, and add tests - but sure

and if you want to watch a m2m, can it be dealt with via a through?

I am trying to cache the menu's xhtml every time someone alters a link at all or a menu at all. (which in reality shouldn't be often)

I am creating an app called staticpages

it adds a menu component to the mix

and makes it easier for a cleitn to change their own content

ok

it is very similar to flatpages, uses the same middleware mechanism

is generating the menu proving to be that expensive?

no

i guess i'm guilty of optimizing before just doing

then why are you caching it?

trying to be fancy i don't know

it just seems like right thing to do