Re: Best way to export data from Django?

Thanks Melvyn. Using model_to_dict I can now see the ID.

Tom

On Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:15:58 AM UTC+1, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:

On 17-8-2012 18:41, Tom wrote:

> I'm able to export the data this way, but I can't get the attributes
> of the full model as I would as if I was using the Django shell.
> Particularly important is the ID of an object, because without that I
> won't know which ID to update on the remote web service. That's why
> I'm only dealing with "created" objects for now.

Why not? You have full access to the created instance with the instance
argument passed to the post_save signal.
You could for example use:
from django.forms import model_to_dict
data = model_to_dict(instance)
print data

and you should see the pk there.

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Melvyn Sopacua

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