Question

I’m using manage.py shell and run something like this:

d=Document.objects.get(pk=1)
d.scores  
{1:0,2:0,3:0}  
d.scores[1]=5
d.scores
{1:5,2:0,3:0} 
d.save()

But viewing d in the database reveals that it hasn’t been updated. What am I doing wrong?? I checked out what’s here, but d is definitely a Document instance.

If it helps, models.py looks like this:

from django.db import models

class Document(models.Model):
    fileName=models.CharField(max_length=200)    
    fileUrl=models.CharField(max_length=200) 
    scores={1:0,2:0,3:0}  

Answer 1

Your ‘scores’ class variable isn’t an instance of any of Django’s *Field classes. I would imagine the ‘scores’ field isn’t even on the table in the DB, since the field classes are what defines all of that, and what gets saved to the DB, among other things.