Django - Overriding the Model.create() method?

django, django-forms, django-models

Solution

Overriding `__init__()` would cause code to be executed whenever the python representation of object is instantiated. I don't know rails, but a `:before_created` filter sounds to me like it's code to be executed when the object is created in the database. If you want to execute code when a new object is created in the database, you should override `save()`, checking if the object has a `pk` attribute or not. The code would look something like this:

def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
    if not self.pk:
        # This code only happens if the objects is
        # not in the database yet. Otherwise it would
        # have pk
    super(MyModel, self).save(*args, **kwargs)

Problem

The Django docs only list examples for overriding `save()` and `delete()`. However, I'd like to define some extra processing for my models only when they are created. For anyone familiar with Rails, it would be the equivalent to creating a `:before_create` filter. Is this possible?

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