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19th March 2008 - Link Blog

Queryset Implementation. Malcolm explains the work that has gone in to the queryset-refactor branch. Executive summary: Python’s ORM is probably a lot better at SQL than you are.

Posted 19th March 2008 at 9:43 am

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