Am 05.06.2008 um 12:56 schrieb Marco Bizzarri:
Hi all.
I need to query a ZCatalog, and I would like to know how many elements are there. I'm working from inside a python product, so, I could do something like:
results = Catalog(criteria) return len(results)
But this creates a number of objects which are completly useless for me. After all, I'm interested in just the length, not in the objects.
I could do something like this:
results = Catalog(criteria, sort_limit=1) return results.actual_result_count
since I should have a LazyMap, which does not (should not) actually load all the objects (at least, I hope so).
This does not work if I have no result. So, what I should do would be:
results = Catalog(criteria, sort_limit=1) if len(results) == 0: return 0 return results.actual_result_count
Am I missing something?
Yes, you do the expensive operation just for the test, so there is no benefit. if result: result_len = results.actual_result_count else: result_len = 0 return result_len HTH, __Janko