Added {{{Manager.create()}}} method to create and save an object in a single step.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@3217 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/db-api.txt b/docs/db-api.txt
index 5108949184..15b70ee028 100644
--- a/docs/db-api.txt
+++ b/docs/db-api.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ the database until you explicitly call ``save()``.
 
 The ``save()`` method has no return value.
 
+To create an object and save it all in one step see the `create`__ method.
+
+__ `create(**kwargs)`_
+
 Auto-incrementing primary keys
 ------------------------------
 
@@ -705,6 +709,20 @@ The ``DoesNotExist`` exception inherits from
     except ObjectDoesNotExist:
         print "Either the entry or blog doesn't exist."
 
+``create(**kwargs)``
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+A convenience method for creating an object and saving it all in one step.  Thus::
+
+    p = Person.objects.create(first_name="Bruce", last_name="Springsteen")
+    
+and::
+
+    p = Person(first_name="Bruce", last_name="Springsteen")
+    p.save()
+    
+are equivalent.
+
 ``get_or_create(**kwargs)``
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~