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authorAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2007-07-14 16:58:54 +0000
committerAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2007-07-14 16:58:54 +0000
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@@ -121,19 +121,22 @@ objects, when you're confident you won't have primary-key collision.
Raw saves
---------
-When you save an Django object, some pre-processing will occur on the the data
-that is in the object. For example, if your model has a ``DateField`` with
-``auto_now=True`` set, the pre-save phase will alter the data in the object
-to ensure that the date field contains the current date stamp.
+**New in Django development version**
+
+When you save an Django object, some pre-processing might occur on the the
+object's data before it's saved to the database. For example, if your model has
+a ``DateField`` with ``auto_now=True`` set, the pre-save phase will alter the
+data in the object to ensure that the date field contains the current date
+stamp.
-Although these automated changes can be very useful, there will be times when
-you just want to save the data as-is. In these cases, you can invoke a *Raw Save*
-by passing ``raw=True`` as an argument to the ``save()`` method::
+Although these automated changes can be useful, sometimes you just want to save
+the data as-is. In these cases, you can invoke a **raw save** by passing
+``raw=True`` as an argument to the ``save()`` method::
b4.save(raw=True) # Saves object, but does no pre-processing
-A raw save saves all the data in your object, but performs no pre-save processing
-on the data in the object.
+A raw save saves all the data in your object, but performs no pre-save processing
+on the data in the object.
Saving changes to objects
=========================