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Doing a Django ORM save without triggering signals.
def non_signal_save(obj, **kwargs):
obj.__class__.objects.filter(pk=obj.pk).update(**kwargs)
# e.g. non_signal_save(blogpost, modified=hour_ago)
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peterbe commented May 29, 2013

Useful if you have something like this:

@receiver(models.signals.pre_save, sender=BlogPost)
def update_modified(sender, instance, raw, *args, **kwargs):
    if raw:
        return
    instance.modified = now()

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peterbe commented May 29, 2013

Fixed typo.

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