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Ankit Bindal
2,830 Pointsentry is local variable.
the delete_item() function does not belong to the model. When I do entry.delete_instance(), should't it delete the local variable "entry". Why is it deleting the actual entry(I know that's what we want, but its not like I have passed a pointer to entry here)?
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Josh Keenan
19,652 PointsThe function gets the entry passed in as an argument, then the same argument is what is being deleted, the actual entry from the table is being passed into the function and then you delete it with .delete_instance().
Ankit Bindal
2,830 PointsAnkit Bindal
2,830 Pointsmakes sense. Thanks