Not clear about the dot notation

Sun Jan 16 15:44:35 EST 2011

On Jan 16, 3:24 pm, TomF <tomf.sess... at gmail.com> wrote:
> vote refers to the Vote instance.

So he must have instatiated previously like
vote = Vote()
is this correct?
So I have a model
class Item(db.Model):
 title = db.StringProperty()
 url = db.StringProperty()
 date = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
 author = db.UserProperty()
and to write to the database I do
 item = Item()
 item.title = self.request.get("title")
 item.url = self.request.get("url")
 item.author = users.get_current_user()
 item.put()
 self.redirect("/newest")
so his vote.vote is like my item.url ?