Question

Apologies for the simple question. I’ve tried searching the django docs for an answer, but I haven’t been able to figure it out.

I have set up a couple classes, but in the admin area they are all coming up as ‘classname object’. I tried using the code here:
How do Django model fields work?
.. but I got an enormous page of errors.

I have an abstract class of people, and then child classes of specialized people. I’m trying to get them to be listed as self.name but I can’t for the life of me figure this out.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You should implement a __unicode__ method, like:

class Person(model.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    email = models.CharField(max_length=200)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return u'%s <%s>' % (self.name, self.email)

In that point if you try to print a Person object, it will use your __unicode__ function.