Question

I’ve been doing some models of a future app, and, after adding verbose_name and verbose_name_plural to every entry on a working model, for making it ‘beautiful’, I’ve found that at validate time, Django doesn’t like that, so it says:

  File '/home/andor/Documentos/desarrollo/grundymanage/../grundymanage/concursantes/models.py', line 4, in <module>     class Concursante(models.Model):   File '/home/andor/Documentos/desarrollo/grundymanage/../grundymanage/concursantes/models.py', line 7, in Concursante     nombre_artistico = models.CharField(verbose_name='Nombre Artístico', verbose_name_plural='Nombres Artísticos', max_length=50) TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'verbose_name_plural' 

My model begins like this:

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*- from django.db import models  class Concursante(models.Model):     nombre = models.CharField(verbose_name='Nombre', max_length=30)     apellidos = models.CharField(verbose_name='Apellidos', max_length=50)     nombre_artistico = models.CharField(verbose_name='Nombre Artístico', verbose_name_plural='Nombres Artísticos', max_length=50) 

Why ‘he’ didn’t expects a plural verbose name there? Cannot live together with verbose_name?

FYI, this are my software versions:

• Ubuntu 8.04
• Python 2.5.2
• Django ‘1’ ‘0’ ‘final’
• Django ubuntu package version ‘1.0-1ubuntu1’

Answer 1

Unfortunately, verbose_name_plural is not an option on the field. It’s a meta option for the model itself. A field has no plural name since, unless it’s a many-to-many relationship (in which case Django will use the plural for the model pointed to by the relationship), there’s only one entity in that field.

Here’s the doc section: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/#id3