> I would like to access the help_text attribute of my model fields when
> responding with XML like this

<snip>
>
> I'm nut using Django forms but responding to Flex with XML.  There must
> be some way to access this information, but I've been through the docus
> and google with no luck.
>
> Does anyone know how to access the help_text of the fields, once I have
> the model instance object?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred.

MyModel._meta.get_field_by_name('fieldname')[0].help_text

Although I must say that the examples you give look like they would be
better as verbose_name, rather than help_text.  

Thanks; that's a life saver :)

I don't intend to use these names as column names but as content of a column, 
used for debugging as much as anything else. I'm new to Django, so I had not 
thought of verbose name.  I really had not anticipated using the help_text at 
all when I defined my models, but a situation came up where I needed to do a

Name --- value ---- description type of table.

is there an advantage of verbosename over helptext in my scenario?


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