Glad to help. How the record is represented is up to you. For instance, if
I have a Person model with the fields first_name, middle_name, last_name,
email_address and phone number, I would think it prudent to define
__unicode__ as:
def __unicode__(self):
return '%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)
... since first + last name is a common representation for a person. It
would be just as valid (and perhaps even more usable in some situations) to
return a middle name as well.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:34 PM, MF-DOS <pwashingto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> If my model has 5 fields, why am I only returning one or two?
> Shouldn't I return all 5?
>
> On Mar 24, 9:19 pm, Jonathan Baker <jonathandavidba...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The __unicode__ method allows models to return a more usable
> representation
> > of a record instead of a unicode object. This is useful in a variety of
> > places, from the Django admin to using the manage.py shell on the command
> > line.
> >
> > The return statement effectively ends the execution of a particular
> > function or method by returning something (an object, string, whatever
> you
> > may need to return for the task at hand).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM, spike <pwashingto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Running the tut here:
> > >https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/intro/tutorial01/ but I'm having
> > > trouble understanding what the point of __unicode__ is. Also, what is
> the
> > > point of the return statements? I've read the docs over and over but
> don't
> > > get it.
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