On Jul 20, 11:09 pm, "Russell Keith-Magee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/21/07, jeffself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > How do I get the season to > > display in the select box of my season field on the Game form? > > Normally this would be fixed by using def __unicode__(self) but since > > its not a CharField, I can't use that. I tried def __integer__(self) > > but that didn't make a difference. > > You were on the right track with __unicode__(). > > __unicode__ is the instructions to Python as to how to produce a > human-readable representation of this object (in unicode). I'm > guessing what you tried was: > > def __unicode__(self): > return self.year > > which failed. This failed because what you are returning is an > integer, not a unicode string, so when the return value is combined > with other strings it raises an error. However, if you make a slight > change to convert the year into a string before it is returned: > > def __unicode__(self): > return unicode(self.year) > > Everything should work nicely. You can even get creative, and add in > other bits of text: > > def __unicode__(self): > return unicode(self.year) + u" Season" > > So that what gets display isn't just a year, but "1999 Season". > > Hope this helps. > > Yours, > Russ Magee %-) Thanks a lot! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
