On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Joshua Russo <josh.r.ru...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:27 PM, about2flip <mnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I am using learn django in 24 hours and I am following this example on
>> models.
>>
>> from django.db import models
>>
>> class Person(models.Model):
>> name = models.CharField('name', maxlength=200)
>> email = models.EmailField('Email', blank=True)
>> headshots = models.ImageField(upload_to='img', blank=True)
>> text = models.TextField('Desc', maxlength=500, blank=True)
>> def_str_(self):
>> return '%s' % (self.name)
>>
>> I keep getting an error when I use the command>>>python manage.py
>> syncdb (see below)
>>
>>
>> E:\djproj\ifriends>python manage.py syncdb
>> C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\MySQLdb\__init__.py:34:
>> DeprecationWarning: the se
>> ts module is deprecated
>> from sets import ImmutableSet
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>
>> execute_manager(settings)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management
>> \__init__.py", line
>> 362, in execute_manager
>> utility.execute()
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management
>> \__init__.py", line
>> 303, in execute
>> self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
>> line 195,
>> in run_from_argv
>> self.execute(*args, **options.__dict__)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
>> line 221,
>> in execute
>> self.validate()
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management\base.py",
>> line 249,
>> in validate
>> num_errors = get_validation_errors(s, app)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\core\management
>> \validation.py", lin
>> e 28, in get_validation_errors
>> for (app_name, error) in get_app_errors().items():
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py",
>> line 131, in
>> get_app_errors
>> self._populate()
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py",
>> line 58, in
>> _populate
>> self.load_app(app_name, True)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\db\models\loading.py",
>> line 74, in
>> load_app
>> models = import_module('.models', app_name)
>> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\django\utils\importlib.py", line
>> 35, in im
>> port_module
>> __import__(name)
>> File "E:\djproj\ifriends\..\ifriends\People\models.py", line 8
>> def_str_(self):
>> ^
>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>
>> E:\djproj\ifriends>
>>
>> Its telling me it is line 8, but I double check 5x already and it is
>> the same as the book. The book does not have an errata, so I am not
>> sure if the syntaxt is correct because I am a Freshman learning
>> django.
>>
>> thanks too all that reply with help.
>
>
> Put a space between 'def' and '_str_' and it should work. Tho you want to
> use _unicode_ instead of _str_ in django. All string output is handled as
> unicode.
>
And to perform the unicode out correctly the string in the body of your
method needs a u decoration infront of the string to indicate unicode.
return u'%s' % (self.name)
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