Re: Unicode translation problem

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, John Maines <jmaines@sun-sentinel.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am going through the Django Tutorials on the Django home page. All
> has gone fine, except one thing:
>
> When building the admin page, I can't get the unicode translator to
> work. It is supposed to change "Poll: Poll object" to readable text.
> It just doesn't work. I am using PostgreSQL set for UTF8 encoding.
> Running on Windows.
>
> Any ideas? Thank you.

The problem you are trying to solve is not clear to me. Reformulate
your question, please.

> Here are the instructions that fail:
>
> "Wait a minute. <Poll: Poll object> is, utterly, an unhelpful
> representation of this object. Let's fix that by editing the polls
> model (in the polls/models.py file) and adding a __unicode__() method
> to both Poll and Choice:"

Check out what the __unicode__() method is all about:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/?from=olddocs#unicode

For general information of Unicode support in Django you may find here:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/unicode/

>
> class Poll(models.Model):
>    # ...
>    def __unicode__(self):
>        return self.question
>
> class Choice(models.Model):
>    # ...
>    def __unicode__(self):
>        return self.choice
>
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