Re: django docs __unicode__ return u'%s %s

Hey Petr, thats what I'm trying to say. Just that I didnt construct my
sentences well. Thanks.

JohnA wrote:
> Just to fill in some more info, __unicode__ methods are also part of
> core python and just happen to appear a lot in django code because of
> its preference for 16-bit unicode strings (though I think the methods
> are actually mostly invoked in the admin). There is also a __str__
> function for "ordinary" (8 bit potentially mbcs) strings. (This is
> Python 2.x; Python 3.x is somewhat different.)
>
> User-defined __unicode__ methods are overrides of builtin methods that
> all objects are guaranteed to have. As the __...__ in the name
> suggests, these methods are called implicitly in certain kinds of
> expressions. Two cases I know of in Python 2.7 are expressions of
> form unicode(obj) and expressions of form u'...%s...' % obj (and I
> assume other format expression tyopes where the format string is
> unicode). In both, obj is converted to a unicode string using
> whatever __unicode__ method is defined for the object.
>
>
> On Jan 24, 6:04 pm, Krondaj <c.d.smi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > in the django docs about __unicode__  it says the following:
> >
> > class Person(models.Model):
> >     first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> >     last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50)
> >
> >     def __unicode__(self):
> >         return u'%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name)
> >
> > what does the u'%s %s' % mean... I cannot find any exaplanation of
> > this in the docs?
> >
> > i've seen this in someones code that was kindly lent to me by one of
> > the RC chat room people:
> >
> > return u'ID%s: %s - %s - %s - %s' % (self.id, self.user,
> > self.question, self.answer, self.get_status_display())
> >
> > but all this u' %s  %s'   %%%sss or what ever is most confusing....
> >
> > is there a document or help guide some where that explains this
> > nomenclature, or method, system???
> >
> > as I believe if you take the top example you should be able to do:
> >  def __unicode__(self):
> >         return(self.first_name, self.last_name)
> >
> > If there is no documentation (for dummies) can anyone explain it to
> > me??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Krondaj

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