display text value of a positiveintegerfield

[6233114 6233114]

I am a newbie. I have searched the django docs for this answer, but I failed to find a reference, so here is my question.

I have a select list as part of a form stored in my models.py file as a positiveintegerfield, as shown below:

    

class AchievementDetails(models.Model, FillableModelWithLanguageVersion):

    SELECT_ACHIEVEMENT_TYPE = 0

    ACADEMIC_ACHIEVEMENT = 1

    COMMERCIAL_ACHIEVEMENT = 2

    PERSONAL_ACHIEVEMENT = 3

    PROFESSIONAL_ACHIEVEMENT = 4

    SPORTING_ACHIEVEMENT = 5

    OTHER_ACHIEVEMENT_TYPE = 6

    ACHIEVEMENT_TYPES = (

        (SELECT_ACHIEVEMENT_TYPE, _('Select Type')),

        (ACADEMIC_ACHIEVEMENT, _('Academic Achievement')),

        (COMMERCIAL_ACHIEVEMENT, _('Commercial Achievement')),

        (PERSONAL_ACHIEVEMENT, _('Personal Achievement')),

        (PROFESSIONAL_ACHIEVEMENT, _('Professional Achievement')),

        (SPORTING_ACHIEVEMENT, _('Sporting Achievement')),

        (OTHER_ACHIEVEMENT_TYPE, _('Other Achievement Type'))

    )

    ....

    achievement_type = models.PositiveIntegerField(choices=ACHIEVEMENT_TYPES, default=SELECT_ACHIEVEMENT_TYPE, validators=[MinValueValidator(1)])
    ....

In one of my templates I would like to display the text value of the achievement_type, but I can only get the number value of the users saved selection to be displayed.

Here is my views code, that returns only the numerical value of the users saved selection:

def achievement_details(request):

    ....

    for ad in achievement_details:

             ad.achievement_type_as_text = ad.achievement_type 

    ....

How do I display the text value of the saved select list value?

For example if the user has saved 2 as the achievement_type, how do I display Academic Achievement and not the number 2.

I have tried the following line of code, but this only returns (2, )

ad.achievement_type_as_text = AchievementDetails.ACHIEVEMENT_TYPES[ad.achievement_type]

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 9/10/2014 1:58 PM, 6233114 6233114 wrote:
>
> *How do I display the text value of the saved select list value?*

>
> For example if the user has saved 2 as the achievement_type, how do I

> display *Academic Achievement* and not the number 2.

Easy ...

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/#django.db.models.Model.get_FOO_display


>
> I have tried the following line of code, but this only returns *(2, )*
> *
> *
> *
> |
> ad.achievement_type_as_text =
> AchievementDetails.ACHIEVEMENT_TYPES[ad.achievement_type]
> |
>
> *

[6233114 6233114]

Wow so easy (when you know where to look).

Thank you!