Writing your first Django app, part 1 - Django 1.7 - # Make sure our __str__() addition worked.

[Gavin Patrick McCoy]

Hi,

Just started learning Django today. I got down to the last grey box of code on https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial01/#writing-your-first-django-app-part-1 and when I checked to see of the __str__() addition to models.py worked, it didn't. I didn't get [<Question: What's up?>], I got [<Question: Question object>]. I tried creating a new question again and did but now I get  [<Question: Question object>, <Question: Question object>]. I then tried 'the three-step guide to making model changes: Change your models (in models.py). Run python manage.py makemigrations to create migrations for those changes. Run python manage.py migrate to apply those changes to the database.' I still got  [<Question: Question object>, <Question: Question object>]. Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Gavin

My models.py looks like this:

import datetime

from django.db import models
from django.utils import timezone

# Create your models here.
class Question(models.Model):
    question_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
   
    def _str_(self):
        return self.question_text
   
    def was_published_recently(self):
        return self.pub_date >= timezone.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
   
class Choice(models.Model):
    question = models.ForeignKey(Question)
    choice_text = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    votes = models.IntegerField(default=0)

    def __str(self):
        return self.choice_text

[Vijay Khemlani]

The method is called "__str__" (note the double underscore at both ends)

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[Gavin Patrick McCoy]

Sorry about that. Thanks a million for your reply.

[Vijay Khemlani]

Don't worry :)

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