Getting Access to Object in Admin Panel

[That guy]

After overriding list_display, I noticed that I lost access to being able to directly click on the object to view all its fields in the control panel. Hence, I needed to resort to defining return_unicode. I know that theres definitely a better way to approach it, so whats the 'Django' way of doing this?

def return_unicode(obj):
    return obj.__unicode__()

class PictureAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = (return_unicode,'uploader','image','rated','approved',)

Thank You ahead of time.

[donarb]

You can code a string that references the __unicode__ method:

list_display = ('__unicode__', ...

[Amirouche]

On Sunday, December 30, 2012 8:47:05 AM UTC+1, donarb wrote:

You can code a string that references the __unicode__ method:

  list_display = ('__unicode__', ...

ref: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/#django.contrib.admin.ModelAdmin.list_display 

[Daniel Roseman]

Others have given you the answer, bit note that the correct way to call an object's __unicode__ method is to do ` unicode(obj)`. As a general rule, you should never call the double- underscore methods directly.