Tutorial

[jk121960]

Hi, I am going through the tutorial, I am experienced programmer and I
am learning django. Every thing was fine till the portion where you
add the __unicode() methods to the classes. When I execute the
Poll.objects.all() ant the command line it doesn't look any
different."[<Poll: Poll object>]" just like the first python console
example. I tried to run syncdb thinking this was what was missing but
it didn't help. It stated that it
"Creating tables ...
Installing custom SQL ...
Installing indexes ...
Installed 0 object(s) from 0 fixture(s)"

like before but no change to the output in python. Can someone suggest
something so that I can move on from this part, I worked with this
some time back but was unable to utilize it. I am attempting to change
that now, ao I was going back through the lessons.


thanks and any help is appreciated

--jerry

[Jonathan Baker]

Jerry,

You'll want to be sure your method is defined as:

def __unicode__(self):

    return self.name # I'm using 'name' as an example field

with double underscores on both sides of 'unicode' instead of just in front of it.

Hope this helps,

Jonathan

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[Gerald Klein]

Hi and thanks for the response here is the code minus the line numbers -- copied from vim, all my tabs are right and I had the right underscores. 

Please let me know if you see something. 

thanks again

--jerry

 class Poll(models.Model):

  8     question = models.CharField(max_length=200)

  9     pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')

 10 

 11 class Choice(models.Model):

 12     poll = models.ForeignKey(Poll)

 13     choice = models.CharField(max_length=200)

 14     votes = models.IntegerField()

 15 

 16 class Poll(models.Model):

 17     def __unicode__(self):

 18         return self.question

 19     def was_published_recently(self):

 20         return self.pub_date >= timezone.now() - datetime.timedelta(days=1)

 21 

 22 class Choice(models.Model):

 23     def __unicode__(self):

 24         return self.choice

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[Jonathan Baker]

You redeclaring your Model classes, and you don't need to. By doing so, the 'self' inside your __unicode__ function refers to a property that isn't defined (since you redeclared the original class that had the property). Here is what the model should look like: http://codepad.org/P21ZNkZY

[Gerald Klein]

OK makes a complete sense and worked the first time thanks very much.

--jerry

[Jonathan Baker]

Glad to help!