On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 22:40 +0000, cyberco wrote:
> My model has a choice field:
>
> ===========================================
> class Foo(models.Model):
> STATUS = (
> ('C', 'Created'),
> ('E', 'Edited'),
> ('F', 'Finished'),
> )
> status = models.CharField(maxlength=1, choices=STATUS)
> ===========================================
>
> Now in my template I want to display the full name, not the key of the
> choice (as I get when using {{ foo.status}} ). How?
Your model will have a method called get_status_display() that returns
the displayable string for the current value of the 'status' field.
This is documented in a slightly non-intuitive location -- [1] -- so you
haven't overlooked something that is entirely obvious.
[1] http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db_api/#get-foo-display
Regards,
Malcolm
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