On 04/28/2015 09:10 AM, Ilya Kazakevich wrote: > I have many places in my app where user (from user model) is displayed: > templates, forms, fliters, tables etc. > It is displayed as username everywhere. > > I want it to be displayed as first_name/last_name. > > I can do that with monkey patching: > > @receiver(request_started) > def patch(*args, **kwargs): > get_user_model().__str__ = my_smart_str_func > > I use "request_started" to make sure all models are loaded. (BTW, does > there is something like "models loaded" signal?).
Not a signal; the proper place for code like this in Django 1.7+ is in an AppConfig.ready() method. > How ever, I feel it a little bit hacky. There should be more pythonic > way to do that. Am I miss something? Of course, the best way to do this is a custom User model so you don't have to monkeypatch at all. Sadly, switching to a custom User model is difficult if the project didn't start with one. Carl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/553FA98A.4060301%40oddbird.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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