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Python Django Basics Final Details Content Field

Rey Adronico Baguio
Rey Adronico Baguio
13,672 Points
Posted by Rey Adronico Baguio
Rey Adronico Baguio
13,672 Points

Do we need to input both blank and default?

Question: I understand why we had an error when we tried to do a migration on a field that's not nullable (like the content Text Field). That meant we had to set a default either via the python shell or via the python script itself. But why did we have to set blank = True? Couldn't we leave it as just:

content = models.TextField(default='')? So it's always set as a empty string when there are no inputs in it?

I'm sure I'm missing something so I would just like to understand what I'm missing :)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
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Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 Points

The blank=True is used to tell the Form generator to allow a blank entry for this field on POST data.