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Daniel Wu
4,349 Points__str__(self) not working
The following does not output the string information
from django.db import models
# Create your models here.
class Course(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
#whenever record first added or created will be now in the time zone
title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
description = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
#defines how this thing turns into a string
return self.title
output
In [14]: Course.objects.all()
Out[14]: [<Course: Course object>, <Course: Course object>, <Course: Course object>]
[MOD: fixed formatting -cf]
2 Answers
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsThe __str__() method is only used in a string or printing context. Printing containers will displayed each contained element using __repl__(). To see the strings of your objects within the list, create a ___repl__() method that outputs a string, or use print or str() to extract all the strings from the list:
[str(x) for x in Course.objects.all()]
Banjo Quint
1,452 PointsThis looks good but it isn't what's described in the course,which as stated in the question, doesn't appear to work
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,457 PointsIām not sure what you mean. Could you please elaborate on your answer?