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I would like my models to have two string representations: one that is displayed in the backend logs for debugging purposes, and a cleaner one that is displayed to end users when the model is represented in the HTML. Right now, I'm just overriding __unicode__(). Is there a way to do this?
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The __str__() method is called whenever you call str() on an object. Django uses str(obj) in a number of places. Most notably, to display an object in the Django admin site and as the value inserted into a template when it displays an object.
def __str__( self ): return "something" This will display the objects as something always in the admin interface. Most of the time we name the display name which one could understand using self object.
According to documentation, An AutoField is an IntegerField that automatically increments according to available IDs. One usually won't need to use this directly because a primary key field will automatically be added to your model if you don't specify otherwise.
The maximum length (in characters) of the field. The max_length is enforced at the database level and in Django's validation using MaxLengthValidator . If you are writing an application that must be portable to multiple database backends, you should be aware that there are restrictions on max_length for some backends.
You can also try __repr__ and __str__ for your logging/debugging purposes. It is possible (at least it should be this way) that your logger/debugger uses repr( object ) to log your objects.
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