Opened 19 years ago

Closed 19 years ago

#1768 closed defect (fixed)

Erroneous discussion of repr in docs/tutorial02.txt?

Reported by: nick@… Owned by: Jacob
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Under Customize the admin change list, docs/tutorial02.txt states that "By default, Django displays the repr of each object."

Should that read "Django displays the str of each object" ?

When I give a model class a __str__ method, the value returned by that method is what the admin interface displays, regardless of whether there is a __repr__ method defined. The only time that __repr__ seems to be called is when there is no
__str__ defined.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Adrian Holovaty, 19 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

This has been clarified.

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