__str__ vs. __unicode__ in models.py

[anonymous]

If you change settings.py to
...
USE_I18N = False

then in models.py you have to use

def str(self): rather than unicode

this is not covered in the tutorial part 1 and it took me 30 minutes to guess it. It helps that I'm a pythonista, or I would have not tried it.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

I haven't worked through the tutorial example in this situation yet, but it certainly isn't true in general. The default model __str__ method (which calls __unicode__ if it exists) has no dependency on the USE_I18N setting.

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

Looks like the problem here is that you are using version 0.96 of the code (as you indicate in the ticket) and reading the tutorial for the subversion trunk. You need to read the documentation for 0.96 if you are using that version, since unicode support was only added recently.

This has nothing to do with the USE_I18N setting.