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Michael Torres
Michael Torres

Reputation: 522

better way to write def __str__(self) in django model

I am writing a django app. I'm curious if there is a better way of writing the python "magic method" __str__() that returns a string representation of any object. Currently, following the Django docs I find that you can do the following...

class Todo(models.Model):
  firstName = models.CharField(max_length=30)
  secondName = models.CharField(max_length=30)
  
  def __str__(self):
    "%s %s" % (self.firstName, self.secondName)

Fine and dandy but if I have 8, or even more fields, then it gets kind of annoying to do this. First I find myself counting how many fields I want and make sure to write out %s that many times just to then write out self. the same amount of times and this really sucks.

I was hoping to if anyone knows of easier ways of writing this out and if there are what are the differences. I haven't been able to find another method online so I'd appreciate some help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4286

Answers (1)

token
token

Reputation: 933

If you are using Python >=3.6, then you can use f-strings.

def __str__(self):
    return f"{self.firstName} {self.secondName}"

Upvotes: 1

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