Django Model Choice Fields
February 28, 2010
You can convert any Django CharField into a droplist by specifying options in the model structure. For example:
class ContestEvent(models.Model): date_of_event = models.DateField() DATE_RESOLUTION_CHOICES = ( ('D', 'Exact Day'), ('M', 'Month'), ('Y', 'Year'), ) date_resolution = models.CharField(max_length=1, default='D', choices=DATE_RESOLUTION_CHOICES)
If you don't set a default value, you'll get a blank option in the droplist.
At runtime, you can get the normal value using
lContestEvent.date_resolution
You can also get the display version (in this case "Exact Day", "Month" or "Year") using:
lContestEvent.get_date_resolution_display()
