Hey Petr, thats what I'm trying to say. Just that I didnt construct my sentences well. Thanks.
JohnA wrote: > Just to fill in some more info, __unicode__ methods are also part of > core python and just happen to appear a lot in django code because of > its preference for 16-bit unicode strings (though I think the methods > are actually mostly invoked in the admin). There is also a __str__ > function for “ordinary” (8 bit potentially mbcs) strings. (This is > Python 2.x; Python 3.x is somewhat different.) > > User-defined __unicode__ methods are overrides of builtin methods that > all objects are guaranteed to have. As the __...__ in the name > suggests, these methods are called implicitly in certain kinds of > expressions. Two cases I know of in Python 2.7 are expressions of > form unicode(obj) and expressions of form u’...%s...’ % obj (and I > assume other format expression tyopes where the format string is > unicode). In both, obj is converted to a unicode string using > whatever __unicode__ method is defined for the object. > > > On Jan 24, 6:04 pm, Krondaj <c.d.smi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in the django docs about __unicode__ it says the following: > > > > class Person(models.Model): > > first_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > last_name = models.CharField(max_length=50) > > > > def __unicode__(self): > > return u'%s %s' % (self.first_name, self.last_name) > > > > what does the u'%s %s' % mean... I cannot find any exaplanation of > > this in the docs? > > > > i've seen this in someones code that was kindly lent to me by one of > > the RC chat room people: > > > > return u'ID%s: %s - %s - %s - %s' % (self.id, self.user, > > self.question, self.answer, self.get_status_display()) > > > > but all this u' %s %s' %%%sss or what ever is most confusing.... > > > > is there a document or help guide some where that explains this > > nomenclature, or method, system??? > > > > as I believe if you take the top example you should be able to do: > > def __unicode__(self): > > return(self.first_name, self.last_name) > > > > If there is no documentation (for dummies) can anyone explain it to > > me?? > > > > Thanks > > > > Krondaj -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
