Thanks for the suggestions, everyone.
It seems to be popping up for all sorts of things -- from changing verbose_name in order to globally relabel form fields in ModelForms to changing __unicode__ methods to change template output. I know there are workarounds, but they seem less DRY. On Sep 27, 5:02 pm, Michael Williamson <mikerwilliam...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On Sep 25, 9:59 pm, ringemup <ringe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to override strings like help_text or > > verbose_name or __unicode__ methods for models in contrib or third- > > party apps? I can't seem to find anything on Google. > > > Thanks! > > A reasonably hacktastic way of doing this is monkey-patching. For > instance, say you want to override the __unicode__ method of the class > Blog. Firstly, write the new method e.g. > > def new_unicode(self): > return self._name > > Then, set the __unicode__ method of Blog to your new function: > > Blog.__unicode__ = new_unicode > > Is this a horrible piece of code? Absolutely. But it is quick, and it > works. A clean solution depends more on why you actually want to do > this. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
