Re: Overriding verbose_name in contrib or 3rd-party apps?

[Nan]

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 
wrote:
> On Sep 25, 9:59 pm, ringemup  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.
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Re: Overriding verbose_name in contrib or 3rd-party apps?

[Michael Williamson]

On Sep 25, 9:59 pm, ringemup  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.
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Re: Overriding verbose_name in contrib or 3rd-party apps?

[Wim Feijen]

Can you please post some more information for what purpose you like to
do this?

My first guess would be you are using the admin interface. Dirty
workarounds are: copying code and adapting it, importing from your
adaptation in stead of the original. Maybe modifying the admin view to
do something differently. Or adapt a translation?

Probably there are a hundred better ways, but you can try these for a
start.

Wim

On Sep 25, 10:59 pm, ringemup  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!
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Overriding verbose_name in contrib or 3rd-party apps?

[ringemup]

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!
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