On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 09:38:55 Paul Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > You mean you want a declaration for one field that says "this field is  
> > the __unicode__"-representation?
> 
> Yep
> 
> > What is the behavior for several such columns having that attribute?
> 
> Exception when defining the class

Which would make the point for defining it on the class. Then one avoids that 
error-case all together. 

> 
> > How is coercion/decoding handled, which btw your example  
> > lacks?
> 
> Normally you'd use a unicode column and avoid this issue. If you use a
> string column, then it does the default python conversion, just like
> my example.

Which might fail.


What is your actual use-case btw? Is it really for converting to unicode, or 
more to have some declarative repr-functionality?  That I'd like to see.

Diez

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