Django: Faking a field in the admin interface?

Question

I have a model, Foo. It has several database properties, and several properties that are calculated based on a combination of factors. I would like to present these

Answer 1

You can use the @property decorator in your model (Python >= 2.4):

class Product(models.Model):

    @property
    def ranking(self):
        return 1

"ranking" can then be used in list_display:

class ProductAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('ranking', 'asin', 'title')