Display field choice as part of model string name

Question

From the django documentation, what if I had

GENDER_CHOICES = (
    (\'M\', \'Male\'),
    (\'F\', \'Female\'),
)

class Person(models.Model):
    name = mod         


        

Answer 1

Use get_gender_display():

return u"%s [%s]" % (self.name, self.get_gender_display())

Note, if you're not using Python 3+ you should be defining __unicode__ rather than __str__.