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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-09-26 20:27:09 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2015-09-28 07:20:46 -0400
commit4cd2bdae07ac5561fdae0eede58c68df4dfcc780 (patch)
tree6ac46d12e6275468e4b24dc6ee22c261d0934697
parentb7ade645290ecf45530fe7211f8f759fc9cf9971 (diff)
Fixed #24323 -- Documented @admin.register can't be used with super(XXXAdmin in __init__().
-rw-r--r--docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
index 93af6e161b..6916498660 100644
--- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ The register decorator
class PersonAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
pass
+ You can't use this decorator if you have to reference your model admin
+ class in its ``__init__()`` method, e.g.
+ ``super(PersonAdmin, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)``. If you are using
+ Python 3 and don't have to worry about supporting Python 2, you can
+ use ``super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)`` . Otherwise, you'll have to use
+ ``admin.site.register()`` instead of this decorator.
+
Discovery of admin files
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