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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2008-04-01 00:28:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2008-04-01 00:28:15 +0000 |
| commit | 4efe9675c5fd5a030737d957b3588184f06117fe (patch) | |
| tree | b3ea195f6a3a281428c9cd5789e386493edc5379 /docs/newforms.txt | |
| parent | 70913a2c4358de7341525ab0e913fafd213022c2 (diff) | |
queryset-refactor: Merged from trunk up to [7388].
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/queryset-refactor@7396 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/newforms.txt b/docs/newforms.txt index 533ff75185..d07f7f9dc3 100644 --- a/docs/newforms.txt +++ b/docs/newforms.txt @@ -1549,12 +1549,14 @@ additional required argument: ``ModelChoiceField`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Allows the selection of a single model object, suitable for representing a -foreign key. The method receives an object as an argument and must return a -string to represent it. +Allows the selection of a single model object, suitable for +representing a foreign key. -The labels for the choice field call the ``__unicode__`` method of the model to -generate string representations. To provide custom labels, subclass ``ModelChoiceField`` and override ``label_for_model``:: +The ``__unicode__`` method of the model will be called to generate +string representations of the objects for use in the field's choices; +to provide customized representations, subclass ``ModelChoiceField`` +and override ``label_for_model``. This method will receive model +object, and should return a string suitable for representing it:: class MyModelChoiceField(ModelChoiceField): def label_from_instance(self, obj): @@ -1563,9 +1565,10 @@ generate string representations. To provide custom labels, subclass ``ModelChoic ``ModelMultipleChoiceField`` ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Allows the selection of one or more model objects, suitable for representing a -many-to-many relation. As with ``ModelChoiceField``, you can use -``label_from_instance`` to customize the object labels. +Allows the selection of one or more model objects, suitable for +representing a many-to-many relation. As with ``ModelChoiceField``, +you can use ``label_from_instance`` to customize the object +representations. Creating custom fields ---------------------- |