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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt index 1fc81924b0..ef857984df 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/contenttypes.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ The ``ContentType`` model .. class:: ContentType Each instance of :class:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType` - has three fields which, taken together, uniquely describe an installed + has two fields which, taken together, uniquely describe an installed model: .. attribute:: app_label @@ -74,12 +74,19 @@ The ``ContentType`` model The name of the model class. + Additionally, the following property is available: + .. attribute:: name - The human-readable name of the model. This is taken from the + The human-readable name of the content type. This is taken from the :attr:`verbose_name <django.db.models.Field.verbose_name>` attribute of the model. +.. versionchanged:: 1.8 + + Before Django 1.8, the ``name`` property was a real field on the + ``ContentType`` model. + Let's look at an example to see how this works. If you already have the :mod:`~django.contrib.contenttypes` application installed, and then add :mod:`the sites application <django.contrib.sites>` to your @@ -96,9 +103,6 @@ created with the following values: * :attr:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType.model` will be set to ``'site'``. -* :attr:`~django.contrib.contenttypes.models.ContentType.name` - will be set to ``'site'``. - .. _the verbose_name attribute: ../model-api/#verbose_name Methods on ``ContentType`` instances |