From 5ebf6fd8918f843756a73581bb88f570c4f5d117 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Graham Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:27:09 -0400 Subject: [1.8.x] Fixed #24323 -- Documented @admin.register can't be used with super(XXXAdmin in __init__(). Backport of 4cd2bdae07ac5561fdae0eede58c68df4dfcc780 from master --- docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt index 29578f6588..9e69138e6e 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/admin/index.txt @@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ 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 ------------------------ -- cgit v1.3