Django Project Blueprints

Showing the car names

If you remember in the previous chapter, we looked at the __str__ method on a model class. I also said that Django uses this method wherever it needs to display a string representation of the model. Well, that's exactly what the Django admin does in the list view for the Car model: it displays the string representation for it. Let's make the list more user friendly by changing the string representation to something that the user can understand. In the frontend/models.py file, add this __str__ method to the Car model class:

def __str__(self):
    return self.name

Let's see what the list of Car objects looks now:

That's a much better ...