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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Customizing field labels


On the admin site's edit forms, each field's label is generated from its model field name. The algorithm is simple: Django just replaces underscores with spaces and capitalizes the first character, so, for example, the Book model's publication_date field has the label Publication date.

However, field names don't always lend themselves to nice admin field labels, so in some cases you might want to customize a label. You can do this by specifying verbose_name in the appropriate model field. For example, here's how we can change the label of the Author.email field to e-mail, with a hyphen:

class Author(models.Model): 
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length=30) 
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length=40) 
    email = models.EmailField(blank=True, verbose_name ='e-mail')

Make that change and reload the server, and you should see the field's new label on the author edit form. Note that you shouldn't capitalize the first letter of a verbose_name...