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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

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.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Custom model admin classes


The changes we've made so far-blank=True, null=True and verbose_name-are really model-level changes, not admin-level changes. That is, these changes are fundamentally a part of the model and just so happen to be used by the admin site; there's nothing admin-specific about them.

Beyond these, the Django admin site offers a wealth of options that let you customize how the admin site works for a particular model. Such options live in ModelAdmin classes, which are classes that contain configuration for a specific model in a specific admin site instance.

Customizing change lists

Let's dive into admin customization by specifying the fields that are displayed on the change list for our Author model. By default, the change list displays the result of __str__() for each object. In Chapter 4, Models, we defined the __str__() method for Author objects to display the first name and last name together:

class Author(models.Model): 
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length...
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