How to add a calculated field to a Django model

Question

I have a simple Employee model that includes firstname, lastname and middlename fields.

On the admin side and li

Answer 1

That's not something you do as a field. Even if that syntax worked, it would only give the value when the class was defined, not at the time you access it. You should do this as a method, and you can use the @property decorator to make it look like a normal attribute.

@property
def name(self):
    return ''.join(
        [self.lastname,' ,', self.firstname, ' ', self.middlename])

self.lastname etc appear as just their values, so no need to call any other method to convert them.