Django templates: verbose version of a choice

Question

I have a model:

from django.db import models

CHOICES = (
    (\'s\', \'Glorious spam\'),
    (\'e\', \'Fabulous eggs\'),
)

class MealOrder(models.Model):
          


        

Answer 1

Add to your models.py one simple function:

def get_display(key, list):
    d = dict(list)
    if key in d:
        return d[key]
    return None

Now, you can get verbose value of choice fields like that:

class MealOrder(models.Model):
    meal = models.CharField(max_length=8, choices=CHOICES)

    def meal_verbose(self):
        return get_display(self.meal, CHOICES)    

Upd.: I'm not sure, is that solution “pythonic” and “django-way” enough or not, but it works. :)