Django: Display Choice Value

Question

models.py:

class Person(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=200)
    CATEGORY_CHOICES = (
        (\'M\', \'Male\'),
              


        

Answer 1

Others have pointed out that a get_FOO_display method is what you need. I'm using this:

def get_type(self):
    return [i[1] for i in Item._meta.get_field('type').choices if i[0] == self.type][0]

which iterates over all of the choices that a particular item has until it finds the one that matches the items type