Django “xxxxxx Object” display customization in admin action sidebar

Question

I would like to change the default behavior of how the admin recent changes sidebar displays the name of \"objects\" added. Refer to the picture below:

Answer 1

__unicode__ does do that. Your model should look something like this:

class SomeModel(models.Model):
    def __unicode__(self):
       return 'Policy: ' + self.name

On Python 3 you need to use __str__:

def __str__(self):
   return 'Policy: ' + self.name