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

The answers mentioning __str__ and __unicode__ methods are correct. As stated in the docs however, since version 1.6 (I think), you can use the python_2_unicode_compatible decorator for both Python 2 and Python 3:

from __future__ import unicode_literals
from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible

@python_2_unicode_compatible
class MyClass(models.Model):
    def __str__(self):
        return "Instance of my class"

You can use the above in non-Model objects as well.