how to override the verbose name of a superclass model field in django

Question

Let\'s say that I have a model Foo that inherits from SuperFoo:

class SuperFoo(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(\'name of SuperFoo instance\', max_         


        

Answer 1

A simple hack I have used is:

class SuperFoo(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField('name of SuperFoo instance', max_length=50)
    ...
    class Meta: 
        abstract = True

class Foo(SuperFoo):
    ... # do something that changes verbose_name of name field of SuperFoo
Foo._meta.get_field('name').verbose_name = 'Whatever'