Set Django IntegerField by choices=… name

Question

When you have a model field with a choices option you tend to have some magic values associated with human readable names. Is there in Django a convenient way to set these f

Answer 1

As of Django 3.0, you can use:

class ThingPriority(models.IntegerChoices):
    LOW = 0, 'Low'
    NORMAL = 1, 'Normal'
    HIGH = 2, 'High'


class Thing(models.Model):
    priority = models.IntegerField(default=ThingPriority.LOW, choices=ThingPriority.choices)

# then in your code
thing = get_my_thing()
thing.priority = ThingPriority.HIGH