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

I'd probably set up the reverse-lookup dict once and for all, but if I hadn't I'd just use:

thing.priority = next(value for value, name in Thing.PRIORITIES
                      if name=='Normal')

which seems simpler than building the dict on the fly just to toss it away again;-).