Printing Objects in Django

Question

So I\'ve connected Django to a pre-existing database successfully (inspect, validate and sync) and I\'ve created an app and a project and all that (I\'m reading the Django b

Answer 1

UPDATE: In Python 3.x, use __str__ instead of __unicode__

What you are seeing is a list of Artist model instances. Your values are in a python object. If you would like to make the representation of those instances more helpful, you should define the __unicode__ method for them to print something useful:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/instances/?from=olddocs#unicode

Its not a placeholder, its the actual object's representation, converted to unicode.