Polymorphism in Django

Question

I have the following models. How do I get access to the unicode of the inheriting tables (Team and Athete) from the Entity table? I\'m trying to display a l

Answer 1

From pure Python, you can use the isinstance function:

class Entity:
    def __init__(self):
        if isinstance(self, Team):
            print 'is team'
        elif isinstance(self, Athlete):
            print 'is athlete'

class Team(Entity):
    def __unicode__(self):
        return 'Team'

class Athlete(Entity):
    def __unicode__(self):
        return 'Athlete'