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

This is a little ugly, but I think it should work:

entities = Entity.objects.all()
for entity in entities:
   try:
       print entity.team
   except:
       print entity.athlete

Check out http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.0/topics/db/models/#id7 for more on multi-table inheritance. Just be careful, because the Django ORM is inevitably a leaky abstraction and things you might normally do with objects can get you in trouble, or do unexpected things.