Entries published on November 2, 2007

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Handle choices the right way

A lot of common use cases involve a model field which needs to accept values from a restricted set of choices; for example, a field for selecting a US state should, logically, only allow values which correspond to actual US states. In Django’s ORM, this is represented by using the “choices” argument when defining the field, and generally this provides a fairly easy solution.

But it’s not always perfect: while string-based values (such as those for a US state field, which are — in Django’s implementation — simply two-letter postal abbreviations like “VA” or “KS”) work …

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