Re: I am getting TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, long found. Please help.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Marquez
<daniel.marquez0112@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, I should've caught that. Thanks guys. However, since I needed a
> string, what I did was add "default=x" to the integer field as
> follows:
>
> class Phone(models.Model):
>        phonenumber = models.IntegerField(default=10)
>        pub_date = models.DateTimeField('date published')
>        def __unicode__(self):
>                return self.phonenumber
>
> and it worked.
>

That is still not returning unicode from the unicode method. When you
return a non unicode object, you should do something like this:

def __unicode__(self):
return unicode(self.phonenumber)

Also, as Shawn said, you should use a CharField for your phone number
field. If you are collecting phone numbers for a specific country,
there are localized form fields for certain countries to ensure users
enter the data in the correct format - nothing worse than 'sdffdhj'
being allowed as a phone number!

Cheers

Tom

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