Re: Accessing a field's verbose_name

On 5/08/2015 12:53 AM, Déborah Leder wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, Mike.
>
> However, I have just tried it and it doesn't seem to work for me either...
>
> Your code :
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> self.__class__()._meta.get_field('{0}'.format(field_name)).verbose_name
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> gives the exact same result as
> |
> self._meta.get_field(field_name).verbose_name

Well that's a clue. The problem must be elsewhere. I think that API was
implemented in Django 1.7 because it works for me in 1.7

field_name is a string identical with the field name in the model. And
self must be an instance of the model with the field.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/meta/#django.db.models.options.Options.get_field

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