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Defining Model String Representation

In Django, the __str__ method determines how a model instance is displayed in the admin interface and the shell. Without it, you would only see generic labels like 'Article object (1)'.

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from django.db import models
 
class Article(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=200)
 
    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

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Breakdown

class Article(models.Model):

Defines a new database model named Article.

def __str__(self):

A special Python method that returns a human-readable string for the object.

return self.title

Returns the article's title to be used as its display name.

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