[FIXED] Django Choices Tuple

Issue

I'm not sure if this has been answered before but here goes

I have this code

ITEM = [
    ('Fruits', (
            ('a', 'Apple'),
            ('g', 'Grape'),
            ('m', 'Mango')
        )
    ),

    ('Vegetables', (
            ('b', 'Broccoli'),
            ('p', 'Peanut'),
            ('t', 'Tomato')
        )
    ),
]

With that I'm trying to access the human-readable version of the tuples in my model like this

item = models.CharField(max_length=50, choices=ITEM)

However when I submitted this field from django admin page, it submits let's say 'a' instead of 'Apple'

How can I make sure that I submitted 'Apple' into the database to be displayed in HTML later on?

Solution

You can render the value with get_fieldname_display ^[Django-doc]. As is specified in the documentation:

For every field that has choices set, the object will have a get_FOO_display() method, where FOO is the name of the field. This method returns the "human-readable" value of the field.

So if you later in your template want to render the human-readable value for the item field, you render this with:

{{ my_object.get_item_display }}

Answered By - willeM_ Van Onsem