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Python Django Basics Django Templates Add a Writer model

Add a new model, Writer, and give it a name attribute that's a CharField with a max_length of 255.

i am stuck here

articles/models.py
from django.db import models


class Article(models.Model):
    headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    publish_date = models.DateTimeField()
    content = models.TextField()


    def __str__(self):
        return self.headline

2 Answers

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Misheck,

The Article model's definition provides us with an example of what the syntax is to create a new model. You may also notice that what you need to do to declare the name attribute properly is similar to how the headline attribute was defined for the Article model (essentially, the headline and name attributes are character-based, and allow for up to 255 characters to be entered for them, data-wise.)

from django.db import models


class Article(models.Model):
    headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    publish_date = models.DateTimeField()
    content = models.TextField()    

    def __str__(self):
        return self.headline

class Writer(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)

Hope this helps!

CJ Marchione you are the best. thanks it worked