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Python Django Basics Model Administration First Model

Posted by Gregory James
Gregory James
6,537 Points

Article

I am confused as to what I am supposed to do... I feel like I am close but I don't quite understand the question.

articles/models.py 
from django.db import models

# Create your models here
class Article(models.Model):
    writer = models.headline()
    length = models.CharField(max_length=255)

2 Answers

Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points

Whenever I have trouble with prompts, I like to write the prompts in the comments and iterative work through the problem using the following steps:

  1. Write the prompt has comments.
  2. Fill in what you know/can do.
  3. Find out about what you don't know.
  4. Understand how they fit together.

In this case it'd be:

from django.db import models

# Create a model named Article
#   that has a headline attribute
#     Article.headline
#       should be a CharField with a max_length of 255.

and then just fill in as much as you can :

from django.db import models

# Create a model named Article
class Article(models.Model):
#   that has a headline attribute
#     Article.headline
#       should be a CharField with a max_length of 255.
    headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
Gregory James
Gregory James
6,537 Points

thank you for the clarity. I still have a question. I scoured the internet to find out what a headline attribute is and how it is relevant. Can you give me that bit of information in an example that I can reference?

Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points
Cheo R
Cheo R
37,150 Points

There's this and you can always look up the python docs.