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Python Django Basics Final Details Add a field to Article to reference the Writer

Anusha Rao
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Anusha Rao
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Posted by Anusha Rao
Anusha Rao
Courses Plus Student 468 Points

We need to be able to associate a Writer with an Article. Add a ForeignKey field to the Article model to link it to the

I don't understand what to do 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


class Writer(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    email = models.EmailField()
    bio = models.TextField()

1 Answer

Mduduzi Frederick Dube
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
8,886 Points
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
Mduduzi Frederick Dube
8,886 Points

Halo Rao hope I find you well, You only need to create another row under your Article model, give it the name writer = models. *** quoting Article means 'Article' so your code must look something like

writer = models.ForeignKey('Writer')