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Savious Munyaradzi Ngundu
16,920 PointsWe want to have multiple types of Articles so we need to make our existing Article model abstract. Can you do that fo
help
from django.db import models
class Article(models.Model):
headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
publish_date = models.DateTimeField()
content = models.TextField()
writer = models.ForeignKey('Writer')
def __str__(self):
return self.headline
class Writer(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
email = models.EmailField()
bio = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
return self.name
def mailto(self):
return '{} <{}>'.format(self.name, self.email)
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Jasper Maposa
26,918 PointsSet the abstract to true under the Meta.
from django.db import models
class Article(models.Model):
headline = models.CharField(max_length=255)
publish_date = models.DateTimeField()
content = models.TextField()
writer = models.ForeignKey('Writer')
class Meta:
abstract = True
def __str__(self):
return self.headline
class Writer(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
email = models.EmailField()
bio = models.TextField()
def __str__(self):
return self.name
def mailto(self):
return '{} <{}>'.format(self.name, self.email)