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Python Django Forms Model Forms Editing Questions

igsm '
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igsm '
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What does question.truefalsequestion mean?

Hi,

When we do the following:

question = question.truefalsequestion

What does it mean? Where do we take truefalsequestion from?

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Ryan S
Ryan S
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Ryan S
Ryan S
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Hi Igor,

That is a good question and was something that I got confused with as well. The thing with multi-table inheritance is that the name of the related models will automatically become a lower-cased attribute of the base Model from which they inherit.

For example, in this case we have a Question model, then 2 models named MultipleChoiceQuestion and TrueFalseQuestion that relate to Question through MTI. So if we get a Question object, we are able to access either type of Question by its lowercased name. I don't remember this being explained in the Django courses. I had to look it up in the docs.

Hope this clears things up.

igsm '
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igsm '
igsm '
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Excellent! Thanks a lot! I assumed it too and your explanation makes it totally clear now.